BuzzFeed, Inc. Announces Closing Of Business Combination With 890 5th Avenue Partners, Inc. and Acquisition Of Complex Networks – 890 5th Avenue Partners, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company. The combined company will begin trading on the Nasdaq as “BZFD” on Monday, December 6, 2021. Components of the company includes: BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed News, Complex Networks, HuffPost and Tasty Brands.
Sexual misconduct allegation leveled against fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo – A former co-worker of Chris Cuomo made a sexual misconduct allegation against the former CNN anchor, who was fired Saturday for misleading the cable network about the extent of the role he played trying to mitigate the sexual harassment accusations that took down his brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. [NY Post]
L.A. Times Celebrates 101 Best Restaurants of 2021 with Tasting Event and Live Reveal – The Los Angeles Times will celebrate the release of its annual 101 Best Restaurants guide with an evening of bites, drinks and a live reveal of this year’s list of the best restaurants in L.A. The launch event will take place on Dec. 7 at City Market Social House in downtown L.A. from 7 to 10 p.m., coinciding with the guide’s premiere on latimes.com, with both the launch event and the guide being presented by City National Bank. [LA Times]
Panera Unveils “Ugly” Holiday Cup Collection And Announces Unlimited Coffee Club Now Available For Gifting – In partnership with viral TikTok star, Emily Zugay, Panera is introducing a line of ugly holiday cups that are designed to bring laughter and cheer to guests nationwide. While this time of year generally means beautifully designed holiday packaging, Panera wants to remind us all that it’s what’s on the inside—the gift of unlimited, premium Panera coffee—that matters most.
This year, Panera’s industry-disrupting unlimited coffee club is available for gifting in two- and three-month packages for that special someone on your list. In celebration, Panera worked with Emily Zugay, the comedic social media personality and “graphic designer” to create this one-of-a-kind holiday collection showing it’s really what’s on the inside of the cup that counts. Emily Zugay has created four different satirical holiday cup designs to get Panera coffee drinkers in the holiday spirit this year. The limited Panera Ugly Holiday Cup Collection will be available as reusable cups to help consumers to sip on their holiday coffee, hot or iced, all-season long.
Consumers can enter for a chance to get their hands on a set of the limited run of Panera’s reusable “Ugly Holiday Cups” for free at PaneraUglyHolidayCups.com from December 2, 2021 through December 6, 2021.
FOX Weather’s Weekend Programming Simulcasts on FOX Business Network – Started Saturday, December 4th – FOX News Media’s new AVOD streaming service FOX Weather will simulcast its live weekend programing on FOX Business Network (FBN) starting Saturday, December 4th, announced FOX Weather President Sharri Berg. The simulcast marks the first time the streaming service will be made available to a linear audience since the platform launched in October 2021.
Amazon, can we have our name back? Alexas are changing their names because of Amazon’s voice assistant. After Amazon chose Alexa as the wake word of its voice service, the name’s popularity plummeted. In 2020, only about 1,300 babies were given the name. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) When I asked one of the three Alexa devices owned by Morales’s mother, which she has set to different names, about the reason for the decline, it suggested it was “perhaps as a result of its connection to Amazon Echo devices.” [Washington Post]
Fortnite Chapter 3 – Season 1 Launches Today – The island from chapter 2 has literally flipped upside down, as seen during Saturday’s live finale of Chapter 2.
