Whether it’s Disney, Amazon, or Apple, someone’s definitely going to buy Netflix | Facebook launches standalone “Events” discovery and calendar app | Poland builds a solar-powered bike path that glows a ghostly blue | Google shuts down Panoramio | Bumble bans mirror selfies and other dumb photos from users’ profiles | E2E or GTFO | Government’s refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is hurting the economy |
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| TOP HEADLINE | Peter Csathy | New rumors swirl in our Media 2.0 world about one massive potential tantalizing and game-changing deal – Disney buying behemoth SVOD service Netflix. That... Read More… |
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| Josh Constine | 650 million people use Facebook Events — 100 million every day — but it’s a smaller sect of hardcore extroverts who discover these parties and... Read More… |
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| John Biggs | Poland can do some cool stuff. To wit: this cool bike path in a town called Pruszków. The path is made of a light-emitting material that charges in the sun and... Read More… |
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| Frederic Lardinois | Panoramio, the location-centric photo sharing service Google acquired in 2007, will show its last image on November 4. For the longest time, Google used... Read More… |
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| Sarah Perez | There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere... Read More… |
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| Jon Evans | Oh, Yahoo. We're not just mad at you. We're also really, really disappointed. First it took you two years to figure out that you were hacked by a nation-state.... Read More… |
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| David Schweikert | The workforce of the 21st century has been changing for years. Government, only recently perceiving the movement from a traditional workforce to an... Read More… |
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