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 optio...
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.
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
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 …
HTC cancels previously unveiled Grip fitness band that was slated for a Spring 2015 launch
HTC won't ship the Grip after all, but its fitness ambition lives on — Hey, remember that time HTC built a fitness tracker (with a little help from Under Armor) and showed it off in Barcelona?
Symantec: Spam falls below 50% of all email for the first time since 2003
Good news for all of us who still have to use email: spam rates are dropping! In fact, junk messages now account for just 49.7 percent of all emails. — The latest figure comes from security firm Sy...
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 professi...
Google's stock closes up 16%, adding $65B to its market capitalization, the biggest one-day gain in value ever for a US company
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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 …
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, o...
UCLA Health System reports patient data breach; 4.5 million may be affected
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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 creat...
YouTube's global watch time grew 60% YoY; average mobile viewing session now over 40 minutes
Google Grows YouTube Views, Revenue Despite Facebook Threat — YouTube got a big shout-out during Google's Q2 2015 earnings call Thursday, with Google's new CFO Ruth Porat stating that the company ha...
UK High Court quashes laws letting people lawfully copy CDs, DVDs or MP3s for personal use
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Filmmaker Casey Neistat's Beme video sharing app aims for authenticity by not letting users review the ephemeral four-second videos they send
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Apptio, maker of cloud-based software to manage IT, taps banks for an IPO that could value the company at about $1B
Apptio Taps Banks for IPO — Cloud IT Software Maker Working With Goldman, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America on IPO — Apptio Inc., a maker of cloud-based software …
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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Microsoft's Cortana assistant for Android leaks early, Hyperlapse video app opens to all
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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 …
Yahoo Files To Spin Off Its Alibaba Stake As “Aabaco Holdings”
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Sources: Dish talks to acquire T-Mobile stall, complicated by looming spectrum auction
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Massachusetts attorney general questioning Uber and Lyft over access for people with disabilities
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