Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter. The newsletter is a collection of advertising, content, marketing and technology stories that I'm reading from across the web.
Darren Herman
On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company's offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves…
Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work. The work has rattled the contract employees, who are not told where the audio was…
Don Emmert / AFP / Getty Images The New York City Fire Department is investigating whether a first responder posted about Jeffrey Epstein's death on a notorious internet message board prior to officials announcing it to the public, BuzzFeed News…
Wall Street Journal
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Benjamin Mullin
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CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. reached an agreement in principle to merge, according to people familiar with the situation, a deal the media companies hope will put them on stronger footing to compete with larger rivals in a business buffeted by cable…
By David Frankel, Managing Partner & Joe Flaherty, Director of Content & Community The Bay Area has been the best place to build a startup for the last two decades. Some experts are questioning if that's still true, but it's clearly not the only…
