The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Image: Reddit. Reddit has acquired “short-form video social platform” Dubsmash, the company announced today. Under the terms of the deal, the TikTok rival will continue to exist as a separate platform and brand, but its “innovative video creation tools” will be integrated into Reddit.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

If you opened your Reddit app today and noticed a new video button next to the search bar, you could be a tap away from experiencing the forum platform’s take on TikTok. Loading up the feed on my own Reddit iOS app, the experience is unavoidably TikTok-like. The video feed in the Reddit iOS app looks a lot like TikTok.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit raises more funding, Shopify expands payments to Facebook and a study suggests that the Apple Watch might be able to predict COVID diagnoses. The big story: Reddit raises $250M. This is your Daily Crunch for February 9, 2021. The company also ran a five-second Super Bowl ad on Sunday, consisting of a single static image.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Wow, if I had a nickel for every time I found out I had half-siblings through Reddit, I'd have two nickels," the 20-year-old posted on TikTok , "which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?" When asked on Threads , Meta's Twitter clone, which "platform was the worst to find out through," she responded in kind. "r/RuPaulsDragRace,"

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Reddit’s acquisition spree is continuing this morning with news that the company is bringing the audience contextualization company Spiketrap’s technology in-house. The richness of conversation within our 100,000+ active communities is what makes Reddit so unique and so valuable for advertisers.

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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. Applicants must submit any handles they use on twenty online sites, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Reddit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

If Reddit and Stack Overflow were ever to create an offspring, it might look a little something like Daily.dev , perhaps with a little bit of Hacker News somewhere in the genetic makeup too. “So far, we haven’t built a downvote feature, mostly due to that logic.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Social hub Reddit filed to go public , TechCrunch reports. When it comes to Reddit, however, we have bona fides. Most recently, Reddit raised a huge venture round at a roughly $10 billion valuation. A key element of the Reddit platform is independently-run communities that self-police. Content moderation costs?

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Photo by Reddit. Reddit will shut down its short-form video platform, Dubsmash, on February 22nd, 2022. A competitor to TikTok, Dubsmash was acquired by Reddit late last year with the purpose of embedding its video creation tools into the larger platform. Photo by Reddit.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Reddit will double the number of employees it has over the course of this year to around 1,400 after raising $250 million in a new funding round, the company has announced. Reddit currently has around 700 employees globally. Reddit recently acquired Dubsmash. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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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. Voat also provided a home for the QAnon conspiracy movement after it was purged from most other platforms.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

When Reddit moderators wrote the open letter, they hoped it would cause the administration to take some kind of action on the multiple subreddits spreading disinformation on Covid-19 throughout the platform, but that didn't happen. The administration justified the lack of action by stating that dissent is "the foundation of.

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TechImpact

APRIL 16, 2014

Social media is well documented as a necessary marketing platform for all nonprofits. Images are much more likely to go viral, and are more pliant as they are able to be shared across all social platforms, instead of being relegated to one or two. Host a Twitter chat or Reddit AMA. Image courtesy of athgo.

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TechSpot

MARCH 13, 2021

Reports of sudden USB disconnections and poor signal quality on AMD X570 and B550 motherboards starting becoming commonplace on Reddit at the end of last year. Three weeks ago, AMD finally acknowledged the problem and began collecting information from the afflicted. The severity of the problem was shown to fluctuate.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

Today, Reddit is updating its search feature to index comments. For the first time, users will have an option to pull results from replies to posts, making it less of a hassle to find something specific outside of general Reddit posts, communities, and people. Image: Reddit. Image: Reddit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Medium announced today its third and final acquisition of the year: Knowable , an audio-based learning platform featuring podcast-like courses from experts like Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and food journalist Mark Bittman.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

If you’ve scrolled through Reddit’s app recently, you might have spotted a live stream of someone playing music, making art, or just talking to the camera. Those broadcasts come from Reddit’s own live-streaming service, the Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN) , which just celebrated its first anniversary last week.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The platform's most upvoted posts include the full screenshot of r/place 2022 (434,300 upvotes), a post about Ukraine handing over nuclear weapons to Russia in 1996 (403,500 upvotes) and Scrat from Ice Age finally getting his acorn (379,800 upvotes).

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

According to the latest Community Brands research, 52% of association professionals use an online member community but only 14% rate their use of the platform as excellent. You can also find online communities on Twitter (X), Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit. An online community improves member loyalty and drives engagement.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

R/GAs new partners at Truelink have established a $50 million Innovation Fund for a boost in new skill sets and talent, as well as acquisitions for new capabilities, emerging tools, and platforms. R/GA has faced multiple layoff rounds and executive departures in recent years, after two decades of leading in digital advertising and brand work.

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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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Digital Trends

JANUARY 8, 2021

Jen Wong, Reddit chief operating officer and CES 2021 panelist, discusses the changes this past year has brought to Reddit, and what 2021 has in store.

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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. million on the platform himself. With Cent’s seed funding Hejazi hopes to continue building the platform.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Reddit has brought back its April Fools’ Day project. Reddit said Monday that it’s bringing back its r/Place April Fools’ Day experience for four days beginning April 1st. If you visit the page but you’re not logged in to Reddit, you can still see the image evolve in real time, but won’t be able to place tiles of your own. “We

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2022

Reddit is expanding its Community Funds program , the company announced this week, and it plans to spend $1 million funding various projects across the platform. “We Projects can ask for between $1,000 and $50,000, and Reddit will start issuing grants in June. Image: Reddit. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

So, your collection of skins and XP level on, say, Nintendo Switch, won’t carry over to other platforms and vice versa. The update doesn’t enable cross-progression between multiple copies of the game that you might own. Though, that might not be the case in the future.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Robinhood raises $1B after trading halts to keep its platform running. The ensuing high volume of trading activity from individual retail investors led to various actions from platforms that provide free trading to these individuals, including Robinhood, Webull, Public and M1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

iOS App Store, Robinhood is ranked first; Webull, a rival service is second; Reddit, a hub for trading gossip mostly via r/WallStreetBets is third; Coinbase a popular crypto trading service is fourth in line. One result of the current climate is a boom in demand for trading apps. Today on the U.S.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

Like Facebook, TikTok, and Reddit , Amazon has not gotten a lid on limiting the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Unlike those platforms and others, Amazon has seemingly done very little to try to stop it. We are blocking certain autocomplete responses to address these concerns.”. You are not a horse. You are not a cow. link] — U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Nat Friedman (former CEO, GitHub), Brian Stevens (former CTO, Google Cloud and former CTO, Red Hat), Idit Levine (founder and CEO, solo.io ), Julius Volz (creator of Prometheus), Ellen Pao (former CEO, Reddit) and Daniel Lopez (co-founder, Bitnami).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The company is kicking off the community part of its platform by releasing its first NFT, called The Keystone, of which 987 will be available on January 20. Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

And, this month, Sam is raising money to support a new documentary called Wisconsin Rising on the kickstarter platform. Social media has provided a unique platform for independent producers to get their stories out and to raise money for their work. Vince Stehle thinks so as he explained in this guest post about Gasland.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

WorkRamp , which has built a platform that helps organizations build their own training materials, and then distribute them both to their workforce and to partners, has raised $17 million, a Series B round of funding that’s being led by OMERS Ventures, with Bow Capital also participating. We are aiming for a consumer-grade experience.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean , for example, puts cutting-edge AI search capabilities in the hands of employees so that they can tap into various apps and platforms to find documents and corporate intelligence. In June 2024, the company transformed its existing enterprise AI assistant and search engine into a platform called Work AI platform.

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TechSpot

APRIL 7, 2021

Reddit, the only other platform that saw statistically significant growth since 2019, is now used by 18 percent of US adults, representing a seven percent increase.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

For the past two days, photographers have been posting in a panic across Twitter, Reddit, and the Photoshop feedback forums. Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images. They’d downloaded Adobe’s latest update for Lightroom’s iOS app, and suddenly, their photos and presets were gone.

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