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A New Class Of Worker Could Fix The On-Demand Economy
The rise of the on-demand economy has presented difficult questions for both employers and employees. It’s not uncommon to see stories about the series of legal and regulatory challenges Uber is facing. Through all of these legal and moral difficulties, the debate remains the same: Should contractors be considered employees or is the solution to create a third classification of worker? Read More Microsoft Will Release Cortana For Android In “Next Few Weeks”
Following an apparent leak of Cortana for the Android platform, Microsoft released comment indicating that it is in fact testing its digital assistant for the Google platform, and will cut it live in short order. The full quote is as follows: In the spirit of the Windows Insider Program, we’re testing the Cortana for Android beta with a limited number of users in the U.S. and China… Read MoreTwitter’s Mastering The Emoji, But Are They Missing Out On A Gravy Train? 🍗💵💰🍗
Today’s one of those completely useless internet fake holiday days. It’s World Emoji Day! 😆 Anyways, emojis can be serious business, or in the case of Twitter…should be serious business. 💵 My colleague Jon Russell pointed out that Twitter might be missing the boat on charging for cool emoji packs like messaging service Line and others do. 🚧 Twitter is missing a… Read MoreCrunchWeek: Tech Makes Money, Reddit’s Implosion Continues, And Your Favorite Startup Is Doomed
Hello my friend, and welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. This time ’round Drew Olanoff, Sarah Lane, and your humble servant discussed three of the week’s largest stories: The massive spike in technology earnings, Reddit’s never-ending issues regarding content and Internet trolling, and, of course, the current carnage among some of Uber For X startups. All that and… Read MoreYahoo 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, and it looks like that new app may be taking its first step into the wild. Yahoo has quietly released the next version of its Yahoo Messenger mobile application, which is available under the name “Yahoo Livetext – Video Messenger” in the Hong Kong iTunes App Store. The app went live earlier… Read MoreYahoo 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. The spinoff will be a public company called Aabaco Holdings, and it will own 384 million shares of Alibaba, which is about 15 percent of the total. Read More
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