Rafael Urbina Quintero, CEO and Chairman of Vix, discusses the company's global audience, which focuses on Hispanic and Latin American communities across the world.
Urbina-Quintero discusses how the platform has changed since its 1999 founding, now focused on reaching audiences through video and mobile. We discuss how that platform seeks to bring audiences information of the moment, but does not claim to be a news site like Buzzfeed or NBC.
Instead, the focus is on engaging millennials through various lifestyle brands that generate cross-platform engagement.
Tech apprenticeship platform Multiverse became a unicorn with a $1.7 billion valuation, after raising $220 million in a Series D round. As companies across the country face challenges in hiring and retaining tech talent, Multiverse says it's trying to offer a solution with a new way to train and hire workers that can serve as an alternative to college and corporate training. Sophie Ruddock, VP and GM North America of Multiverse, joins Cheddar News' Closing Bell to discuss.
Cheddar's Kristen Scholer caught up with all-time NBA great Shaquille O'Neal in his hometown of Newark, NJ, working with Icy Hot to repair rundown basketball courts around the country. The Hall of Famer also spoke about the current NBA finals between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors and had a lot of praise for the Warrior's guard Stephen Curry. "He's the greatest shooter of all time. I had a conversation with Stephen A. [Smith], where does he rank? He's a special player. He has his own category," Shaq said.