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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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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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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 … | 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 …
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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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US district court judge rules streaming company could receive license to retransmit broadcasters' copyrighted content; 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 … | Callie Bost / Bloomberg Business: |
Google shares spike 15% a day after beating estimates in its Q2 results, adding $60B to market cap in one day; stock up about 25% over the last five days — Google Adds a Record $60 Billion to Its Stock in One Day — Google Inc. just gave its investors the biggest present ever.
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To protest mayor's proposed legislation, Uber adds “de Blasio” tab to its app in New York City which shows a long wait time — Uber just added a ‘De Blasio’ tab to its app in New York to fight the mayor's proposed legislation — In the tech world, nobody plays hardball like Uber.
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Sources: Amazon to launch its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service in UK this year — Amazon Preps Fresh Grocery Delivery Launch in U.K. — Amazon's grocery delivery service is still only available in a few markets in the U.S., but the e-commerce company is already planning to launch the service outside of the country.| 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 … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Pro audio firm Marshall announces London, a sound-focused Android smartphone with low-end specs for around $590; will be released in Scandinavia, UK in August — Marshall announces very pretty, very slow, very expensive smartphone — The famous guitar amp company lends its brand name to a unique device.
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Cyber security startup Rapid7 raises $103M in IPO, with shares popping over 65%, market cap surpassing $1B, trading on Nasdaq as RPD — Cyber security start-up Rapid7 shares pop on first day of trading — Shares in Rapid7, the first cyber security company to list in the US this year …
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