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Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code:
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.
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Tim Anderson / The Register:
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 …
TechCrunch:
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 …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
District court says streaming firm FilmOn may have same rights as cable firms to rebroadcast network TV; case appealed  —  U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable  —  A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that online television service FilmOn X LLC should be treated …
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.
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 …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
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Minho Kim / New York Times:
Sarah B. Rogers, Trump's nominee to lead USAGM, says she would reinstate some agency employees; if confirmed, she would still serve in the State Department

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Swiss film producer Simon Afram sues Netflix for $105M, saying Netflix lost an unencrypted copy of a film starring Nicolas Cage that he spent $45M to produce

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
NBCU's deal with YouTube Premium signals a new phase in the streaming wars where platforms weigh deals with other companies to add content to their platforms

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