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Bloomberg / Gillian Tan and Lucas Shaw / Mar 11, 2021
“The deal talks follow a tumultuous year for BuzzFeed, which laid off employees during the pandemic and lost revenue from advertising and live events. The company’s balance sheet had improved by last November, when it agreed to buy the HuffPost online news service from Verizon Communications Inc. But now it’s undergoing another round of layoffs as it pares some staffers from that acquisition.”
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