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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.
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| 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.| 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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| 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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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
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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 … | 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 …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Hacking Team's evil Android app had code to bypass Google Play screening — Full backdoor code wasn't installed until after user activated app. — Security researchers at Trend Micro's Trend Labs have uncovered a trick in a sample of a fake news application for Android created …
| 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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