Curated playlist
2020 mergers and acquisitions
- GameSpotGameSpot's editorial director was fired in 2007 after a 6 out of 10 review.
- MiramaxDisney wanted The Lord of the Rings cut to one film, and Peter Jackson refused. Miramax sold the rights to New Line.
- MetacriticFallout: New Vegas fell one Metacritic point short of its bonus threshold. Obsidian later had layoffs.
- StubHubStubHub began when Eric Baker struggled to find a secondhand Lion King ticket.
- TubiA Tubi ad in Super Bowl LVII faked a broadcast cutout, as if a viewer had switched to Tubi.
- CNETZiff Davis bought CNET in 2024 for $100 million, after selling it ZDNet for about $1.6 billion.
- GameFAQsOn April 1, 2002, GameFAQs renamed itself "GameFAX" as an Xbox-only site. Jeff Veasey's prank drew hate mail.
- Ebony (magazine)Ebony magazine's first issue sold out all 25,000 copies in 1945. John H. Johnson wanted a self-affirming voice.
- Baskin-RobbinsBaskin-Robbins has introduced more than 1,400 flavors since it opened its first shop in 1945. That is an enormous catalog for a business that began with two men and a few small stores in Southern California. Today the chain is owned by…
- EuronewsEuronews began as Europe's answer to CNN's Persian Gulf War coverage. It first went on air from Lyon on January 1, 1993.
- Chuck E. CheeseChuck E. Cheese, the American pizza and arcade chain, owes its name to a costume that turned out to be the wrong animal. While his first animatronic show was being assembled, Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, discovered that the outfit…
- HuffPostHuffPost was bought in 2020 by a company led by one of its own co-founders. BuzzFeed paid in stock, not cash.