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\When media orgs hurt the people who need them most News that the Washington Post is going to war with ad blocking software — with tactics reminiscent of the bad old days of nagware — has stirred debate, for lots of good reasons. Friendly to rather aggressive popups are nothing new on the web, but the Post’s application feels…
The Please Touch Museum has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and has settled a long dispute with its bondholders. The bondholders are getting $11 million to settle roughly $60 million in debt. It’s the culmination of two years of negotiations between the museum and its creditors. DFP 300×250 ad tag //DFP 300×250 tag The museum is now…
Are stories about $100 million Long Island palaces getting you down? Do you feel increasingly like you’ll never be able to afford to live alone? Does the average home sale price in Manhattan make you want to curl up in a ball of emotions? These are all pretty normal signs of Post-Gentrification Real Estate Depression….
If you want to read The Washington Post’s coverage of the newly discovered human species Homo naledi this morning but you’re using ad blocking software, you’re out of luck: The paper is experimenting with blocking access to readers who give ads the stiff-arm. One message that greeted WashingtonPost.com visitors with ad blocking software engaged. “We’re…
New York University’s commencement ceremony in 2012. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty) New York University is among the country’s wealthiest schools. Backed by its $3.5 billion endowment, the school has built campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, invested billions in SoHo real estate, and given its star faculty loans to buy…
Google and Twitter are working together to help publishers show “instant articles” to people who use their services on mobile phones. The plan, which is supposed to launch with a small group of publishers this fall, is an effort to make it easier for publishers to distribute their stuff on mobile devices. It is also a response to similar…
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Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, went after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer this morning. On Bloomberg Surveillance, Galloway told host Tom Keene that Mayer’s announcement that she is pregnant with twins is what’s giving her job security. “If she hadn’t announced she was pregnant with twins, she’d be out of a…
Legend is a movie about a pair of notorious London gangsters, twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray. It stars Tom Hardy, who fills the shoes of both brothers, but, according to The Guardian, the film is “a disappointingly shallow take on a fascinating period of time and leaves us sorely uninformed, as if we’ve skim-read a pamphlet.”…
By Chris O’Shea on Sep. 8, 2015 – 11:01 AM Alan Murray has been editor of Fortune for just over one year. Despite that brief amount of time, his editorial guidance has had a significant impact on Fortune.com. In August, Fortune.com enjoyed record-setting traffic. Compared to August of last year, unique visitors are up 100 percent, to 15.9…