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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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U.S. News & World Report is an online consumer news magazine owned and edited since 1984 by real estate and publishing mogul Mortimer Zuckerman. U.S. News was formed in 1948 from a merger between a weekly newspaper called the United States News and a magazine called World Report. It was a newsweekly similar to Time…

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Tribune Publishing is a Chicago-based media company, the United States’ second-largest newspaper publisher. It was formerly part of the Tribune Company. Tribune Publishing owns 10 daily newspapers, including its flagship, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Hartford Courant. As part of the Tribune Co., it had owned 42 television stations, along with the cable…

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Voice of San Diego is a nonprofit online news organization that focuses on in-depth and investigative reporting on civic issues. The site was founded in 2005 by venture capitalist Buzz Woolley and veteran San Diego journalist Neil Morgan, funded by $355,000 of Woolley’s own money as a way to fill what they saw a gap…

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Spot.Us is a journalism crowdfunding project in which users can donate money to pay for the costs of specific stories they would like to see covered. Spot.Us was founded in 2008 by David Cohn and launched through a $340,000 Knight News Challenge grant. It was acquired in 2011 by the Public Insight Network, a division…

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