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The story behind Toutiao, the $20 billion news aggregator app

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Peter Chen

Toutiao, a wildly popular news reader app in China, has recently reached a valuation of $20 billion in last round of $2 billion fundraising. Started by a former software engineer Yiming Zhang in 2012, Toutiao experienced exponential growth for the […]

The Demise of Digg: How an Online Giant Lost Control of the Digital Crowd

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Sean L

Digg's inability to prevent fraudulent voting allowed power users to take control of the site's content and undermined its mission to produce democratized news.

theSkimm: A Digital Weapon for the Modern News Consumer

Posted on September 13, 2015 by AJT

@theSkimm is a digital winner for news consumers wanting a consistent, convenient, curated news experience

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