The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

When McKenna Rogers landed a job on Pinterest’s finance team in 2018, she felt like she’d arrived. The year before, Forbes included Pinterest in a list of companies where women most like to work. Three years later, stories from former employees about inequality and insensitivity have poked holes in Pinterest’s friendly aesthetic.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 6, 2022

Pinterest is enforcing a new climate misinformation policy to combat any type of content that denies the existence or impact of climate change, or spreads false information about natural disasters or extreme weather events. Read more.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 22, 2021

Pinterest senior VP Jeremy King talked with VentureBeat about how the company's data strategy fuels changes. Read More.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

Pinterest’s new hair pattern search feature. Image: Pinterest. Pinterest is launching a search tool to help people narrow their hair inspiration searches by hair pattern. The new feature builds on Pinterest’s skin tone search filters , which were introduced in 2018.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft reportedly approached social media company Pinterest in recent months regarding an acquisition.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Pinterest employees are staging a virtual walkout today to protest discrimination and retaliation at the company. The move follows news that former COO Françoise Brougher is suing Pinterest for gender discrimination and retaliation. In a statement, Pinterest said it respects employees’ decision to walk out. “The

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Pinterest is settling a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by former COO Françoise Brougher for $22.5 Pinterest and Brougher will also jointly contribute $2.5 Both said they were underpaid despite leading major initiatives at Pinterest, including banning anti-vax posts and putting an end to the promotion of plantation weddings.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking of share value, Pinterest is currently trading up nearly 14 percent on the day at $63.37 as of this writing.

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Gizmodo

MAY 14, 2021

Image-sharing social network Pinterest is diving into the live events space, TechCrunch first reported on Friday. Read more.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 12, 2020

High level: Lipstick is fun. The quality of the experiences has improved dramatically since Apple and Google got involved a few years ago. AR applications within the cosmetics industry have come a long way from the static capabilities we saw in 2011. Before, I could try out nail polish colors on […].

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like other online platforms, Pinterest reaped the benefits of an uptick in e-commerce advertising during the holiday season. Pinterest had 459 global million monthly active users (MAUs) in the fourth quarter, up from 442 million in its third quarter. Pinterest is experimenting with sponsored story pins.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 21, 2021

Pinterest senior VP Jeremy King talked with VentureBeat about changes the company's data strategy have made possible. Read More.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 13, 2020

Following damning allegations of gender discrimination that surfaced in a lawsuit filed earlier this week by the company’s former chief operating officer, Françoise Brougher, it appears Pinterest employees are organizing a walkout tomorrow, Aug. Read more.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2021

Pinterest said Thursday it is updating its ad policies to “prohibit all ads with weight loss language and imagery.” Pinterest is the place people come for inspiration to create life they love,” the blog post reads. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. It’s where everyone belongs—regardless of body shape or size.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Pinterest is upgrading its skin tone search feature, which uses machine vision to sort pins in the site’s beauty category by skin tone. The feature is designed to make it easier for users to find content relevant to them, says Pinterest. Image: Pinterest. Pinterest’s Try On feature lets users try on lipstick shades in AR.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 11, 2020

Pinterest's augmented reality lipstick Try on feature now covers over 10,000 shoppable shades discoverable across 48 million beauty Pins. Read More.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Pinterest has settled a lawsuit brought against it by shareholders who claimed that the company’s workplace discrimination against women and racial minorities hurt its reputation, according to NBC News. Pinterest and Brougher agreed to jointly donate over $2 million to charities supporting women and minorities in tech.).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The law firm spoke with 350 current and former Pinterest employees over the course of its five-month investigation. Pinterest’s board has already unanimously voted to adopt the recommendations, which were shared with employees on Wednesday and posted publicly on the company’s website.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

Facebook’s iOS SDK is causing a number of popular iPhone apps to crash today , including Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder. It will allow apps like Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder to launch during a Facebook iOS SDK outage, and it’s completely free to use. Spotify, Pinterest, Tinder or other iPhone apps crashing for you?

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Gizmodo

APRIL 2, 2021

The online pinboard site Pinterest is reportedly in talks to scoop up VSCO, a photo-editing and sharing app that you may remember for inspiring a teen subculture back in 2019. Negotiations remain ongoing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told the New York Times , and there’s still no word on a possible price… Read more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image: Pinterest. Pinterest is adding a “Try On for Home Decor” feature to its app , letting you see furniture from stores like Crate & Barrel, CB2, Walmart, West Elm, and Wayfair in your house through the power of augmented reality. Image: Pinterest. Trying out a West Elm chair in the Pinterest app.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Pinterest shareholders are suing the company’s top executives, including CEO Ben Silbermann, for allegedly enabling a culture of discrimination. The CEO “repeatedly placed himself before the Company, surrounding himself with yes-men and marginalizing women who dared to challenge Pinterest’s White, male leadership clique,” the complaint says.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 12, 2020

Pinterest might be known as a platform that caters to our nation’s moms and brides and makeup artists , but behind the scenes, the company may not be the female-friendly environment you’d imagine. Read more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Pinterest now displays a row of stories at the top of its home screen when you open up the app. Story Pins” were introduced to Pinterest in September. Story Pins” were introduced to Pinterest in September. Pinterest still has one big limitation around Story Pins, though: not everyone can create them.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

Pinterest has been battered with accusations of workplace discrimination for many months, and we’ve followed a large portion of that saga here at The Verge. That includes, most recently, how Ifeoma Ozoma, a former Pinterest employee who accused the company of trying to silence her, helped draft California’s new Silenced No More Act.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I have learned that a Pinterest widget will roll out wide on iOS 14 today, and reader, I am elated. Read more.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

A number of popular apps and services including Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder are currently broken on iOS devices, with early analysis suggesting Facebook is to blame. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Is anyone else having issues opening.any apps on iPhone? pic.twitter.com/JjEkkojVWa — Rosie Percy (@rosiepercy) July 10, 2020.

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Venture Beast

MAY 19, 2020

Chromium Edge is getting Pinterest suggestions, sidebar search, syncing, work and personal profile switching, and Windows Information Protection support. Read More.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 8, 2021

You might not think of Pinterest as being as creator-driven as some of its contemporaries, but that’s an image the company clearly wants to change. This week, the company rolled out a buffet of new creator-focused features in the moderation space, with a focus on playing nice. Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

To exist online with a pulse in the year 2012 was to understand the cesspool of “thinspiration”-style content that proliferated on platforms like Tumblr, Xanga and Pinterest, and more recently, the rise of “influencer”… Read more. Social media has long been the bane and the muse of anyone suffering from an eating disorder.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

However, the dramatic explosion in the number of consumer mobile devices with cameras and in the amount of visual content and sharing on platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok make it crucial for marketers to break down these images […].

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When Ifeoma Ozoma came forward with allegations of discrimination and racism at Pinterest, she was prepared. Ifeoma Ozoma poses for a portrait outside her home in New Mexico on February 20th, 2021. Photo by Gabriela Campos for The Verge. She had a list of reporters on deck to share her story. She’d already hired a lawyer.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 31, 2024

Pinterest, TikTok, and LinkedIn are all used by roughly a third or less of the adult population, but TikTok is a unique case. Meta-owned Instagram is the third most popular social platform, used by nearly half (47 percent) of American adults. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 2, 2020

Facebook in late 2018 set its sights on Chinese video-sharing social media platform TikTok with the launch of Lasso. The short-form sharing app, for Android and iOS, allowed users to record videos up to 15 seconds in length, overlay music on top and share them with others.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2023

Customers include Zillow Group, Pinterest, and others. Avalara, which went public in 2018, was acquired late last year by Vista Equity Partners in a $8.4 billion deal. The company has more than 30,000 customers that use its compliance automation software to manage their sales and other types of taxes.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 3, 2013

Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. 13 energy data startups to watch in 2013 - GigaOM has a great list of Big Data startups to worry about in the near future. These big data startups focus on helping energy firms.'

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

The former COO of Pinterest is suing the company for gender discrimination. Brougher, who previously worked as the Global Business Lead at Square and as a VP on the advertising team at Google, according to her LinkedIn , learned of the salary inequalities when Pinterest was preparing to go public in 2019. what is your job anyway?”.

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