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BuzzFeed Acquires Startup Torando Labs To Create Its First Data Engineering Team
BuzzFeed is announcing its first acquisition since it raised a $50 million round from Andreessen Horowitz over the summer — it’s buying Torando Labs, and the Torando team will form the online...
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BuzzFeed Jumps Aboard The Messaging App Train, Starting With WeChat
BuzzFeed’s next step is messaging apps, and it’s teamed up with Tencent to become a media partner on the Chinese firm’s WeChat app, which counts 468 million monthly active users across the world....
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BuzzFeed Expands Mobile Team By Acquiring “Visual Conversation” Startup GoPop
BuzzFeed just announced that it’s acquiring San Francisco startup GoPop. The startup was originally known as Zeega, and it was part of the first class at Matter, the Knight Foundation- and...
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If You Think Tinder Needs More Cute Pets, BuzzFeed Has The App For You
Oh, BuzzFeed. Don’t ever change. The company just released what it says is its second ever mobile app, called Cute Or Not. As you might expect from the name, you’re asked to rate pets as (duh) cute...
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The Dress Debate Was Dumb, But Did It Make Us Dumber?
If you were offline between, say, 7pm and 10pm Eastern last night, boy, things must have seemed real weird when you logged back onto Twitter. Despite what you might have heard, BuzzFeed did not...
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BuzzFeed’s CEO Says Modern Media Is About Pushing Actual Content, Not Links
“Because so many publishers build their businesses on banner ads, they have to get people back to their site to make money” says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. But that misses much of the value of...
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Vine Courts The Embed With High Res Video
Vines just got bigger with a higher quality video upgrade today. A new post on the company blog announced a technical change that allows Vine users to upload the higher-resolution 720p HD video to...
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BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith Says He “Blew It” By Removing Post...
You might have heard about a BuzzFeed article criticizing a “condescending” Dove ad campaign (it asked women to walk through doors marked “beautiful” and “average”) — but in the past couple of days,...
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BuzzFeed Pitches Advertisers On “Pound” Tech That Tracks A Story’s Viral Spread
BuzzFeed is known as the king of viral content, and today it’s sharing more details about a new technology showing how that content actually spreads. By using what it calls Pound (short for Process...
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BuzzFeed Showcases Its Serious Side With A News App And Customizable Alerts
Are you the kind of person who says, “I read BuzzFeed for the news”? Do you secretly wish you didn’t have to wade through all those listsicles and quizzes to get to the serious reporting? Well,...
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I Can Has New CEO? Cheezburger’s Ben Huh Steps Down After 8 Years
After acquiring a tiny little site called I Can Has Cheezburger? in 2007, Ben Huh took it to levels that went way further than the internet. The site, and at one time Huh himself, were a bit of a...
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Did Virtual Reality Just Have Its Google Glass “Shower” Moment?
If you followed the Google Glass saga, you remember that everything started out pretty hunky dory. There was an exciting demo that included people jumping out of a plane. Then there were developers...
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BuzzFeed Signs Partnership With Yahoo Japan
BuzzFeed has signed a joint venture with Yahoo Japan, which until recently was the country’s top search portal before Google gained a slight lead. Read More Source:...
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