TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reddit has raised a new funding round, totalling $250 million. Reddit also ran a 5-second Super Bowl ad on Sunday, consisting of. This is Reddit’s 16th year of operation, and the company has raised around $800 million to date, including a Tencent-led $300 million Series D in February, 2019. Reddit acquires Dubsmash.

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Engadget

MARCH 3, 2025

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced it's investigating how TikTok, Reddit and Imgur protect children on their platforms. " The UK doesn't yet know if these companies have infringed on personal data protections.

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The Verge

JUNE 12, 2020

We’ll likely have to wait until Sony gives official dimensions (or shows the physical box next to something else for scale) of the controversial design to know for sure, but that isn’t stopping fans on the internet from doing their best to estimate things.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

Many websites — including banking pages, brokerages, and gaming services — were affected for just over an hour Thursday, as part of a major internet outage. Many sites appear to be functional again after Akamai, a content delivery network that hosts much of the internet, started rolling out a fix to its service. “We

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Reddit and Twitter have filed supporting evidence in a lawsuit against the US government, which challenges the requirement that nearly all visa applicants submit their social media handles for scrutiny. Their evidence is supported by the Internet Association, a trade association that represents US tech companies including Facebook and Google.

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The Next Web

JUNE 22, 2012

Alexis Ohanian, the cofounder of Reddit, Breadpig, and several other successful startups, has teamed up with hyperink to release an exclusive ebook based on his talk on how to start and grow an amazing company. ” Your competition is stiff on the Internet, cute cats included. Anything you create actually has to be good.”

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Reddit has banned another community dedicated to posting racist remarks on its platform — but only after co-founder Alexis Ohanian decided to report the subreddit. And not by actually reporting it to Reddit, but instead calling it out in a Twitter thread. Reddit’s history with racist content dates back years.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Today, Amazon revealed the design of the antennas its customers will use to tap into the company’s upcoming massive satellite constellation, Project Kuiper, designed to provide broadband internet coverage from space. The goal is to provide coverage to remote areas and regions that do not have access to traditional high-speed internet.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Voat, an “anti-censorship” alternative social network that’s been described as the “alt-right Reddit,” is scheduled to shut down on December 25th. Voat was founded in 2014 and hosted Reddit-like forums with minimal moderation. Photo by ROB ENGELAAR/ANP/AFP via Getty Images. I love you all. Every single one of you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. In response, many web sites are going on strike.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

A huge global web outage swept across the internet this morning, taking out popular sites including Amazon, Twitch, and Reddit. Vast chunks of the internet are offline, including The Verge. The outages started at around 5:30AM ET, with a large number of sites affected.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

Before Reddit there was Digg , which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts. Now the founders of both platformssocial media veterans Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian are relaunching the early Reddit rival with a focus on “humanity and connection” they hope will be boosted by the use of artificial intelligence.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). Your organization's site could effectively be removed from the Internet without a trial or hearing, based on the accusation of copyright infringement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Game on : Amazon is in talks to acquire Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet, Manish reports. Gone phishing : Reddit confirmed that hackers accessed its internal data in what it is calling “a sophisticated phishing attack” that targeted its employees, Carly writes.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The story of r/WallStreetBets Subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been the talk of the Internet this week, as its members have driven GameStop’s stock prices from around $20 to over $300. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. Reddit, like most sites that host video, autoplays videos by default. Under “Media,” look for and uncheck “Autoplay Reddit videos on the desktop comments page.”. Using the newest design.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In 2012, 58% of the Millennial population said they used the mobile Internet, and this number is only increasing. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. million Baby Boomers in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Does Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have regrets over his creation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

I was part of the first-day that featured mobile expert Amy Gahran and Lee Raine , Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” Digital Trends.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Bankrupting of the Hedge Fund Melvin Capital by the Internet Message Board WallStreetBets. Okay, screenwriters, directors, authors, and production companies — we get it. To The Moon, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and HODL. This Theater Still Exists Because of This Movie’s Events ( remember AMC ?).

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Reddit users seemed impressed. The potential for Starlink, a massive internet-from-space service, to upend the market for grounded broadband fiber might be tantalizing, but the company has a ways to go, as we noted in our review in May. Big Starlink app update has a fancy 3D obstruction checker that’s way more informative and helpful.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

On the other hand, China has seen rapid development in mobile internet and AI, especially in terms of real-life applications, which Xie argued makes China a suitable testing ground for data processing software.

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The Next Web

JUNE 1, 2013

Nick has been launching startups, leading teams and shipping products since the first Internet gold rush, and he’s passionate about helping founders finish what they start and turning ideas into products that win. Why don’t we have share buttons for Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Reddit, Tumblr and Pinterest?”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nicknamed the “26 words that created the internet” by Jeff Kosseff, Section 230 established a liability shield for platforms that host third-party content. In the nascent days of the internet, 230 created favorable legal conditions for startups and entrepreneurs to flourish, cementing the United States as a world leader in software.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Popular image-sharing site Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab , a Santa Monica-based firm that describes itself as a “holding company of consumer internet brands.” The company owns a number of B-list tech and internet services, including messaging apps Kik and Whisper, lyrics annotator Genius, and viral video aggregator WorldStarHipHop.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

I guess I can always cut the TV’s internet connection and stick to a streaming stick or my Xbox Series X if the autoplay commercials keep popping up everywhere. Or maybe I can opt out of a setting somewhere to end the barrage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

In other words, it’s a site where — similar to the Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database — users can look up who’s appeared in which podcasts, rate and review those podcasts and add them to lists. million podcast credits in the database. million podcast credits in the database.

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Care2

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Users on Reddit also crowdsourced ideas to draft new Internet legislation in place of SOPA. For example, when Congress was considering to support the SOPA bill earlier in 2012, nonprofits and businesses organized over 10,000,000 people to sign online petitions and send over 3,000,000 emails to Congress.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Its developer, u/zmknox, outlines how the process works in a Reddit post here. Other Reddit users have previously reported being able to use existing browsers to achieve the same thing, but Stadium streamlines the whole process. It’s as easy as downloading the app, entering a few details, and logging into your Google account.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Reddit meme that bludgeoned a hedge fund There are three things to remember as you watch the chaos unfolding with GameStop’s stock price. Second, the internet is real life. These days, you can just buy video games over the internet instead of going to a soul-killing strip mall in Iowa City to buy a physical copy of the game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The genre of cat videos has grown so much that the Walker Art Center initiated the Internet Cat Video Festival , curated by a “cat video curator.” If there’s one thing the internet loves unconditionally, it’s cats. 5 Examples of Non-Profits Using Cats… And a Dog guest post by Madeleine Hammond. Refurb the Cat.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. In addition to independent distribution lists, Hejazi wants to move away from the ad-supported internet.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

kraven420 ( Reddit ). Some of the visual glitches that people are experiencing could be related to internet connectivity to the streaming data used to power Flight Simulator , or simply due to players not enabling the full data download when the game is configured. Buckingham Palace turned into an office block.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

According to the report, a user on Reddit noticed a Starlink dish, which goes by the official name Dishy McFlatface, at a Supercharger station in Lake City, Florida. Having free internet access through Starlink might attract drivers outside of the Tesla ecosystem, maybe even helping Tesla outperform Goldman Sachs’ estimate.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

If you’re lucky enough to have never heard the phrase “Web3,” it’s often used to describe a decentralized, crypto-based internet. When you’re dealing with an Internet mob, though, attention eventually fades. If you’re trying to get Reddit traders’ attention, building an NFT platform could be a pro strat.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

The survey, shared by a Sonos customer on Reddit , describes an on-device voice control system that would improve user privacy by not routing questions and commands through the cloud. Sonos might be developing a voice assistant alternative to Alexa or Google Assistant for its speakers, according to a customer survey spotted by VoiceBot.ai.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Trades in the infamous Reddit-basket of stocks and trades are taking a pounding today, with GameStop down 52.7%, AMC Entertainment off 42.7%, the silver-squeeze flopping and more. Because the companies that Reddit’s legion of traders decided to pump were ultimately not selected for anything other than price plasticity.

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