Google voting push helps you find your polling location
This morning you may have noticed technology giants like Google and Facebook making the push to get you out to vote. This move does not appear to be put in place to get votes for any particular subject...
View ArticleReddit CEO resigns over office location disagreement
Reddit's CEO has resigned from his position following a disagreement over the company's new office location and lease cost. The information comes from Sam Altman, who made the announcement earlier...
View ArticleReddit’s Secret Santa exchange tops 200k signups, breaks record
Less than one day short of its December 1st deadline, Reddit has topped 200,000 registrants for its 2014 Secret Santa gift exchange. This is well over double the 85,000+ users who signed up last year,...
View ArticleReddit Notes: users getting 10% equity with kinda-sorta currency
Reddit has just announced an odd initiative that aims to see 10% of the company's shares distributed among users, making true on a promise they made back in September after receiving $50 million in new...
View ArticleReddit brings custom avatars, link notifications
Reddit can be a wonderful place. It can also be a weird, disturbing stop on the Internet, but today’s news might encourage more users to spend time there. A few new features are coming to Reddit, one...
View ArticleBill Gates isn’t so keen on artificial intelligence
Elon Musk has shared his concerns about artificial intelligence, both publicly and privately, and none of them paint a rosy picture for the future of such technology. Musk has gone so far as to compare...
View ArticleReddit’s first Transparency Report shows few data requests
Because it's January, companies have been dropping their latest transparency reports detailing government data requests from the second half of 2014 -- we saw Dropbox's earlier this morning, for...
View ArticleReddit lays off Notes lead engineer, equity future in doubt
If you are one of the Redditors who have been holding on to Reddit's every word about equity, chances are you are pretty disappointed by now. The news-slash-social networking service has recently laid...
View ArticleReddit giving 10% of 2014 ad revenue to charity
When a company reports their earnings, we tend to marvel at the amount they brought in (or didn’t). From there, not much seems to happen, at least in view of the public. Reddit recently announced they...
View ArticleReddit, Google’s Blogger come of age, will limit adult content
Both Google and Reddit are starting to get a bit more serious about the content that finds its way to their respective platforms. Reddit is typically thought of as a repository for just about anything...
View ArticleReddit’s Apple Watch “Lonely Heartbeats” club band
This morning it's become apparent that those with Apple Watches out in the wild are wishing they had more Apple Watch friends. As such, a Reddit group has been created called "Lonely Heartbeats," one...
View ArticleWith Reddit Original Video, you are the product
You may have heard of the new service Reddit Original Video announced just this afternoon. If you're like any one of the millions of content creators on the web today, you might be wondering how you're...
View ArticleReddit’s anti-harassment policies protect users, ideas still fair game
Reddit, the so-called ‘front page of the Internet’, has a bit of a bad rap. Most of that reputation is earned; trolls would take to Reddit to harass or belittle others, and it became a dumping ground...
View ArticleReddit institutes new anti-harassment policy, bans 5 subreddits
Reddit, the self-titled "front page of the internet," recently instituted a new anti-harassment policy that aims to curb trolling and other behaviors that go beyond internet discussions and inflict...
View ArticlePopular Reddit forums go private as civil war simmers [Update]
All is not well in Reddit land, with the surprise ousting of a moderator prompting some of the most popular forums to disappear themselves from public view. The furore - which has seen subreddits...
View ArticleReddit CEO apologizes for surprises, bad management
Ellen Pao responds to the community with an apology for not handling moderator concerns in a timely and helpful manner. Pao, interim CEO at Reddit, recently found herself at the receiving end of a bit...
View ArticleReddit CEO resigns, replaced by co-founder
After one massive bit of controversy due to the firing of Reddit's director of talent Victoria Taylor, the site's CEO has been announced as leaving the company. This is after eight months on the job,...
View ArticleReddit CEO says site isn’t “a bastion of free speech”
This afternoon co-founder and once-again CEO Steve Huffman revealed an oncoming "comprehensive Content Policy and tools to enforce it." With this, said Huffman, the leadership team at Reddit hope to...
View ArticleReddit’s chief engineer Bethanye Blount has quit
Reddit is undergoing a revolution and not everyone is happy about it. A short while after CEO Ellen Pao resigned and co-founder Steve Huffman returned, the site's chief engineer Bethanye Blount has...
View ArticleReddit’s new content policy: bullies and more prohibited
Reddit promised that changes were coming, and now those changes are here. In a post today, the site's back-again CEO Steve Huffman detailed some additional content restrictions the company is...
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