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July 18, 2015, 12:25 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.

More: Homejoy Blog, BuzzFeed, Ars Technica, CNET, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, bizjournals, Fusion, GeekWire, Forbes, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, tech.co, Inc.com, BuzzFeed, SiliconBeat, Wired, Fortune, The Next Web, silicontap.com and Engadget

Tweets: @nabeel, @caseynewton, @startupljackson, @kevinroose and @nikhiljoisr

Re/code:

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.

More: BuzzFeed, Engadget, The Next Web, CIO.com, Mashable, 9to5Google and bizjournals

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 …

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, NBC News, Quartz, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, Motley Fool, Star Tribune, US News and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @emilychangtv

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

YouTube's global watch time grew 60% YoY; average mobile viewing session now over 40 minutes

More: Music Ally, Fast Company, Tech Times and Quartz

Tweets: @jank0 and @mikeisaac

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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 …

More: PhoneDog.com, eWeek, The Verge and SlashGear. Tweets: @amir

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 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.

More: ZDNet, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, USA Today, Business Wire, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press

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 …

More: 9to5Mac, SlashGear, The Next Web, Lifehacker, The Digital Reader, VentureBeat and iPhone in Canada Blog

Chris Johnston / Guardian:

British man Lauri Love rearrested, charged wth hacking into US government agencies including the US army, NASA, and the Federal Reserve, faces extradition to US — British man accused of hacking into US government networks arrested — Lauri Love arrested in Suffolk on an extradition warrant …

More: Ars Technica, BBC, The Hill, SC Magazine UK, SC Magazine and The Cryptosphere

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.

More: The Daily Dot, The Next Web, Eastwood, Fast Company, Fast Company, Business Insider, Mashable, SlashGear and The Verge

Tweets: @viticci and @mikeisaac

iFixit:

iPod touch 6th-gen teardown: slightly more repairable and double the RAM of last model at 1GB — iPod Touch 6th Generation Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide

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.

More: UCLA Health, ZDNet, UCLA Health, NBC News, USA Today, The Register, CNNMoney, Associated Press, The Hill, CIO.com, SC Magazine, Reuters, NPR, Fortune and FierceHealthIT News

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