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The Future of BuzzFeed Looks Like a Newsier Facebook News Feed

BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti doesn't mind if people are a little bit confused about the site's mix of LOL-friendly content and, more recently, political scooplets. As a content operation that caters...

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How Union Square Ventures Almost Invested In BuzzFeed -- And Then Didn't

Last week, we took a tour of BuzzFeed and interviewed its co-founder and CEO, Jonah Peretti, and Editor-in-Chief, Ben Smith. The full story will run later this week. In the meantime, there was one...

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Significant and Silly at BuzzFeed

When a Web site called BuzzFeed broke the news in early January that John McCain was endorsing Mitt Romney, more than a few readers scratched their heads and said, “What is a BuzzFeed?” Yana Paskova...

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Ex-L.A. Times Editors Join BuzzFeed in Push to Cover Hollywood (Exclusive)

share Richard Rushfield will head a new Los Angeles bureau for the social news site as Kate Aurthur joins to cover television, film and celebrities. Social news website BuzzFeed is going Hollywood,...

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Buddy Media CEO Donates Birthday to Charity: Water

Michael Lazerow, “serial entrepreneur” and CEO of Buddy Media (a social enterprise suite who you may recognize from their frequent Ad Age magazine wraps), celebrates his 38th birthday today. In a...

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INSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved...

BuzzFeed's office. The company has 175 employees. Jonah Peretti stretches out casually in his chair, sneaker over knee, in his downtown New York office. The office is encased in glass, a transparent...

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Link aggregator Buzzfeed secures $15.5M round

Buzzfeed, a site known for curating the best viral content across the web, has raised a new $15.5 million round of funding as well as adding handful of people responsible for the Huffington Post’s...

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How BuzzFeed Became A Huge Web Media Company By Ditching Google And Banner Ads

How Union Square Ventures Almost Invested In BuzzFeed—And Then Didn't Here's The Email-Alerts Service That BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Can't Live Without Nick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah...

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Sirius XM to carry BuzzFeed radio show

* New show airs on Tuesday * BuzzFeed has 30 mln monthly unique visitors-company * Fast-growing website expanding political coverage Aug 12 (Reuters) - Sirius XM is launching "BuzzFeed Radio", a...

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11 things you need to know about Buzzfeed

After raising nearly $20m in funding, the social news website is set to launch in the UK and take on Mail Online It figures … Buzzfeed's list-mad site is about to launch in the UK....

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Terry City Joins BuzzFeed as Vice President of Sales, West Coast

BuzzFeed Expands Social Advertising for Film and Television Industry New York, NY (PRWEB) April 13, 2012 Terry City has joined BuzzFeed as Vice President of Sales, West Coast. City was most recently...

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Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get...

Crunchies: Vote | Tickets Apple Facebook Amazon Twitter Google Coverage › Schedule › Live Feed › Video Archive › news Comment Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get...

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BuzzFeed Is Now Valued At ~ $200 Million, But Investors Think It Has...

'I Love Cute, Fluffy Animals': A Q&A With BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith The 12 Coolest Startup Offices We've Ever Seen Holy Cow! Buzzfeed Just Raised ANOTHER $20 Million BuzzFeed, a media...

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BuzzFeed Raises $15.5 Million

BuzzFeed keeps growing. After making a statement by appointing Politico’s Ben Smith as editor-in-chief, TechCrunch reports that the news aggregator raised $15.5...

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BuzzFeed Has Raised A $15.5 Million Round

BuzzFeed founder Jonah PerettiViral media site BuzzFeed has raised $15.5 million in a Series C round, reports TechCrunch. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates and followed up with Lerer...

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BuzzFeed Secures $19.3M in Funding

BuzzFeed secured $19.3 million in a new round of financing on Thursday led by the investment firm...

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Hormel acquiring Skippy peanut butter

Chronicle News Services | January 3, 2013 | Updated: January 3, 2013 10:06pm Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 FOOD Hormel adding peanut butter Hormel Foods, the maker of Spam lunch meat,...

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Buzzfeed raises $15 million to boost editorial

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - BuzzFeed's new editor has $15 million to play with. The social-driven website known for viral videos and memes surprised many in December when it announced Ben Smith, one...

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Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti Wants To Create Another 'Mad Men' Age Of...

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Buzzfeed announces $19.3m in funding as it transforms internet advertising

Adding serious journalism in between the cat pictures is paying off for Jonah Peretti's popular social site – and its advertisers Buzzfeed offers a mix of frivolity, serious news and advertising...

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BuzzFeed Raises Nearly $20 Million, Plans More Hires

share The social news site will beef up its staff and add extra focus on mobile phone content. Social news site BuzzFeed, known for its irreverent, highly shareable curated lists such as "8 GIFS of...

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BuzzFeed Announces $20 Million in New Financing

> BuzzFeed, the social news Web site that was one of the media industry darlings of 2012, began the new year by announcing Thursday morning that it had raised nearly $20 million in new financing...

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Social news group BuzzFeed snags $19.5 mn

The latest round was led by the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates and included previous investors RRE, Hearst, SoftBank, and Lerer Ventures. Michael and Kass Lazerow, co-founders of Buddy...

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Holy Cow Buzzfeed Just Raised $20 Million

Jon Steinberg and Jonah Peretti Cute animals plus political news site Buzzfeed just raised a whopping $19.3 million for its fourth – "series D"– round of funding. NEA led the deal. Previous investors...

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Social news website BuzzFeed raises $19.5 million in funds

WASHINGTON: BuzzFeed, a fast-growing social news website, on Thursday said it had raised $19.5 million in a new round of funding from investors to help its expansion. The latest round was led by the...

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Buzzfeed Raises $19.3 Million in Funding

Buzzfeed Inc., the prolific online publisher of quirky animal photos, 1990s retrospectives and autocorrect mishaps, raised $19.3 million in funding from an investor group led by venture firm New...

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>SoftBank Capital Raises $53 Million Fund To Continue Investing In New York...

SoftBank Capital, a venture firm associated with Japan's SoftBank Corp, has raised a $53 million drop-down fund to continue investing in New York startups. In the past few years, SoftBank Capital has...

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SoftBank Capital Raises $53 Million Fund To Continue Investing In New York...

Jordan Levy, partner at SoftBank CapitalSoftBank Capital, a venture firm associated with Japan's SoftBank Corp, has raised a $53 million drop-down fund to continue investing in New York startups. In...

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BuzzFeed Partners With CNN And YouTube To Create Online Video Channel

Yahoo Apple Facebook Twitter Google Microsoft NSA startups Comment BuzzFeed Partners With CNN And YouTube To Create Online Video Channel Catherine Shu View Staff Page Follow me on twitter Catherine...

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BuzzFeed Partners With CNN, Will Invest Low “Eight-Digit Sum” In...

Yahoo Apple Facebook Twitter Google Microsoft startups Comment BuzzFeed Partners With CNN, Will Invest Low “Eight-Digit Sum” In YouTube News Channel Catherine Shu View Staff Page Follow me on twitter...

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Social Publishing FTW: With 40M Users, Jonah Peretti’s BuzzFeed Raises...

Yahoo Apple Facebook Twitter Google Microsoft news Comment Social Publishing FTW: With 40M Users, Jonah Peretti’s BuzzFeed Raises Another $19.3M Led By NEA Ingrid Lunden View Staff Page Follow me on...

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News startup BuzzFeed raises millions in new round

(Reuters) - News website BuzzFeed, one of the more interesting news business models to emerge in recent years, has raised $19.3 million in new capital, the company said on Thursday. The round was led...

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