Top Stories of the Day // October 8, 2016

Saturday, October 8, 2016 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Peter Csathy

Whether it’s Disney, Amazon, or Apple, someone’s definitely going to buy Netflix

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…
Josh Constine

Facebook launches standalone “Events” discovery and calendar app

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…
John Biggs

Poland builds a solar-powered bike path that glows a ghostly blue

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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Google shuts down Panoramio

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…
Sarah Perez

Bumble bans mirror selfies and other dumb photos from users’ profiles

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…
Jon Evans

E2E or GTFO

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…
David Schweikert

Government’s refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is hurting the economy

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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