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July 18, 2015, 4:35 AM
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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 …
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 …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Startups grapple with prospective employees increasingly seeking information such as cap tables and liquidation preferences  —  Employees Wise Up  —  This week, a Bay Area founder was taken aback when an engineer being recruited by his startup asked for both its cap table and information regarding …
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 …
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
UCLA Health System reports patient data breach; 4.5 million may be affected  —  The UCLA Health System said Friday that it has been the victim of a criminal cyberattack affecting as many as 4.5 million patients.  —  The attackers accessed a computer network that contains personal and medical information.
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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Jasper Ward / Reuters:
Filing: a US judge dismisses with prejudice Trump's defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal regarding a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein signed by Trump

Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Amy Chozick, who wrote a profile of Elizabeth Holmes, talks about ghosting Nathan Fielder after tentatively agreeing to be filmed for You Can See Everything

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Reddit CEO's proposed content policy reworks old ideologies of past CEOs and lacks specifics that could help root out harassment
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Google Signs On As OpenStack Sponsor, Will Contribute Container Tech
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
District court says streaming firm FilmOn may have same rights as cable firms to rebroadcast network TV; case appealed
Tim Anderson / The Register:
Windows 10 updates will be automatic and mandatory for Home edition
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