Peter Kafka

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Reddit Lands Facebook Vet Yishan Wong as CEO

Reddit has a new CEO. Former Facebook engineer Yishan Wong is joining the rapidly growing social news site, which owner Conde Nast is spinning out as a separate company — in part, so it could recruit people like Wong. “I’m not looking to step in and make ‘big, bold changes’ — I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline,” Wong wrote on a blog post announcing his move.

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Nobody was excited about paying top dollar for a movie about WikiLeaks. A film about the origins of Pets.com would have done better.

— Gitesh Pandya of BoxOfficeGuru.com comments on the dreadful opening weekend box office numbers for “The Fifth Estate.”