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A Plus (aplus.com, also written A+) is a technology-based digital media company based in New York City. The company delivers its content through a website and a mobile app, with a focus on positive journalism. The company states that it "strive() to deliver positive journalism to readers, with the intention of making a meaningful difference in the world by highlighting our common humanity, promoting personal growth, and inspiring social change."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://aplus.com/about )〕 A Plus was co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, Evan Beard, and Kendall Dabaghi and officially launched on January 27, 2015. The company’s editorial team includes former journalists from The New York Times and Huffington Post. The site has approximately 50 million unique monthly visitors with an average of 100 million page views per month. According to Quantcast in November 2014, A Plus was a top 50 website and a top 11 mobile site in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/a-is-changing-how-content-is-created-and-syndicated-online-with-its-new-social-driven-technology-platform-300026054.html )〕 The company was ranked by Business Insider as #13 on its 2015 list of New York City's hottest startups. In November 2015, Inc. ranked the company #8 on its 2015 list of the 10 Best New Company Names. ==History== A Plus started as a "product discovery service" in late 2013.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends )〕 It was started by Ashton Kutcher (chairman of the board) and Evan Beard (CEO), who had met at Y Combinator, and by Kendall Dabaghi (president), who had met Beard at Duke University.〔〔 A Plus unofficially began in its current incarnation as a social content website in April 2014 in Los Angeles.〔 In summer of 2014 it moved to New York. In August 2014, the Wall Street Journal's Chief Digital Sales Officer, Brad Westbrook, joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. The site officially launched in January 2015.〔 A Plus (aplus.com) is unrelated to A.plus, which was a desktop Twitter app built by UberMedia for Kutcher in 2011. Kutcher had stopped work on the app before teaming with Beard and Dabaghi to build A Plus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Plus (aplus.com)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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