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Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC, according to a filing with the SEC. These blank-check…

Group Nine Media forms a SPAC to fund acquisitions

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PopSugar co-founder says pandemic will create ‘a huge windfall’ for digital media

It’s been less than a year since Group Nine Media acquired PopSugar — but it’s been a uniquely challenging time in digital media. Brian Sugar founded the eponymous women’s lifestyle site with his wife Lisa Sugar. Post-acquisition, he’s become president for the entirety of Group Nine (which also owns Thrillist,…

PopSugar co-founder says pandemic will create ‘a huge windfall’ for digital media

Group Nine — the digital media company formed by the merger of Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo and Seeker — just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire women’s…

Group Nine acquires PopSugar

I thought the worst thing about Popsugar’s Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden. Turns out, the hundreds of thousands of selfies uploaded to the tool were…

Popsugar’s Twinning app was leaking everyone’s uploaded photos

We’ve heard PopSugar is the latest online content company that Japanese conglomerate Rakuten is about to snap up. These things could always fall apart, but should the deal go through, we’re told it…

Rakuten Is Looking To Acquire PopSugar For $580 Million

Content and commerce company PopSugar has acquired PICT, a startup which makes technology that enables users to make photos “shoppable.” With the acquisition, PopSugar hopes to make it easier for…

PopSugar Acquires Shoppable Photo Startup PICT

Sugar Inc.’s flagship celebrity news and photo blog, PopSugar, has launched its 3rd annual PopSugar 100 tournament. It’s kind of like the NCAA’s March Madness, except this single-elimination contest is…

Blog network Sugar Publishing (the most popular blog in the network is PopSugar) has raised “around $5 million” in a Series A round investment from Sequoia Capital. Michael Moritz will…

Hear About PopSugar Yet?

If you haven’t heard of San Francisco-based PopSugar yet, prepare yourself. You are going to start hearing about them a lot in the mainstream press. They are a blog network,…