Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the satirical site
The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.
Analysis of Joe Biden's YouTube, which has just 32,000 subscribers, shows his weakness against Trump's online presence, especially as campaigning goes virtual
The coronavirus has forced the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee into an all-digital campaign, and he's struggling to break through. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @asemota , @ryangrim , @nytime...
Study: top reporter ranked by Facebook engagement is from The Onion, others are from sites like Breitbart and Daily Wire; two in top 50 are from fake news sites
wait, huh, what's that? Oh, you're saying the top reporter on Facebook was LITERALLY a writer for The Onion? huh. OK. http://www.newswhip.com/... http://twitter.com/... Stephen Miller / @redsteeze : A...
The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
Social security numbers … Phil Windley / Phil Windley's Technometria : Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers Guise Bule / Hacker Noon : Lies & Extortion: How Equifax, Fire Eye & The Darknet Threw Oil O...
Facebook is in talks with several media firms, including Vice, The Onion, and Vox Media, to produce high quality short-form sponsored videos
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Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit and watch cat videos
No, this is not the Onion, it's not April Fools, and I'm not making this up. All of this comes straight from Verizon, or more specifically, a case study from 2012 outlined by its security team.
“Respect Explorer's Heritage”
When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple f...
Israeli parody details the rise and fall of Apple's iBoy, humanity as a whole (video)
For those unaware, Eretz Nehederet is effectively the Israeli equivalent to The Onion, and on the 1st of April, they covered the hardest-hitting piece of Apple news to cross their news desk in quite s...
Microsoft seeks to toss Apple ‘App Store’ brief, says font too small
In the legendary rivalry between Microsoft and Apple, there have been many subjects of dispute. But this may be a first. And no, the headline above is not from The Onion. — Microsoft, opposing Ap...
The Onion Said To Be Negotiating Sale
The Onion this month told staff that resisting advertiser pressure is a “losing game.” But it seems the humor publication isn't just keen to sell its soul to sponsors; we hear The Onion is talking ab...