72-483: Business Insider (stylized in all caps : BUSINESS INSIDER ; known from 2021 to 2023 as INSIDER ) is a New York City –based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007. Since 2015, a majority stake in Business Insider ' s parent company Insider Inc. has been owned by the international publishing house Axel Springer . It operates several international editions, including one in
144-460: A confidentiality agreement that included a nondisparagement clause requiring them not to criticize the site during or after their employment. Early in 2020, CEO Henry Blodget convened a meeting in which he announced plans for the website to acquire 1 million subscribers, 1 billion unique visitors per month, and over 1,000 newsroom employees. The parent companies of Business Insider and eMarketer merged in 2020 in connection with
216-440: A $ 635.7 million offer by Axel for leading French real estate website operator seloger.com caused seloger shares to rise as much as 32%, the most since it went public. Within 3 days Axel increased its offer 15.6% to $ 735 million after shareholders rejected the deal. In 2012, Axel Springer formed a joint venture (Axel Springer Digital Classified) with global growth equity firm General Atlantic . The company also bought TotalJobs in
288-592: A 51% majority stake in the American television production company GRB Entertainment , but was later divested in 2002. In 2001, Axel Springer and T-Online established a joint subsidiary Bild.de/T-Online AG. A year later in 2002, the launch of immonet.de took place, and Mathias Doepfner, former editor-in-chief of Die Welt , became CEO of Axel Springer AG. Then in 2003, the name was changed to Axel Springer AG. In 2009, Axel Springer AG acquired affiliate marketers Zanox and Digital Window as well as StepStone ASA. In 2010
360-546: A Singapore bureau in September 2020. BI ' s parent company is Insider Inc. After Axel Springer SE purchased Business Insider in 2015, a substantial portion of its staff left the company. According to a CNN report, some staff who exited complained that " traffic took precedence over enterprise reporting ". In 2017, Business Insider launched BI Prime subscription, the service which placed some of its articles behind paywall. In 2018, staff members were asked to sign
432-502: A TV magazine as well. In 1948, the afternoon and evening newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt was launched, the first daily newspaper created by Axel Springer. The year 1952 saw the launch of the popular daily newspaper Bild . The paper was based on the British tabloid Daily Mirror and peaked at a circulation of 5 million in the 1980s. The Sunday paper Bild am Sonntag was launched in 1956. In 1953, Axel Springer Verlag bought
504-689: A commonly preferred alternative to all caps text is the use of small caps to emphasise key names or acronyms (for example, Text in Small Caps ), or the use of italics or (more rarely) bold . In addition, if all caps must be used it is customary to slightly widen the spacing between the letters, by around 10 per cent of the point height. This practice is known as tracking or letterspacing. Some digital fonts contain alternative spacing metrics for this purpose. Messages completely in capital letters are often equated on social media to shouting and other impolite or argumentative behaviors. This became
576-483: A computer program shouting at its user. Information technology journalist Lee Hutchinson described Microsoft's using the practice as "LITERALLY TERRIBLE ... [it] doesn't so much violate OS X's design conventions as it does take them out behind the shed, pour gasoline on them, and set them on fire." In programming, writing in all caps (possibly with underscores replacing spaces ) is an identifier naming convention in many programming languages that symbolizes that
648-495: A delicate scanning of characters (from a damaged image that needs further contextual text correction). Depending on the typeface , these similarities accidentally create various duplicates (even quite briefly and without realizing it when reading). E.g. H/A, F/E or I/T by adding a bar; P/R, O/Q, even C/G from similar errors; V/U, D/O, even B/S while rounding the shape; and more deformations implying mixings. Adding digits in all caps styled texts may multiply these confusions, which
720-470: A fully privately owned and operated media company. In September 2015, Axel Springer acquired Business Insider at a $ 442 million valuation. It purchased an additional 88% of the company for $ 343 million, bringing its total ownership to 97%. In October 2020, Axel Springer and Insider Inc. acquired Morning Brew, a media startup that focuses on business newsletters and podcasts, for around $ 75 million. The Morning Brew brand remains fully intact post-deal, and
792-399: A mainstream interpretation with the advent of networked computers, from the 1980s onward. However, a similar interpretation was already evidenced by written sources that predated the computing era, in some cases by at least a century, and the textual display of shouting or emphasis was still not a settled matter by 1984. The following sources may be relevant to the history of all caps: Before
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#1732773266665864-491: A news report which doxed and discredited several pro-Palestinian student protesters. Major competitors in the German publishing market include Bauer Media Group , Bertelsmann , Hubert Burda Media , and Holtzbrinck . On a global scale, some of the key competitors of Axel Springer include other large multinational media companies such as News Corporation, Time Warner, and The New York Times Company. These companies operate in
936-538: A pledge. He also insists that journalistic integrity remains paramount, clarifying that the company's stance does not equate to uncritical support of Israel, but recognizes its right to exist in light of historical threats. In 2017, Mark Dekan of Ringier Axel Springer Polska expressed support for European unity and the role of free media in a letter to employees, amidst political debates in Poland. His comments, which included criticism of Jarosław Kaczyński , and highlighted
1008-544: A pro-American stance, often omitting criticism of US foreign policy. This observation is then backed by allegations made by two former CIA officers in an interview with The Nation , claiming that Axel Springer received $ 7 million from the CIA. The purpose of this funding, they allege, was to influence the publisher to align its editorial content with American geopolitical interests. Although no conclusive evidence has come to light, Springer's admission in his autobiography regarding
1080-522: A series of comics that told the story of one woman's experience escaping China's persecution of Uyghurs , was created by illustrator Fahmida Azim alongside art director Anthony Del Col , writer Josh Adams , and editor Walt Hickey. Business Insider first reported a profit in the fourth quarter of 2010. As of 2011, it had 45 full-time employees. Its target audience at the time was limited to "investors and financial professionals". In June 2012, it had 5.4 million unique visitors. As of 2013, Jeff Bezos
1152-532: A slowed speed is possible – but in principle too many factors of low legibility are involved." Other critics are of the opinion that all caps letters in text are often "too tightly packed against each other". Besides the aforementioned speed of reading, all caps is can be prone to character -based ambiguities. Namely, the upper-case letters are globally simpler than their lower-case counterpart. For example, they lack ascenders and descenders . Since they are built from fewer positional and building elements (e.g.
1224-416: A smaller grid pertaining to minimalist digital fonts), they are more fragile to small changes. These variations, generally involuntary but sometimes induced on purpose, are caused by a misinterpretation (the information is transferred) or by a deterioration (the data is lost, in the analysis wording). They can occur horizontally and/or vertically, while misreading (without this extra effort or time), or during
1296-663: A source is not identified. According to the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers , Business Insider gave SAP "limited editorial control" over the content of its "Future of Business" section as of 2013. The website publishes a mix of original reporting and aggregation of other outlets' content. Business Insider has also published native advertising . In January 2009, the Clusterstock section appeared in Time ' s list of 25 best financial blogs, and
1368-663: A term is conspicuous, we look at more than formatting. A term that appears in capitals can still be inconspicuous if it is hidden on the back of a contract in small type. Terms that are in capitals but also appear in hard-to-read type may flunk the conspicuousness test. A sentence in capitals, buried deep within a long paragraph in capitals will probably not be deemed conspicuous...it is entirely possible for text to be conspicuous without being in capitals. Certain musicians—such as Marina , Finneas , who are both known mononymously, and MF DOOM —as well as some bands such as Haim and Kiss —have their names stylised in all caps. Additionally, it
1440-629: A united Europe, "reconciliation between Germans and Jews" and Israel's right to exist and a free-market economy, and that staff who disagree with the principles "should not work for Axel Springer, very clearly". In an interview with New York Magazine, Döpfner emphasized that Axel Springer's commitment to these core principles, particularly the right of Israel to exist, stems from Germany's historical context rather than activism. He claimed that while Springer employees in Germany are required to support these values, American employees are not asked to sign such
1512-416: A variety of different media sectors, including print, television, and digital, and are all major players in the global media industry. In addition to traditional media companies, Axel Springer also competes with a number of digital media platforms and companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have become increasingly influential in the media industry in recent years. These companies have disrupted
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#17327732666651584-403: Is an "apparent consensus" that lower-case text is more legible, but that some editors continue to use all caps in text regardless. In his studies of all caps in headlines , he states that, "Editors who favor capitals claim that they give greater emphasis. Those who prefer lower case claim their preferences gives greater legibility." Wheildon, who informs us that "When a person reads a line of type,
1656-615: Is common for bands with vowelless names (a process colourfully known as " disemvoweling ") to use all caps, with prominent examples including STRFKR , MSTRKRFT , PWR BTTM , SBTRKT , JPNSGRLS (now known as Hotel Mira), BLK JKS , MNDR , and DWNTWN . Miles Tinker , renowned for his landmark work, Legibility of Print , performed scientific studies on the legibility and readability of all-capital print. His findings were as follows: All-capital print greatly retards speed of reading in comparison with lower-case type. Also, most readers judge all capitals to be less legible. Faster reading of
1728-435: Is less legible and readable than lower-case text. In addition, switching to all caps may make text appear hectoring and obnoxious for cultural reasons, since all-capitals is often used in transcribed speech to indicate that the speaker is shouting. All-caps text is common in comic books, as well as on older teleprinter and radio transmission systems, which often do not indicate letter case at all. In professional documents,
1800-614: Is one aim of Leet (intentional pseudo duplicates) and can provide simple means of concealing messages (often numbers). Axel Springer SE Axel Springer SE ( German pronunciation: [ˈaksl̩ ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ ɛsˈeː] ) is a German multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company offers printing and publishing of advertisements, digital classifieds portfolio, marketing models and related services. Axel Springer's operations are segmented into News Media, Classifieds Media, and Marketing Media. The company
1872-523: Is organized as a societas Europaea (SE) publishing house and is one of the largest mass media publishers in the European Union , with numerous multimedia news brands , such as Bild , Die Welt , Fakt , and the US political news site Politico , which Axel Springer acquired in 2021. The company generated total revenues of about €3.93 billion and an EBITDA increase of 12.8% in
1944-786: Is the largest classifieds site in Israel. The website publishes real estate listings across Israel, including rental apartments and sales in Israeli settlements that are considered illegal under international law. While private users can use the website for free, business users have to pay and many a times these real estate brokers and agents are selling or renting properties in illegal settlements. German public broadcasting criticized Axel Springer in 2024 for taking their pro-Israel mission too far and that they therefore believe Palestinians and anyone who expresses criticism of Israel “must be discredited and then written against”, especially criticizing it for
2016-566: The ASCII table , so can display both alphabets, but all caps only. Mikrosha is switchable to KOI-7N1, in this mode, it can display both caps and lower-case, but in Cyrillic only. Other Soviet computers, such as BK0010 , MK 85 , Corvette and Agat-9 , use 8-bit encoding called KOI-8R, they can display both Cyrillic and Latin in caps and lower-case. Many, but not all NES games use all caps because of tile graphics, where charset and tiles share
2088-542: The Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for its reporting on the persecution of Uyghurs in China . All caps In typography , text or font in all caps (short for " all capitals ") contains capital letters without any lowercase letters. For example: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements , newspaper headlines , and
2160-773: The Silicon Alley Insider section was listed in PC Magazine ' s list of its "favorite blogs of 2009". 2009 also saw Business Insider ' s selection as an official Webby honoree for Best Business Blog. In 2012, Business Insider was named to the Inc. 500 . In 2013, the publication was once again nominated in the Blog-Business category at the Webby Awards. In January 2014, The New York Times reported that Business Insider 's web traffic
2232-573: The 1990s, more than three-quarters of newspapers in the western world used lower-case letters in headline text. Discussion regarding the use of all caps for headlines centers on the greater emphasis offered by all caps versus the greater legibility offered by lower-case letters. Colin Wheildon conducted a scientific study with 224 readers who analyzed various headline styles and concluded that "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." All caps typography
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2304-452: The 5 and 10-minute time limits, and 13.9 percent for the whole 20-minute period". Tinker concluded that, "Obviously, all-capital printing slows reading to a marked degree in comparison with Roman lower case." Tinker provides the following explanations for why all capital printing is more difficult to read: Text in all capitals covers about 35 percent more printing surface than the same material set in lower case. This would tend to increase
2376-625: The IPO of Axel Springer. Later that year, Axel Springer died; control of the company was transferred to his widow Friede Springer . In 1986, the first licensed edition of Auto Bild came out, in Italy. Other licensed editions and joint venture publications later appeared in twenty European countries, Indonesia and Thailand. In 1993, there was the official opening of the offset printing works in Berlin-Spandau. In May 1999, Axel Springer bought
2448-525: The New York Times in October 2021. These allegations were investigated by Axel Springer, which initially supported Reichelt. However, following further scrutiny, the company ultimately decided to dismiss him. Liz Fekete criticized Axel Springer-owned Welt and Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner in 2024 for their anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bias, suggesting falsely that Muslim immigrants are
2520-659: The Politico Europe partnership launched in 2014, as well as the technology news site Protocol, which was launched in 2020. The company previously held shares in aufeminin.com and buy.at . It was also a significant investor in the American digital media company Group Nine Media , before it was acquired by Vox Media. Gudrun Kruip, a scholar associated with the Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus , has claimed that Axel Springer SE, along with its subsidiaries, exhibits
2592-583: The UK from Reed Elsevier that year. In 2013, Springer sold its regional newspapers, women's magazines, and television magazines to Funke Mediengruppe for €920 million That same year, Publications Grand Public, a French magazine publisher owned by Springer, was sold to Reworld Media . The German television newsbroadcaster N24 was acquired by Axel Springer SE and combined with Die Welt . In 2020, Friede Springer transferred $ 1.5 billion of Axel Springer shares to CEO Mathias Dopfner, effectively making him heir of
2664-556: The United Kingdom. Insider publishes original reporting and aggregates material from other outlets. As of 2011, it maintained a liberal policy on the use of anonymous sources . It has also published native advertising and granted sponsors editorial control of its content. The outlet has been nominated for several awards, but has also been criticized for using factually incorrect clickbait headlines to attract viewership. In 2015, Axel Springer SE acquired 88 percent of
2736-570: The United States, Axel Springer is ranked among the top four digital publishers, alongside USA Today, News Corp, and The New York Times. In 1946, publisher Hinrich Springer (age 66) and his son Axel Springer (age 34) established the limited company Axel Springer Verlag GmbH. That year saw the launch of the Nordwestdeutsche Hefte and the radio and Hörzu , which was originally launched as a radio broadcast but later became
2808-655: The attack on the student leader Rudi Dutschke on 11 April 1968, the APO (Extra-Parliamentary Opposition) began acts of violence against the company. The APO had a history of animosity with the Springer Group's allegedly biased coverage of the student movement. For instance, in the wake of the killing of Benno Ohnesorg by the police at a student demonstration against the Shah, one Springer paper reported that "what happened yesterday in Berlin had nothing to do with politics …. It
2880-410: The business will operate completely independently with Insider Inc. The company’s co-founders retain a sizeable minority stake and have an earn-out clause built into the deal. In October 2021, the firm announced that it had completed the acquisition of Politico for over $ 1 billion, after announcing its intention to do so in late August 2021. Along with the deal, Axel Springer took full control of
2952-533: The company's perceived alignment with American interests. Furthermore, an article in Foreign Policy has critiqued Axel Springer SE for a history of compromising journalistic ethics to support right-wing causes, implying a longstanding pattern of bias in its publications. Upon acquisition of Insider in 2015, and again in 2021 with Politico, Mathias Döpfner allegedly stated that staff would need to adhere to Axel Springer's principles, including support for
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3024-411: The company's values and the importance of European integration, especially among younger Poles, was interpreted by critics as editorial interference. In March 2021, Der Spiegel reported accusations that the editor of Bild, Julian Reichelt , had promoted several young female employees in exchange for sex and sought to buy their silence before dismissing them. This was followed up by a similar report in
3096-458: The complex retail industry and make the best purchasing decisions. In October 2016, Business Insider started Markets Insider as a joint venture with Finanzen.net, another Axel Springer company. Glenn Greenwald has critiqued the reliability of Business Insider , along with that of publications including The Wall Street Journal , Yahoo! News , and Slate . In 2010, Business Insider falsely reported that New York Governor David Paterson
3168-462: The development of lower-case letters in the 8th century, texts in the Latin alphabet were written in a single case, which is now considered to be capital letters. Text in all caps is not widely used in body copy . The main exception to this is the so-called fine print in legal documents. Capital letters have been widely used in printed headlines from the early days of newspapers until the 1950s. In
3240-534: The evidence that all-capital printing retards speed of reading to a striking degree in comparison with lower case and is not liked by readers, it would seem wise to eliminate such printing whenever rapid reading and consumer (reader) views are of importance. Examples of this would include any continuous reading material, posters, bus cards, billboards, magazine advertising copy, headings in books, business forms and records, titles of articles, books and book chapters, and newspaper headlines. Colin Wheildon stated that there
3312-538: The eye recognizes letters by the shapes of their upper halves", asserts that recognizing words in all caps "becomes a task instead of a natural process". His conclusions, based on scientific testing in 1982–1990, are: "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." John Ryder , in the Case for Legibility , stated that "Printing with capital letters can be done sufficiently well to arouse interest and, with short lines, reading at
3384-547: The financial challenges faced at the outset of his publishing venture, suggesting the necessity of external funding for the company's rapid growth led Kruip to believe that the allegations of CIA financial support are credible. As of 2001, the Axel Springer SE names "solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America" as one of its core principles on its website. This explicit stance has led to critiques from scholars and independent observers regarding
3456-433: The first half of 2023. Following US private-equity firm KKR 's majority-stake acquisition in 2020, Axel Springer’s revenues have increased by a total of approximately €1 billion. The company, including its subsidiaries, joint ventures, and licenses, operates in more than 40 countries. The company was started in 1946 by journalist Axel Springer . Mathias Döpfner became its CEO in 2002. In 2004, Axel Springer company,
3528-569: The given identifier represents a constant . A practice exists (most commonly in Francophone countries) of distinguishing the surname from the rest of a personal name by stylizing the surname only in all caps. This practice is also common among Japanese, when names are spelled using Roman letters. In April 2013, the U.S. Navy moved away from an all caps-based messaging system, which was begun with 1850s-era teleprinters that had only uppercase letters. The switch to mixed-case communications
3600-662: The largest publishing house in Europe at that time, controlled the largest German market share for daily newspapers; 23.6%, largely because its flagship tabloid Bild is the highest-circulation newspaper in Europe with a daily readership exceeding 12 million. By 2022, the company got 10.6% of the market share in Germany. October 2022 data indicates that Axel Springer's BILD brands attract approximately six million unique users daily, totaling up to 40 million unique users per month. IVW 's data from June 2023 shows BILD receiving 504 million monthly visits and WELT achieving 127 million. In
3672-567: The lower-case print is due to the characteristic word forms furnished by this type. This permits reading by word units, while all capitals tend to be read letter by letter. Furthermore, since all-capital printing takes at least one-third more space than lower case, more fixation pauses are required for reading the same amount of material. The use of all capitals should be dispensed with in every printing situation. According to Tinker, "As early as 1914, Starch reported that material set in Roman lower case
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#17327732666653744-600: The main source of antisemitism , ignoring that the majority of antisemitic incidents are actually caused by the far-right . She also criticized the company for uncritically adopting Israel's talking points on the Middle East conflict , to the disadvantage of Palestinians . Axel Springer has also been accused of making profits from illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Axel Springer’s Israeli classified ads website Yad2
3816-775: The media group. Under the arrangement, Friede Springer sold a 4.1% stake to Dopfner and gifted him 15% more- bringing Dopfner’s direct stake of the company to 22%. She also transferred voting rights to Dopfner for her remaining 22% in the business. In October of the same year, the company expanded its Berlin headquarters with the completion of the Axel Springer Campus, a cube-shaped office building designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA . In October 2021, an article in The New York Times reported accusations of sexual misconduct, sexual discrimination and questionable business practices at Axel Springer SE. A day later,
3888-523: The opportunity to add marginal notes emphasising key points. Legal writing expert Bryan A. Garner has described the practice as "ghastly". A 2020 study found that all-caps in legal texts is ineffective and is, in fact, harmful to older readers. In 2002, a US court spoke out against the practice, ruling that simply making text all-capitals has no bearing on whether it is clear and easily readable: Lawyers who think their caps lock keys are instant "make conspicuous" buttons are deluded. In determining whether
3960-459: The proposed purchase of Axel Springer by KKR , an American private equity firm. In October 2020, BI ' s parent company purchased a majority position in Morning Brew , a newsletter. In 2022, Insider won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary , its first ever Pulitzer Prize, for its illustrated report "How I escaped a Chinese internment camp". The piece, composed as
4032-446: The publisher fired the editor-in-chief of Bild . In July 2024, reports emerged that Axel Springer and private equity group KKR were in talks to potentially split the media conglomerate. The proposed deal would separate the group's media assets, including Politico, Business Insider, Bild, and Die Welt, from its digital classifieds operations such as StepStone and Aviv. The split was confirmed in September 2024 and Axel Springer became
4104-639: The publishing house Die Welt, including the daily paper Die Welt and the Sunday paper Welt am Sonntag . Construction on the company headquarters in Hamburg began in 1950 and was completed in 1956. In 1956, Axel Springer secured a blocking minority in Ullstein Verlag , and three years later he took over the company completely. ullstein bild is a brand for the photo collection (since 1877), now under Axel Springer Syndication GmbH. This
4176-489: The reading time. When this is combined with the difficulty in reading words in all-capital letters as units, the hindrance to rapid reading becomes marked. In the eye-movement study by Tinker and Patterson, the principal difference in oculomotor patterns between lower case and all capitals was the very large increase in number of fixation pauses for reading the all-capital print. All caps text should be eliminated from most forms of composition, according to Tinker: Considering
4248-572: The same ROM. Game designers often choose to have less characters in favor of more tiles. With the advent of the bulletin board system , or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps commonly became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behavior, and may be considered rude. Its equivalence to shouting traces back to at least 1984 and before the Internet, back to printed typography usage of all capitals to mean shouting. For this reason, etiquette generally discourages
4320-549: The site began as a consolidation of industry vertical blogs, the first of them being Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008). Gordon Crovitz , former publisher of the Wall Street Journal , was an early investor. In addition to providing and analyzing business news, the site aggregates news stories on various subjects. It started a UK edition in November 2014, and
4392-559: The stake in Insider Inc. for $ 343 million (€306 million), implying a total valuation of $ 442 million. From February 2021 to November 2023, the brand was named simply Insider while it published general news and lifestyle content, before its name was reverted. Business Insider was launched in 2007 and is based in Manhattan . Founded by DoubleClick 's former CEO Kevin P. Ryan , Dwight Merriman , and Henry Blodget ,
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#17327732666654464-419: The technology website Tech Insider , with a staff of 40 people working primarily from the company's existing New York headquarters, but originally separated from the main Business Insider newsroom. However, Tech Insider was eventually folded into the Business Insider website. Also in 2015, Business Insider launched Insider Picks , the precursor to what is now Insider Reviews , to help shoppers navigate
4536-425: The titles on book covers. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym . Studies have been conducted on the readability and legibility of all caps text. Scientific testing from the 20th century onward has generally indicated that all caps text
4608-581: The use of all caps when posting messages online. While all caps can be used as an alternative to rich-text "bolding" for a single word or phrase, to express emphasis, repeated use of all caps can be considered "shouting" or irritating. Some aspects of Microsoft's Metro design language involve the use of all caps headings and titles. This has received particular attention when menu and ribbon titles appeared in all caps in Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 , respectively. Critics have compared this to
4680-460: Was a Business Insider investor; his investment company Bezos Expeditions held approximately 3 percent of the company as of its acquisition in 2015. In 2015, Axel Springer SE acquired 88 percent of the stake in Insider Inc. for $ 343 million (€306 million), implying a total valuation of $ 442 million. Business Insider operates a paid division titled BI Intelligence , established in 2013. In July 2015, Business Insider began
4752-580: Was common on teletype machines, such as those used by police departments, news, and the United States' then-called Weather Bureau , as well as early computers, such as certain early Apple II models and the ZX81 , which had a limited support for lower-case text. This changed as full support of ASCII became standard, allowing lower-case characters. Some Soviet computers , such as Radio-86RK , Vector-06C , Agat-7 , use 7-bit encoding called KOI-7N2, where capital Cyrillic letters replace lower-case Latin letters in
4824-593: Was comparable to that of The Wall Street Journal . In 2017, Digiday included imprint Insider as a candidate in two separate categories—"Best New Vertical" and "Best Use of Instagram"—at their annual Publishing Awards. The website has faced criticism for what critics consider its clickbait -style headlines. A 2013 profile of Blodget and Business Insider in The New Yorker suggested that Business Insider , because it republishes material from other outlets, may not always be accurate. In 2022, Insider won
4896-561: Was criminal in the most sickening way." In fact, Ohnesorg, who had never attended a demonstration before, had been shot in the back while trying to leave the demonstration. The years 1972 and 1973 saw the building of the offset-printing plant in Essen-Kettwig. 1984 witnessed the official opening of the offset printing facility in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. In 1985, 49% of the company was offered for public subscription, marking
4968-496: Was estimated to save the Navy $ 20 million a year and is compliant with current Internet protocol. An antiquated practice that still remains in use, especially by older American lawyers who grew up before the arrival of computers, is to use all caps text for text that is legally required to be emphasised and clearly readable. The practice dates to the period of typewriters, which generally did not offer bold text, small capitals, or
5040-591: Was followed in 1959 by the purchase of the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost . When Springer took over the Ullstein publishing house in December 1959, the B.Z. also became its property. Two days before the end of the Soviet ultimatum in Berlin , Axel Springer laid the foundation stone for the new publishing headquarters on 25 May 1959. The official opening of the Berlin headquarters took place in 1966. After
5112-427: Was read somewhat faster than similar material printed in all capitals." Another study in 1928 showed that "all-capital text was read 11.8 percent slower than lower case, or approximately 38 words per minute slower", and that "nine-tenths of adult readers consider lower case more legible than all capitals". A 1955 study by Miles Tinker showed that "all-capital text retarded speed of reading from 9.5 to 19.0 percent for
5184-419: Was slated to resign; BI had earlier reported a false story alleging that Steve Jobs experienced a heart attack. In April 2011, Blodget sent out a notice inviting publicists to "contribute directly" to Business Insider. As of September 2011, Business Insider allowed the use of anonymous sources "at any time for any reason", a practice which many media outlets prefer to avoid or at least indicate why
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