Snapchat has revealed a redesign that gives publishers their own area of the app, away from messages from users' friends, and empowers an algorithm to decide what media content people see. CEO Evan Spiegel showed off the revamped app in a 60-second video proclaiming that Snapchat was
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Digital media companies are in a tough fight for ad dollars with Google and Facebook. Will hiring a Facebook exec help? Refinery29 is going to find out. The online publisher that targets millennial women has hired Sarah Personette, a top Facebook marketing executive, to be its chief operating officer.
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Two Ottawa newspaper publishers are blaming Postmedia's flawed business model for the impending closure of 24 community papers, saying the company has lost focus of the communities they serve. Postmedia and Torstar announced Monday they were swapping ownership of dozens of community
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I was a journalism student (and a FASHION journalism graduate student, lol—cut me some slack, I wanted to live in London) with minors in creative writing and Italian studies. I spent my under- graduate years writing reviews of tourist-trap Little Italy bakeries and local Queens venues frequented by high
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Not surprisingly, the best-selling product on Cyber Monday was an Amazon-branded product: the Echo Dot smart speaker. Other Amazon and Alexa-enabled devices were also popular, including its Fire TV Stick and Fire 7 tablets. “Customers purchased millions of Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices this
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With the new design, Snapchat will still open up to a camera, but it promises to have a clearer delineation between content from friends and content from publishers. If you swipe right from the main camera screen, you'll see a redesign Discover page of stories from publishers and creators as well as
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And many are doing that by partnering with publishers who focus on indie developers. Many of the leading indie games today are published by the likes of Devolver Digital, Curve, Raw Fury, Double Fine, Finji, Adult Swim, Team 17, Humble, PlayWay. They might seem to portend the sad end of a noble
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Some purchaseswere fueled by trends, like AncestryDNA, which was one of the top selling products on Amazon on Cyber Monday, selling 800% more kits in one day than during the entire holiday period last year, according to Vineet Mehra, the company's Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing
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Stocks finished at record highs on Tuesday as the Senate took a step toward passing a bill aimed at reforming the U.S. tax code. The Dow Jones industrial average closed 255.93 points higher at 23,836.71, with JPMorgan Chase leading advancers. The S&P 500 jumped 1 percent to 2,627.04 as
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She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. Her current project, a pair of novellas about professional female artists in nineteenth-century New England, has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the
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On this date in 1913, Gov. George W.P. Hunt filed a protest with Mexico over the wholesale execution of prisoners of war by Pancho Villa. On this date in 1929, fire partially destroyed the plant of the Arizona Silver Belt Publishing Co. at Miami. Valuable newspaper files dating back to 1878 were saved.
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This is in line with Prime Day, when the device was Amazon's biggest seller during the online giant's 30-hour shopping event in July. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, “Customers purchased millions of Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices, and Alexa devices were the top sellers across all of Amazon,” Dave
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Each recipe is accompianed by tasting notes, and includes some history of brewing gruits. “Against All Hops” is available now from Page Street Publishing Co. for $18.99. Norman Miller is a Daily News staff writer. Email him at nmiller@wickedlocal.com or call 508-626-3823. Check out the Beer Nut blog
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A new report has revealed more about the administration a Somerset-based tabletop games developer, including details of the subsequent sale of its assets to a competitor. Rebel Publishing Ltd, which traded as Spartan Games, entered administration on 4 September 2017 with Timothy Close from
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ABRAMS is the preeminent publisher of high-quality illustrated books and gift paper products for adults, adolescents and young children, and creates critically acclaimed and bestselling works under the following imprints: Abrams, Abrams ComicArts, Abrams Image, Abrams Books for Young Readers,
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Rahe set up a meeting between Barnes and the creative writing department head. They got to talking and hit it off, but Barnes wanted more. “I emailed her a couple of times afterward, just trying to figure out what movies she liked, what writers I should read about and do research on,” Barnes said.
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In an effort to make it even easier to use, Snapchat has overhauled its app with a fresh new redesign. The new app aims to separate 'social' and 'media', creating a clear distinction between interactions with friends and content from publishers and creators. The update is being introduced first to a small
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Per the company's statement, Echo Dot was the top-selling product on Amazon.com over the holiday weekend. Not only this, it was also the best-selling product from any manufacturer in any category on Amazon. Additionally, Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, all-new Amazon Echo, and Fire 7
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Audiences today only visit publisher sites for a few seconds before escaping to Facebook to discuss the content, and this is a huge challenge for publishers. We're committed to solving this problem by building communities to keep users engaged on publisher sites. Our native SDK now extends the
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In 1980, Advance Publications, Condé Nast's parent company, purchased Random House, one of the country's most storied book publishers. That was how he met Robert Gottlieb, an editor at Knopf, who ran The New Yorker from 1987 to 1992. In his speech, Mr. Gottlieb recalled a person whose
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