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Days After CFO's Exit, BuzzFeed President Marcela Martin Announces To Resign
BuzzFeed's Marcela Martin has announced her intention to resign as president effective Jan. 12 to pursue other opportunities, the digital media firm said on Friday.
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Turmoil At BuzzFeed, Vice Signals Crisis In The World Of Free Digital Media
With the closure of BuzzFeed News and bankruptcy looming at Vice, the once promising world of free digital media finds itself at a crossroads, seeing ad revenues dry up at the same time as disappointed investors begin walking away.
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Vice Media Headed For Bankruptcy, Seeks Buyer: Report
Five companies are reportedly interested in purchasing Vice in the event of its bankruptcy.
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BuzzFeed To Close News Operations
BuzzFeed announced Thursday that it was shutting its news division as part of cost-saving cuts, signalling the end of one of the most notable news websites of the internet era.
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Facebook Cracks Down on Real-User Networks Over Harmful Activities
Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts.
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Tecno Smartphones Took Data, Money From Users in Africa in 2018 With Preloaded Malware: Report
Tecno, a Chinese smartphone brand that is a subsidiary of Transsion, has reportedly been found to steal user data as well as money, with pre-installed malware on its phones. Mobile security service provider Secure-D and BuzzFeed News reported that some smartphone models shipped by the company carried malware that worked in the background, covertly ...
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TikTok's New "Secret" User Once Tried To Buy The App, Says Report
Weeks after attacking short video-sharing app TikTok saying it censored political protest, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted on the Chinese application, a news report said. Mr Zuckerberg is reportedly on the app via a "secret account"; his not yet verified handle is "@finkd" - the same as the Facebook co-founder's Twitter handle, BuzzFe...
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Google Removes Popular App From Play Store After Reported Large Scale Ad Fraud
BuzzFeed News reports that the fraudulent DU Group apps used to draw ad clicks even they weren’t running in the background draining battery and consuming data.
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BuzzFeed, HuffPost To Shed More Than 200 Jobs In New Round Of Layoffs
America's free online news heavyweights, BuzzFeed and HuffPost, this week were rocked by a new wave of layoffs, a sign of an advertising-dependent economic model under threat.
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FBI Probe Team Didn't Know Extent Of Allegations Against Trump Lawyer
When a BuzzFeed reporter first sought comment on the news outlet's explosive report that President Donald Trump had directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, the spokesman for special counsel Robert Mueller III treated the request as he would almost any other story.
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Report On Trump Telling Lawyer To Lie To Congress Not Accurate: Official
An explosive report from BuzzFeed News alleging that US President Donald Trump directed his lawyer to lie to Congress is "not accurate," a spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office said Friday, a rare statement disputing a news report.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges Bloomberg to Retract China Spy Chip Story
"There is no truth in their story about Apple," Cook told BuzzFeed News in an interview with the online publication.
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Elon Musk Calls Thai Rescuer "Child Rapist Who Took A 12-Year-Old Bride"
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again berated a British diver involved in the rescue of 12 children and their coach from a Thailand cave, as a "child rapist", the media reported.
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Buzzfeed Reporter 'Effectively' Ejected From China
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Wednesday that the foreign ministry had "effectively" ejected BuzzFeed News's Beijing bureau chief from the country after declining to renew her visa.
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Apple Removes Podcasts Of Man Who Said September 11 Attacks Were Staged
Most of U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's podcasts from his right-wing media platform Infowars have been removed from Apple's iTunes and podcast apps, the media news website BuzzFeed quoted a company spokesman as saying on Sunday.
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Days After CFO's Exit, BuzzFeed President Marcela Martin Announces To Resign
BuzzFeed's Marcela Martin has announced her intention to resign as president effective Jan. 12 to pursue other opportunities, the digital media firm said on Friday.
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Turmoil At BuzzFeed, Vice Signals Crisis In The World Of Free Digital Media
With the closure of BuzzFeed News and bankruptcy looming at Vice, the once promising world of free digital media finds itself at a crossroads, seeing ad revenues dry up at the same time as disappointed investors begin walking away.
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Vice Media Headed For Bankruptcy, Seeks Buyer: Report
Five companies are reportedly interested in purchasing Vice in the event of its bankruptcy.
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BuzzFeed To Close News Operations
BuzzFeed announced Thursday that it was shutting its news division as part of cost-saving cuts, signalling the end of one of the most notable news websites of the internet era.
-
Facebook Cracks Down on Real-User Networks Over Harmful Activities
Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts.
-
Tecno Smartphones Took Data, Money From Users in Africa in 2018 With Preloaded Malware: Report
Tecno, a Chinese smartphone brand that is a subsidiary of Transsion, has reportedly been found to steal user data as well as money, with pre-installed malware on its phones. Mobile security service provider Secure-D and BuzzFeed News reported that some smartphone models shipped by the company carried malware that worked in the background, covertly ...
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TikTok's New "Secret" User Once Tried To Buy The App, Says Report
Weeks after attacking short video-sharing app TikTok saying it censored political protest, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted on the Chinese application, a news report said. Mr Zuckerberg is reportedly on the app via a "secret account"; his not yet verified handle is "@finkd" - the same as the Facebook co-founder's Twitter handle, BuzzFe...
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Google Removes Popular App From Play Store After Reported Large Scale Ad Fraud
BuzzFeed News reports that the fraudulent DU Group apps used to draw ad clicks even they weren’t running in the background draining battery and consuming data.
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BuzzFeed, HuffPost To Shed More Than 200 Jobs In New Round Of Layoffs
America's free online news heavyweights, BuzzFeed and HuffPost, this week were rocked by a new wave of layoffs, a sign of an advertising-dependent economic model under threat.
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FBI Probe Team Didn't Know Extent Of Allegations Against Trump Lawyer
When a BuzzFeed reporter first sought comment on the news outlet's explosive report that President Donald Trump had directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, the spokesman for special counsel Robert Mueller III treated the request as he would almost any other story.
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Report On Trump Telling Lawyer To Lie To Congress Not Accurate: Official
An explosive report from BuzzFeed News alleging that US President Donald Trump directed his lawyer to lie to Congress is "not accurate," a spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office said Friday, a rare statement disputing a news report.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges Bloomberg to Retract China Spy Chip Story
"There is no truth in their story about Apple," Cook told BuzzFeed News in an interview with the online publication.
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Elon Musk Calls Thai Rescuer "Child Rapist Who Took A 12-Year-Old Bride"
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again berated a British diver involved in the rescue of 12 children and their coach from a Thailand cave, as a "child rapist", the media reported.
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Buzzfeed Reporter 'Effectively' Ejected From China
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Wednesday that the foreign ministry had "effectively" ejected BuzzFeed News's Beijing bureau chief from the country after declining to renew her visa.
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Apple Removes Podcasts Of Man Who Said September 11 Attacks Were Staged
Most of U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's podcasts from his right-wing media platform Infowars have been removed from Apple's iTunes and podcast apps, the media news website BuzzFeed quoted a company spokesman as saying on Sunday.
