A few years back, Tumblr looked like the leader in Internet publishing. Now Verizon, the faded disruptor’s parent company, is eagerly trying to unload Tumblr.
Facebook banned several high-profile extremist figures from its social network, expelling Alex Jones, a radio-show host and conspiracy theorist, Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart contributor, and Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, among others.
Former billionaire John Kapoor was found guilty of conspiring to bribe clinics to prescribe his company’s fentanyl spray medication. (Kapoor originally developed the product after watching his wife die of breast cancer. “Pain is such a misunderstood thing for cancer patients. Nobody understands pain. They think pain is just pain,” he told Forbes in 2016. Read more from our original investigation of Kapoor and his company, Insys.)
CBS has a huge hole to fill this fall now that The Big Bang Theory has ended—and there’s little in its lineup right now to take its place.
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Immortals, a professional e-sports team, raised $30 million in funding from billionaires Meg Whitman and Philip Anschutz, as well as Hollywood studio Lionsgate. “With esports, you’re dealing with a gaming constituency that’s an attractive demographic”—young, highly engaged with the product, both men and women—“and also an elusive demographic,” says Lionsgate’s Peter Levin, who is also Immortals’ chairman.
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