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Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world (as of 2012), due to its array of desktop, laptop, and mobile products. Its 2007 introduction of the iPhone sparked a global boom in smartphones; its 2010 introduction of the iPad led to a revolution in the once-stagnant tablet space. Its iPhone design defined smartphone…

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West Seattle Blog is an online-only hyperlocal news operation that covers several neighborhoods in West Seattle. The site was founded in December 2005 by Tracy Record as a personal blog but became a news site in 2006. In 2007, Record and her husband, Patrick Sand, began selling ads and working on the site full-time. It…

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Quartz is an online business publication that provides reporting and analysis on the global economy. The site was launched in 2012 by Atlantic Media, owner of The Atlantic, The Wire and National Journal. The site is based in New York and has a newsroom staff of around 25 reporters, editors and developers. In building the…

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The Journal Register Company was a newspaper chain that owned mostly small publications in the northeast United States. It merged in 2013 with the MediaNews Group as part of Digital First Media. The company, based in Yardley, Penn., owned 19 daily newspapers and more than 150 nondaily publications. Its flagship newspaper was the New Haven (Conn.) Register….

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CBS News is the news division of the American television network CBS, which is owned by the media conglomerate Viacom. CBS’ news programs include the CBS Evening News, the long-running newsmagazine 60 Minutes, the morning program The Early Show, and the Sunday morning talk show CBS News Sunday Morning. CBS has been for years the…

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