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Homejoy shuts down, unable to raise a large enough round after facing slow growth — Homejoy Shuts Down After Battling Worker Classification Lawsuits — Cleaning services company Homejoy is shutting down on July 31 after struggling to raise a big enough round of funding.
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Google Hires Tech Team From Homejoy, Readies Leap Into Home Services Market — Google is preparing to stomp into yet another market: Home services. To do so, the search giant is scooping up the technical team behind Homejoy, the startup that connected online users with professional cleaners.
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Sources: Hulu exploring an ad-free option for about $12-$14/month, launching as early as fall — Hulu Explores Adding Ad-Free Option to Its Service — Option could launch as early as this fall and be priced at around $12 to $14 a month — Hulu is exploring plans to add an advertising-free option …
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Windows 10 updates will be automatic and mandatory for Home edition — Windows 10: You'll get UPDATES LIKE IT or NOT - unless you have Enterprise Edition — ‘You agree to receive automatic updates without notice’ — Microsoft's licensing on the upcoming Windows 10 OS means that most users …
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Yahoo Files To Spin Off Its Alibaba Stake As “Aabaco Holdings” — Yahoo is moving forward with plans to spin off its Alibaba assets, as outlined in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Basically, Yahoo is tossing its Alibaba stock and a minor part of its operations into a new corporate entity.| Callie Bost / Bloomberg Business: |
Google's stock closes up 16%, adding $65B to its market capitalization, the biggest one-day gain in value ever for a US company — Google Adds a Record $60 Billion to Its Stock in One Day — Google Inc. just gave its investors the biggest present ever. — The search-engine giant added …
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Yahoo quietly launches Livetext, combining mobile messaging with silent live video, in Hong Kong's iTunes store — Yahoo Quietly Launches A New “Video Texting” Mobile Messaging App On iTunes — Yahoo has been rumored to be working on a revamped messenger app for a while now … | Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's Cortana assistant for Android leaks early, Hyperlapse video app opens to all — Back in March, we reported that Cortana, Microsoft's Google Now and Siri competitor, would be coming to Android and iOS. While it's not officially available, a beta version of the voice assistant appears …
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| Kait Gaiss / Pocket Blog: |
Pocket brings Listen, its text-to-speech feature, to iOS — Text-to-Speech for iOS is Now Available! Listen to Your Articles in Pocket — We don't always have the opportunity to sit down and read the amazing content we save to Pocket every day. Sometimes, our hands are simply full … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Reddit CEO's proposed content policy reworks old ideologies of past CEOs and lacks specifics that could help root out harassment — Nothing Ever Changes At Reddit — This afternoon, some indeterminate yet undoubtedly enormous number of real human beings gathered around their computers …
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See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Filmmaker Casey Neistat's Beme video sharing app aims for authenticity by not letting users review the ephemeral four-second videos they send — The Debut of Casey Neistat's Beme, a Social App That Aims for Authenticity — Casey Neistat isn't as handsome as in his Facebook profile picture.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Signs On As OpenStack Sponsor, Will Contribute Container Tech — Google is joining the OpenStack Foundation as the open source project's newest corporate sponsor, the two organizations announced today. Google, which has informally collaborated with OpenStack on a number of projects … Sponsor Posts
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