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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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Newsweek logo

Newsweek is a newsweekly magazine that was once the second-largest newsweekly in the United States. The magazine is owned by IBT Media, owners of the International Business Times and a company with connections to a controversial pastor named David Jang. It has gone through several owners in recent years: The site had been bought from The Washington…

Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News logo

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News are jointly owned daily newspapers in Philadelphia and the city’s two primary print media outlets. The two newspapers are owned by H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, who bought the paper in 2014 from Interstate General Media, a holding company owned by a group of local investors of which they had been…

Journal Register Co. logo

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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The Daily Beast is a news website founded in 2008 by former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown that primarily aggregates content from across the web. The site is owned by Barry Diller’s Internet media company IAC/InteractiveCorp and has received most of its funding from the company. The Daily Beast began without advertising…

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