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NBCUniversal invests $200 million in BuzzFeed

August 18, 2015 admin buzzfeed, comcast, employees-work, intern-at-their, latest, media, offer-valuable, owns-the-nbc, said-it-aims, said-on-tuesday, shahista-lalani, the-media, tuesday, young-people

(Reuters) – Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal said on Tuesday it had invested $200 million in online publisher BuzzFeed, the latest move by the media conglomerate to tap into a younger audience.

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NBCUniversal close to investing in BuzzFeed: source

July 30, 2015 publisher 449-6-million, employees-work, expedia, general-motors, larger-dividend, media, television-unit, thomson-reuters

Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal film and television unit is close to making an investment in online publisher BuzzFeed and is in talks to raise its stake in Vox Media, a person with knowledge of both sets of discussions said on Thursday.

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U.S. creates new agency to lead cyberthreat tracking

February 10, 2015 admin california, cyber, cyber-threat, employees-work, florida, from-various, more-spectrum, national, obama, president, senators-marco, the-information, the-wireless, wilson-center

By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyberthreats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said the new agency will rapidly pool and disseminate data on cyberbreaches, which she said are ballooning in size and sophistication, to U.S