Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yahoo has filed with the SEC to spin off its remaining shares of Alibaba Group into a new public company called Aabaco Holdings. Yahoo announced the spinoff plan in January, and says Aabaco Holdings will launch in the fourth quarter of 2015. The new company will hold 384 million shares of Alibaba Group stock totaling 15 percent of company….
Inside the main dining room at Le Diplomate, on 14th Street NW. (Amanda Voisard/For the Washington Post) For much of America, it was a long, slow crawl out of the Great Recession. Five years ago, auto and steel plants had shut their doors. Investments had collapsed. Foreclosures and unemployment were spiking. Yet in D.C., it…
Gossip website Gawker regularly walks the fine line between entertaining, edgy content and completely unethical, sleazy trash. On Thursday, the website went way, way over that line by helping a blackmailer take revenge against a non-public figure because that person declined to abuse their power on the blackmailer’s behalf. FROM EARLIER: Specs leak for a mystery LG phone…
Photo The house at 339 Livingston Street is the home that Johnnie McDowell, shown with his daughter, Erin, would like to buy, but can’t afford. Credit Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times WESTFIELD, N.J. — To Johnnie McDowell, the house on Livingston Street seems to taunt him every time he walks by. It’s…
@ThreeCare Ad campaign mocks transgender ppl. What are Three’s corporate social responsibility policies? #TakeItDownpic.twitter.com/JxgiptZrZP — socmot (@socmot) July 15, 2015 Mobile company Three Ireland recently put out an campaign to advertise their data plan. When many people pointed out that the line “It turned out he was a she” was incredibly transphobic, Three Ireland tweeted the…
On a sunny day last week, Shaun McBride (known on Snapchat as Shonduras) went to the supermarket. His hundreds of thousands of followers were alerted to the expedition through a Snapchat showing McBride holding a hastily drawn watermelon and a box of Cap’n Crunch. “What’s up, Snapchatters? Welcome to grocery shopping with Shonduras!” he said…
Newsweek to shutter Europe edition The project, devoted to long-form journalism, is ending just 18 months after it began. By Alex Spence 13/7/15, 7:32 PM CET Updated 13/7/15, 8:21 PM CET /.meta /.summary /.story-intro LONDON — Newsweek has pulled the plug on an ambitious attempt to build a European weekly magazine based on in-depth, original…
More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook than in the past, according to a new report by Pew Research Center in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The survey of 2,035 U.S. adults sheds light on Americans’ evolving news and information habits on the two platforms. Here are five key…
Photo Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit.Credit Noam Galai/Getty Images for Techcrunch Over the last week, the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of a Reddit employee, a move that led to a huge user uprising and the resignation of the site’s interim chief executive, have been murky at best. Now those details are starting to emerge….
The Washington Post today published a nice blow job of a piece on so-called millennial news sites like .Mic, Fusion, and the hilariously named “Ozy.com,” and how these angel-invested content theme parks are capturing the minds of socially interested young ones (are they? they’re not). According to Fusion’s editor, Alexis Madrigal, his site is not…