Ev Williams' Medium has hired a veteran publishing exec as it seeks to grow paid subscriptions, stirring speculation it's trying to take on Apple News

Lucia Moses | The former longtime BuzzFeed exec Scott Lamb is now vice president of publisher growth and strategy, reporting to the editorial VP Siobhan O'Connor.

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Facebook is reviewing hundreds of its official 'Facebook Marketing Partners' over Instagram data-scraping issues

Rob Price | Instagram is cracking down after Business Insider found evidence of user data being scraped and misused — in some cases by its own partners.

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Startups want a cut of your future earnings, but one tech investor likens the rise in income share agreements to 'indentured servitude'

Megan Hernbroth | Lambda School, an online coding course, is widely credited with popularizing the income share agreement model among venture capital investors.

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Microsoft performance reviews used to be hyper-competitive 'stack rankings.' Then Satya Nadella drove the culture toward collaboration — here's how they work now, according to HR chief Kathleen Hogan.

Sherin Shibu | Microsoft's performance reviews involve three main criteria— individual impact is just one. Now the tech giant optimizes for inclusion and innovation.

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Herding cows and hiring private investigators: Wealth advisers told us their stories about next-level requests from uber-rich clients

Rebecca Ungarino,Meghan Morris | We heard stories about finding a classically trained personal butler, locating a qualified cowboy, and teaching client kids about the family's wealth.

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Drug trials are too white and too male. Here's how Swiss pharma giant Roche is trying to change that.

Emma Court | The path that they took to get there speaks to both the problems companies can encounter in this space and what it takes to overcome them.

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Why WeWork's $47 billion private valuation could be a key stumbling block for its IPO — and might even derail it completely

Troy Wolverton | NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway thinks WeWork is worth about one-tenth of its private valuation. He's not alone in questioning it.

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OTT players like Pluto TV and Tubi are ramping up ad spend to get ahead of the upcoming onslaught of new streaming TV

Lauren Johnson | As more media companies launch new streaming TV services, advertising-supported companies seek to capitalize on increasing subscription fatigue.

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Goldman Sachs and Kleiner Perkins-backed mortgage startup Better.com, which just raised $160 million, is planning a spree to hire 400 people in 4 months

Alex Morrell | Better, a digital service that strips away fees and lengthy wait times from the mortgage process, said Monday it had closed its latest funding round.

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