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Apple Media, International Editorial Manager Job Number: 44443411 Santa Clara Valley, California, United States Posted: Nov. 19, 2015 Weekly Hours: 40.00 Job Summary Apple Media, International Editorial Manager – Manage international editorial, localization and translation for Apple Media. Manage Apple staff and global agencies including social media and marketing vendors. Key Qualifications International marketing, editorial…
Lower East Side / East Village Reporter DNAinfo New York is looking for neighborhood reporter to cover the Lower East Side and East Village. Whoever takes the job would cover everything from SPURA to Sock Man. This reporter would also cover education, politics, food, bars, real estate and whatever other subjects he or she finds…
Improving Post New Before I get into it, I’m going to need help to get some of these projects going. If you see something you’re interested in working on, let me know in the comments. The following project proposals are not intended to be a single feature plugin because they are separate projects with separate…
The drawing for the largest-ever lottery prize will be on Wednesday, if you still want a ticket. ID: 7740669 4. The meme claims that if the winner of the big prize instead split the money with every American citizen, each person would get $4.33 million. “Poverty solved!” it declared. ID: 7741504 One of the first…
Uber’s losses grew to nearly a billion dollars in the first half of last year, nearly 50% more than its full-year losses in 2014, according to confidential documents issued by the company as part of financing efforts last year. Net revenue in the first half of 2015 was $663 million, the documents showed. (Scroll down…
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Every day Todd Strandberg wakes up and scans the news for omens of the apocalypse. First, he checks the stock market and the price of oil for unusual activity. Then he checks news sites for an uptick in reports of terrorism, drug legalization, nuclear arms proliferation, UFO sightings, exorcisms, false prophets and signs of the Antichrist. Based…
Peach is dead, four days after its launch. This seems as obvious as the death of Meerkat one month after its debut. One cool aspect of the modern app market is that the hype cycle can now peak in less than 24 hours. A messaging app called Peach triggered a media maelstrom on Friday afternoon, peaked at No. 85 on the…
What a year it has been! In 2015, we celebrated our 150th anniversary. We toured the country with a live show and a documentary film. We published a coffee table–bending 268-page special issue. We delved into our archives with daily explorations of our country’s rich and tumultuous history. Ad Policy Perhaps most vitally, on July…
The two-year phone contract is dead. Sprint confirmed to The Verge this morning that it is no longer offering two-year contracts on phones, meaning that all four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — now only sell phones at full price and on installment plans. Though it means having one fewer option…