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Six Months After Acquisition, Magnify Rebrands And Relaunches As Waywire

Last fall, Magnify acquired Waywire in an effort to create more efficiency around video curation. The idea behind the acquisition was to combine the former's enterprise video curation business with th

How Money And Politics Brought Waywire And Magnify Together

It's official: Today, New York City-based startup Magnify has acquired Waywire, the once-hyped startup founded by <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/16/cory-booker-and-the-silicon-valley-makeover

Magnify Is Buying Waywire To Build A Consumer-Facing Video Curation Powerhouse

New York-based video startup Magnify is in the process of acquiring Waywire, the company that Cory Booker founded, to build a consumer-facing business around the curation of videos online. The deal is

Cory Booker Is Stepping Down From Waywire’s Board As The Company Seeks A New CEO

Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker is announcing today that he will be stepping down from the board of the company that he founded last year, according to a source familiar with the campaig

Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation

The CEO of <a target="_blank" href="http://waywire.com/">Waywire</a> -- the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker -- is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resigna

Cory Booker’s #Waywire Becomes A “Pinterest For Video” With Refocus On Curation

Where do you put the videos you find around the web, and how do they express your identity? #Waywire 2.0 aims to be the answer. Co-founded by Newark Mayor Cory Booker and launched nine months ago, Way

The Weekly Good: Cory Booker On Public Service, Twitter, And…Burning Buildings

<strong>[Note: This is the first of a weekly series, if your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:drew@be

Cory Booker: “Mark Zuckerberg Is An American Hero”

When discussing social media and how he uses it for his political work as mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker called out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg as an "American Hero" for his work on connectin

Cory Booker: The Power Of The People Is More Important Than People In Power

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in San Francisco. We all know him as the Mayor who has taken Twitter by storm, and also the fellow who has no problem jum

Hands On With #waywire, Cory Booker’s Video Service That Turns You Into A Newscaster

Don’t let big media decide what’s important. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.waywire.com/">#waywire</a> enters private alpha today to let you collect, curate, and <a href="https://techcrunch.c

#waywire, Cory Booker’s Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice

"There's an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up" Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he's building <a target="_blank" href="http://waywire.com/">#waywire</a>, a news site that