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AOL Editor Who Fired Grouper’s Jerry Guo in 2008 Wishes He Had Warned Others
Image via Gadling Betabeat received an email this morning from Grant Martin, Editor-in-Chief at the travel site Gadling, alerting us that Jerry Guo, the notorious Newsweek writer and startup scammer,...
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That Massive ‘Jews Against the Internet’ Rally This Weekend Is Not Very...
Shhhh. Update: Contrary to a previous source, there’s at least one man behind this rally with an email address. The man in charge of the not quite non-existent but ever-elusive press-passes, Eytan...
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Shocker: The Internet Loves Videos of Natural Disasters
News you can use (if you are a hedgehog). Coming soon to a Newsroom episode near you: The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports today that people are increasingly turning...
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The Digg Bang Theory: Can Betaworks Make a Run on Reddit?
Mr. Rose (Photo: flickr.com/joi) In the winter of 2004, soon after the husks of once-great dot-com startups had dried and shriveled, a 27-year-old college dropout named Kevin Rose deployed a barebones...
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Ben Huh’s News Startup Circa Aims to Change the Way Users Consume Mobile News
(Photo: Circa blog) In recent months, LOLcat emperor and Bravo TV star Ben Huh has systematically leaked handfuls of details about his news startup, Circa, to the press. Back in April, Circa raised...
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The New New Tech Writing: Straight Up Penning Poems About Stuff
How much do we love thee, Drew Houston? Let us count the ways. (Photo: wiki.smu.edu) There's the gadget liveblog, the multimedia-heavy feature and the bloggy, snarky take. But as we near the end of...
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PolicyMic Raises $10 Million To Keep Chasing The Millennial News Audience
(via PolicyMic) In the competitive and brutal world of new media journalism startups, players come and players go — but one contender just got a boost to keep them in the ring. PolicyMic has raised a...
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19-Year-Old Tech Pro Wants to Revolutionize News, Will Drop Out of School If...
Mr. Meyer demos Fresco for us at a WeWork coworking space downtown. (Photo by Jordyn Taylor) John Meyer isn't sure if he'll go back to school in the fall. Currently finishing up his freshman year at...
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‘Mic’ Drop: PolicyMic Changes Its Name, Revamps Layout
PolicyMic has abbreviated its name into something completely ungoogleable. (Image via PolicyMic) Millennials are often accused of being irresponsible and non-committal. We can't commit to a...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is NOT Suddenly Valued At $10 Billion
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX. (Photo via Getty) There's a lot of chatter in the air about a second tech bubble, though many of the smartest people in the room think it's not the case. Either way, it...
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Thought Catalog: Why I Won’t Pull My Pieces, Despite the Outrage
So Thought Catalog is facing a revolt. After publishing some offensive articles last week — offensive enough that Gawker called them a “white supremacist publication” — a handful of writers announced...
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Idealistic Millennial News Startup Mic Starts Running Native Ads
Mic knows that people can react poorly if content marketing isn't clearly marked. (Screengrab via Mic) After growing their audience 550 percent last year, Mic landed a $10 million VC investment to try...
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