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Render Media, the parent company of social recipe site Cooking Panda, appears to be the latest casualty of Facebook's news feed changes.

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'Nobody is using it': Amazon Spark is not taking off with brands, agencies

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"No brands that we work with have asked about it.”

Onetime social publishing star Cooking Panda is shutting down

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The startup behind Opposing Views and social recipe site Cooking Panda confirmed it is shutting down in the wake of Facebook’s recent algorithm changes.

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