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Frank J. Ohlhorst Mar 15, 2017 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Yahoo's Breach cost $350M

Businesses Must Get Better at Breach Detection

Information system breaches are bad enough. However, breaches that go undetected prove to be much worse. Take for example Yahoo’s revelation that…

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Security & Risk
Mathew Ingram Feb 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Platform owners always win

Are media companies building another house of cards on Snapchat?

SnapChat has convinced media companies like CNN and Yahoo and Vice to be part of its new Discover feature, and they were easy to convince because of SnapChat's 200M-plus millennial audience. But who ultimately benefits from these deals?…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 30, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- But he's not concerned

Kik CEO: “Hey internet are you listening? Messaging has peaked”

It has certainly been an interesting month for messaging apps in the U.S. Around the same time the New York Times penned…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 22, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The popular platisher trend

Snapchat hiring journalists to become its own publisher

Not content to rely on major brands for its new media exploration section, Snapchat is also planning on making its own according…

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Media
Carmel DeAmicis Dec 15, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- #SFSoccerMoms unite

Kik’s new hashtags reveal the potential of a chat network

Kik continues to ship new features for its chatting application. Following on the heels of Promoted Chats and its in-app browser comes the…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Nov 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

The next WeChat is hiding in Canada and eyeing the U.S.

Four years since its launch, Kik is positioning itself as America’s version of WeChat, the messaging behemoth of China. It believes it has the right product (text messaging, the old-fashioned kind) and the right audience (almost half of U.S. youth) to become a proper mobile first platform.…

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Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Oct 26, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

New York Times invests in Dutch “iTunes for news” company

Blendle, a Dutch startup that sells access to articles from media outlets in the Netherlands and elsewhere on a per-article basis, has closed a $3.8M Series A funding round led by the New York Times and German media giant Axel Springer…

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Media
Mathew Ingram Oct 15, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

News Deeply adds another topic-specific site to its network by launching Ebola Deeply

News Deeply, a network of topic-specific sites founded by former ABC News foreign correspondent Lara Setrakian, has just launched its latest addition: Ebola Deeply, a site dedicated to coverage of the disease and its impact on society…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Oct 14, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

NYT asks readers to help identify print ads, using a platform for crowdsourcing called Hive

The New York Times' research and development lab has launched a new project asking readers for help in identifying old advertisements from its print archive -- and the project is the first to be built on a new open-source platform for crowdsourcing called Hive…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 14, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Snapchat reportedly plans to become a mobile platform, much like China’s WeChat

A recent report says Snapchat wants to become a hub for other services. We can look to another messaging beast -- WeChat -- for an idea of what that might look like.…

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Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Oct 14, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

BuzzFeed’s choice of publisher says a lot about how the site looks at media

BuzzFeed's new publisher is not a veteran media executive or an MBA with a business background, but someone who specializes in looking at how data can influence the way that media is created and shared -- a crucial skill for the current media economy…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Oct 6, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

A Washington Post magazine-style Kindle app sounds like a win for the paper and Amazon

Businessweek is reporting that a magazine-style Washington Post app will come pre-loaded on the new Kindle Fire, a deal that has potential benefits for both the struggling newspaper and for its owner's other company -- Amazon…

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Media
Mathew Ingram Sep 16, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Nick Denton admits he was overly ambitious with Kinja, but insists the platform is on track

Even as it announces a move to a swanky uptown New York office, Gawker Media remains a work in progress, says founder Nick Denton -- especially the somewhat balky commenting/blogging platform known as Kinja that was supposed to reinvent online media…

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Media
Mathew Ingram Sep 15, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Why Microsoft is basically stealing Minecraft by buying it for only $2.5 billion

Some might wonder why Microsoft would pay $2.5 billion for a game with low-res graphics and no real plot-line -- but the reality is that Minecraft is far more of an open platform for creativity than it is a simple game, and is likely worth much more than $2.5B…

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Media, Technology, Video, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Sep 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

IndieWeb advocates launch Known so bloggers can be social and still control their content

The founders of Known have launched an open-source web publishing tool that uses a number of IndieWeb standards to give users control over their content, instead of handing it and all the related data over to proprietary platforms like Facebook and Twitter…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Aug 20, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Promiscuous media: News needs to go where the people are, not the other way around

Media companies like BuzzFeed, NowThis News and Fusion are increasingly creating content that is designed to live on other apps and services rather than just including links to their websites. This promiscuous approach to media is a smart strategy in an increasingly crowded environment…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Jul 31, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Wunderlist becomes a platform, aiming to be “the home of all the world’s lists”

Wunderlist 3 is a faster, slicker, more collaboration-friendly iteration of the popular productivity app. But it's also the first step in a strategic shift for Berlin's 6Wunderkinder.…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Mathew Ingram Jun 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Medium adds tech heavyweight Steven Levy as it builds its digital magazine/platform

Wired staffer and tech-journalism veteran Steven Levy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the magazine to join Medium, the platform/magazine founded by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams, and will be creating a technology hub or vertical for the site…

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Media, Video
Lauren Hockenson Jun 18, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Twitter now supports GIFs on the web, iPhone and Android

After years of not supporting GIFs within the stream, Twitter (s twtr) has finally had a change of heart. On Wednesday, the…

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Technology
Mathew Ingram Jun 9, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Is Medium a platform or a publisher? And is Matter a magazine or a collection? Yes

Medium founder Evan Williams tried to clear up some of the confusion around whether his site is a platform, a publisher or a kind of magazine -- but some of that confusion can't be dispelled because the service has elements of all three. Sometimes it's okay to experiment…

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Media, Video
Mathew Ingram Apr 24, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Facebook launches a newswire so it can help the media — while it competes with them

Facebook has launched a new feature called the FB Newswire that is designed to give media outlets and journalists a real-time feed of news-worthy content. But who benefits most from that kind of relationship -- those news outlets, or Facebook itself?…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Feb 9, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

As the line between platform and publisher continues to blur, who wins and who loses?

The term "platishers" is a terrible one, but Jonathan Glick of Sulia has a point about the increasingly blurred lines between platforms and publishers. The real question is what the duties of those platforms are towards the users who create most of the content…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Feb 5, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Critics say Facebook is erasing pieces of history by deleting pages about the war in Syria

Activists and others involved in the war in Syria say Facebook has been deleting pages created by dissidents and removing content because it violates the social network's standards, and that important information about the conflict is being lost as a result…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Jan 7, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

When tweets become ads, or how Twitter continues to blur the line between speech and publishing

Posting things to Twitter might feel like conversation, but in practice it's a lot more like publishing -- which is how a New York Times movie reviewer's off-hand comment on Twitter turned into a full-page newspaper ad, even though he didn't want it to…

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Technology

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