Top Stories of the Day // April 4, 2016

Monday, April 4, 2016 Posted by bloggerdaddy
Documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm reveal a global web of corruption | UPDATE: Reddit’s firing up a thread on the Panama Papers leak | Platforms are the real powerhouses in Silicon Valley’s business landscape | Airbnb vows to take a “new approach” to culling illegal listings in San Francisco | Amazon takes on PayPal and others with launch of Amazon Payments partner program | Virtual reality is about to go mainstream, but a lack of content threatens to hold it back | As Valk Fleet is put into administration, drivers claim to be unpaid and staff receive ‘death threats’ |
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MONDAY, APRIL 4 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Jonathan Shieber

Documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm reveal a global web of corruption

All day, the Internet has been abuzz with stories culled from the "Panama Papers" -- roughly 2.6 terabytes of documents, related to hundreds of thousands of... Read More…
Jonathan Shieber

UPDATE: Reddit’s firing up a thread on the Panama Papers leak

UPDATE: An earlier version of this story linked to an earlier expose’ conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on offshore... Read More…
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YouTube star and Beme founder Casey Neistat to coming to Disrupt NY 2016

Popular YouTuber Casey Neistat has a knack for viral hits. On top of all that, Neistat is the co-founder of Beme, an app that lets people produce four seconds of unedited video to send to friends (and friends to conversely send their unedited reactions). See him and many more on stage at Disrupt NY! Learn More…
CRUNCH NETWORK | Vivek Wadhwa

Platforms are the real powerhouses in Silicon Valley’s business landscape

One of the most important lessons that Silicon Valley learned, that gives it a strategic advantage, is to think bigger than products and business models: it... Read More…
Catherine Shu

Airbnb vows to take a “new approach” to culling illegal listings in San Francisco

Airbnb, which is constantly accused of worsening San Francisco's housing crunch, has released a report specifying how many of its listings might violate city... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Amazon takes on PayPal and others with launch of Amazon Payments partner program

Amazon announced this morning a plan to spread adoption of its payments service, Amazon Payments, to more third-party websites. With the launch of its Amazon... Read More…
CRUNCH NETWORK | Tony Scherba

Virtual reality is about to go mainstream, but a lack of content threatens to hold it back

Technology is surrounding us; its surface is becoming more complex, pliable and familiar to the eye. Virtual reality is no longer creeping into the mainstream:... Read More…
Steve O'Hear

As Valk Fleet is put into administration, drivers claim to be unpaid and staff receive ‘death threats’

A number of Valk Fleet's management team tell TechCrunch they have been on the receiving end of "death threats" from disgruntled drivers who, due to their... Read More…
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