The Verge
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Andrew J. Hawkins
– Dec 7, 2019, 11:18 AM
Unicorn, the electric scooter startup from the co-creator of gadget tracker Tile, is shutting down operations after blowing all its cash on Facebook and Google ads but only receiving 350 orders for its glossy white e-scooters, it claims. In an…
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Adweek
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Patrick Kulp
– Dec 9, 2019, 3:00 AM
Mention of Kara Swisher's name has long intimidated the elite of Silicon Valley, where the preeminent tech journalist is famous for her tenacity and larger-than-life personality. Recode Decode, her thrice-weekly podcast for Vox Media, has extended…
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Stratechery
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Ben Thompson
– Dec 9, 2019, 5:41 AM
A prompt for writing this piece is a conference I will be participating in tomorrow entitled Antitrust in Times of Unheaval — A Global Conversation ; you can livestream the conference here. I opened 2017's Defining Aggregators by stating:…
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Content Marketing Institute
– Dec 9, 2019, 3:00 AM
TED Talks lift powerful voices in the world of technology, entertainment, and design. And with more than 2 billion views on YouTube, what began as a simple conference has become an industry. The 18-minute wide-ranging talks are the best place to…
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Marketoonist
– Dec 8, 2019, 9:42 AM
As we transition to a new decade in marketing, it can seem like everything is up for grabs. Long-established marketing concepts are continually challenged. There's a lot of pressure to throw out the old and jump on to the new. In this cartoon, I…
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Business Insider
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Benjamin Goggin
– Sep 17, 2019, 11:44 PM
In the past month, layoffs have hit Spin, ThinkProgress, Rooster Teeth, and others, bringing the total number of media layoffs in 2019 above 7,200, according to Business Insider's tally. The latest cuts followed layoff announcements at BuzzFeed…
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Forbes
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Tim Bajarin
– Dec 9, 2019
As we sit at the end of a decade and begin looking at the next decade in tech, I find that it is worth looking at specific companies with this focus in mind. For almost every company I follow as a professional industry analyst, these last ten years…
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Fast Company
– Dec 9, 2019, 7:00 AM
Back in the 1920s, when Time magazine founder Henry Luce and his partners were coming up with the concept for their new media venture, the idea was to sum up all the news of human interest across politics, science, books, sport, and more, with…
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