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May 7, 2015
How To Turn Your Instagram Addiction Into Ca$h
Twenty20 is the newest platform to help you sell the best photos on your phone to brands and publishers.
Russian media exec Lena Otvodenko bought her first digital camera just a few years ago, just to document friends and events.
Fitbit Files For $100M IPO
The wearable-technology company is looking to raise $100 million.
Hold on, Apple Watch: Fitbit, the company behind the popular Flex activity trackers, just filed to go public. The company is looking to raise $100 million.
Today In Tabs: How To Succeed In Business By Stealing From The Weak
Running from the Taburglar.
Uber stays cheap by helping Uber riders relentlessly screw Uber drivers. That's what Emily Guendelsberger learned when she tried to find out how much money you could actually earn as an UberX driver in Philly. Turns out you can easily make the much-touted $90k by driving 27 hours a day, 365 days a year, so good luck! Manicures in NYC stay cheap by relentlessly screwing desperately poor, often undocumented manicurists. That's what Sarah Maslin Nir found in her impeccably reported NYT story on the booming manicure business, which is shocking even if you already sort of knew $10 was not a remotely plausible price for a manicure in New York. (Nir also did a good commentary track with VICE, if you're a journalism nerd.) These are pure examples of what capitalism literally is: the extraction of maximum labor for minimum price from the weakest party in a transaction. If you object to the business practices in these stories, congratulations! You are anti-capitalist. Please spend and vote accordingly.
With Yelp Reportedly Considering Sale, Stock Pops 25%
Following a report that Yelp is exploring a possible sale, the company's stock jumped 25%.
Yelp is looking into a sale, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Gates Foundation To Invest $75 Million In Disease Surveillance Network In Africa And South Asia
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is spending $75 million to open six sites that will track diseases and fight child mortality.
As philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates proposed a few weeks ago at a Vancouver TED conference, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is spending up to $75 million initially to help open a network of disease surveillance sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to fight child mortality. By tracking how and why children get sick, health workers hope to identify the right kind of aid interventions, in the right places, to save lives and prevent epidemics—or repurpose the sites to fight epidemics like the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
L.A.'s Mayor Garcetti: "We're Hiring A Ride-Share And Autonomous Car Advisor"
An open search is underway for an autonomous vehicle czar in the City of Angels.
Los Angeles, the city that is synonymous with car culture, is getting a citywide advisor on autonomous vehicles, rideshares, and bicycles.
The Filter Bubble Is Your Own Damn Fault, Says Facebook
If you're not seeing content on Facebook that challenges your personal views, it's because of your own choices, not an algorithm. But that could change.
Whether you're shopping on Amazon, searching Google, or browsing Facebook, algorithms personalize the experience and point you to content that a machine thinks you want to see. In the sphere of civic discourse, experts have feared that this "filter bubble"—exposure only to news and opinions that users already agree with—will erode political dialogue and create a more polarized society.
May 5, 2015
Today in Tabs: Everything Is So Much Worse Than You Think
Is this Tabs or hipster poetry? Only you can decide.
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Polish Bank Introduces Mobile ATMs You Can Summon With An App
The Idea Bank has deployed a fleet of cars with ATMs for entrepreneurs to make mobile deposits, though only in Warsaw for now.
Have you ever needed to deposit a fat stack of cash, but didn't want to travel to a bank? Poland's Idea Bank has bolted ATMs into a fleet of cars that can be ordered via a smartphone app for no-fee deposits, wherever you are, even late at night. As long as you're in Warsaw, Poland.
Nutrition App MyFitnessPal Launches Its First Premium Version
MyFitnessPal, which is owned by Under Armour, wants to harness its 85 million users with a premium paid version of its popular app.
MyFitnessPal, a free fitness app that tracks calories eaten rather than exercise, was bought by Under Armour for $475 million back in February. Now MyFitnessPal is releasing its first paid premium version with extra features, for $10 per month or $50 per year, according to a MyFitnessPal blog post. MyFitnessPal, one of Fast Company's 2015 Most Innovative Companies in fitness, has 85 million users of its free app, and now it is looking to monetize those fans.
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