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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 Feb 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Stock up in after hours

Twitter beats on earnings but misses on user growth

Twitter’s stock rose slightly today after the company announced its fourth quarter earnings. It beat by a significant amount, although it missed in terms…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 29, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Not a big deal

Google misses slightly on fourth quarter earnings and stock dips

Google’s fourth quarter earnings missed Wall Street expectations today, but only by a slight amount. The stock dipped down 3 percent in after…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 28, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Up, up, and away

Here’s why Facebook got away with a 335 percent hike in ad prices

Ads dominated the discussion during Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings call this Wednesday. COO Sheryl Sandberg told analysts that the company is charging 335 percent…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 27, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Leaving messaging behind

Can media do for Snapchat what it did for Facebook?

Snapchat is distancing itself from its core messaging feature with its new Discover product. Instead of offering new communication tools, it’s focusing…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 27, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Investors are pleased

Yahoo stock rises as it turns Alibaba investment into separate company

Yahoo is splitting its remaining Alibaba shares into a separate company called SpinCo. The move will help Yahoo avoid the tax pitfalls of the investment.…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 20, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Are ad sales struggling?

Snapchat’s chief money man left the company. But why now?

A week after news broke that Snapchat was charging $750,000 for one day of ephemeral ad placement, Snapchat’s head of revenue Mike Randall is out,…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 19, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Really, $500 million?

Uber’s raking in money in SF, but the story is complicated

Uber is now on a pace to make $500 million a year in revenue in the San Francisco market alone, according to…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Jan 14, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Markups are out, fees are in

On the way to $220M in funding, Instacart quietly changed its business model

In its early days, grocery store delivery startup Instacart made its money two ways: Through delivery fees and product markups. It charged…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Dec 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The year of reckoning

Will Pinterest prove its worth in 2015?

The next year will be the most important one of Pinterest’s life. Until now, the company has focused on its application and its audience,…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Dec 19, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Time to make more money

Medium hires its first head of content advertising

Medium has hired someone to develop its native advertising partnerships, the first such role for the company. As Mathew Ingram previously reported,…

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Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Dec 1, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Money is pouring into media, but will it find the value it seeks?

Vox Media has closed a financing round that values the company at almost $400 million, and BuzzFeed is valued at twice that level -- but will the funds that made these bets see enough of a return to justify those numbers?…

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Media, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Nov 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

The numbers behind Jill Abramson and Steven Brill’s new media venture don’t add up

Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, is launching a new journalism startup with media entrepreneur Steven Brill that the two say will pay writers $100,000 or more per article. But many are skeptical of the venture's economic viability…

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Media
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 27, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Despite strong revenue, investors aren’t pleased with Twitter’s Q3. Here’s why

Twitter's user growth rate is on the decline which has shareholders worried about the future of the company. On the earnings call, CEO Dick Costolo said, "It's more critical than ever that we increase our pace of execution."…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 21, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Marissa Mayer defends her acquisition strategy by pointing at $200 million in mobile revenue

Yahoo's mobile effort is starting to bear fruit. Will it save the company?…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Oct 17, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Here come the ads: It’s business time at Snapchat

Will Snapchat be able to make money? The company is ready to learn the answer.…

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Work & Collaboration
Carmel DeAmicis Sep 25, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ello investor, co-founder: Funding or not, we hate ads and we want to “shift values”

How will the popular new social network maintain its ad-free philosophy if it’s pressured to bring in venture level returns?…

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

Is an ad-based business model the original sin of the web — and if so, what do we do about it?

Ethan Zuckerman of MIT, who helped develop the first online pop-up ad, argues that an ad-based model is responsible for the privacy-invading nature of the modern web -- but even if that's true, how do we fix it?…

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Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Jul 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Twitter may be considering a Facebook-style feed — but would that help its growth or derail it?

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo suggested during the company's earnings call that it is considering algorithmically-filtered features similar to Facebook's newsfeed, but some users say if it implements a Facebook-style approach they will leave…

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Technology
Carmel DeAmicis Jul 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Snapchat reportedly in funding talks that value it at $10 billion, as much as Airbnb and Dropbox

If a $3 billion acquisition offer shocked you, prepare to faint at the latest Snapchat news: The company is reportedly in financing talks that would value it at $10 billion. Investors are placing their bets that Snapchat is the next Facebook...or at least the next WhatsApp.…

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Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Jul 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Amazon: Hachette spat can be fixed with lower ebook pricing

The online retail giant says it will be happy to stick with the 30 percent cut it already gets from Hachette ebook sales if the publisher agrees to slash its ebook pricing, a move which Amazon claims would be central to the future of reading.…

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

Newspaper companies need to stop lying to themselves, says longtime newspaper editor

Former newspaper editor David Boardman says too many newspaper companies and industry executives are fooling themselves by pretending that their business is better than it really is. They need to face reality, he says -- and maybe even stop printing newspapers altogether…

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Media
Lauren Hockenson Jun 26, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Foursquare to charge some businesses for access to its data

Foursquare is beginning to capitalize on its rich location data by charging a small percentage of users.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Lauren Hockenson May 5, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Tumblr’s David Karp has “no regrets” about Yahoo acquisition

Microblogging network Tumblr (s yhoo) was arguably the highest-profile acquisition made by Yahoo under CEO Marissa Mayer. So how are things going…

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