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The Guardian
A look at Neopets, a website launched in 1999 to let users care for virtual pets, including how the site survived multiple acquisitions and Flash's phasing out
An icon of millennials' childhoods languished for nearly two decades. Now it's attempting a comeback - banking on the fact that it hasn't changed at all X: @blakersdozen X: Blake Montgomery / @blaker...
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Gizmodo
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Online advertising doesn't need to be confusing or out of your control. Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Google launches My Ad Center to give you more control over the ads you see Chris Stokel-Walke...
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The Atlantic
Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships
Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic : Tweets: @theatlantic Tweets: @theatlantic : Amazon Publishing may not be the tech giant's best-known enterprise, but it is a quietly consequential piece of the compa...
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