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As of midnight last Friday night, Fusion’s parent company, Univision Communications, is now the proud owner of six awesome blogs: Gizmodo, Kotaku, Deadspin, Jezebel, Lifehacker, and Jalopnik. The deal closed, sadly, with precious little celebration. Instead, the weekend was dominated by controversy over the deletion of six posts which were not part of the acquisition…
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O Friday, Ipublished an article about the gender divide in Apple‘s last two iPhone events. I pointed that while Apple has been vocal about its commitment to diversity, is not evident On Wednesday, when Apple introduced the iPhone 7, women spoke for approximately eight minutes; men spoke for 99. Ahead of publication, I emailed Apple for comment twice, with no…
Univision has said that it bought Gawker Media because it believed in the work that our publications do. That work, for well over a decade, was only possible because we knew that our company leadership would defend it if it came under frivolous legal attack. Univision’s first act on acquiring the company was to delete…
Conspiracy theorists from the depths of Twitter and Reddit said Teresa Barnwell stepped out of Chelsea’s apartment after the real candidate fell sick at the 9/11 memorial. She blames herself for some of the confusion. Hillary Clinton’s replicant respectfully requests you stop tweeting at her. “I hope you can straighten this all out and get…
Samsung’s disastrously defective new Galaxy Note 7 has wiped about $25 billion off its market value, with its stock falling almost 11% in trading on Friday and Monday. It’s the worst two-day fall for the Korean electronics giant since 2008, according to Bloomberg data. The blown launch of the Note 7, Samsung’s would-be iPhone competitor,…
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary JohnsonGary JohnsonSecond newspaper endorses Johnson for president Libertarian nominee top choice among veterans Trump trails Clinton by 3 in Breitbart poll MORE is the top choice of respondents in the most recent polling of the military community. Johnson was preferred by 37 percent of respondents, which include active-duty, retired and former…
Please, Mrs. Conservative… please don’t yell at our daddy for using food stamps. Also, can we have a cookie? I met this woman named Mae. She’s a van driver for a production company. She works 14-hour days but says she doesn’t mind, says she keeps one eye on the road and the other on the prize — a…
Images: Getty/Twitter WikiLeaks is no stranger to controversy. In July, the organization posted tons of Americans’ credit card and social security numbers. In August, the “whistleblower site” published dozens of malware links in an email dump from AKP, Turkey’s ruling party. But Sunday evening, the organization felt it crossed a line, when it tweeted a…
Image: Gizmodo/Getty While Hillary “Delete Your Account” Clinton might have a nuanced, albeit cringeworthy, understanding of how to utilize social media, the same cannot be said for her husband Bill. The New York Times reports that at a public appearance earlier this week in North Carolina, the former president speculated about the reasons no one…