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APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. It’s called showing good service to your most loyal customers. Good comment community = viral blog.

Buzzfeed 354

Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

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APRIL 3, 2018

A report, published by Buzzfeed on Monday, says that Los Angeles-based gay dating and hookup app Grindr had been sharing information on users' HIV status with two app optimization services, coupled with their GPS data and information. Grindr also said Apptimize and Localytics were not sharing that data with anyone else.

Buzzfeed 124

Buzzfeed Report Services Research 124

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APRIL 6, 2015

Geoff Campbell: AllSay is a service which believes everyone should have a say in the decisions that affect them. Through their professional services, I ended up investing in a private equity firm called iFormation, which was a three way joint venture between Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic Partners.

Mobile 100

Mobile Buzzfeed News Tool 100

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MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet? KickStarter?

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Irvine-based Crowdstrike , the cybersecurity services and software firm led by security veteran George Kurtz, has been in the news a lot over the last year, for its involvement in uncovering the hacking at the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Buzzfeed 113

Buzzfeed News Google Sales 113

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JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. AOL and the like.

Company 150

Company Companies Netflix Content 150