Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2016

Katy Perry's Twitter account, the platform's most followed, got hacked | Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high | French financial prosecutor went dark for a year to investigate Google France | How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego | Vista Equity Partners buys marketing automation giant Marketo for $1.8B in cash | PayPal to halt operations in Turkey after losing license, impacts ‘hundreds of thousands’ | Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agree to remove hate speech across the EU |
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TUESDAY, MAY 31 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Catherine Shu

Katy Perry's Twitter account, the platform's most followed, got hacked

Many of Katy Perry's 89 million Twitter followers—the most on the platform—were probably intrigued and confused when the pop star tweeted supposed... Read More…
Romain Dillet

Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high

Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are positive signs indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as everybody thought. Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on... Read More…
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Romain Dillet

French financial prosecutor went dark for a year to investigate Google France

Google was caught by surprise. Last week, nearly 100 of France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des Finances) raided Google's office in Paris... Read More…
CRUNCH NETWORK | Andrew Gazdecki

How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego

Companies have long come to the Bay Area to plant their seeds, and for good reason. The stretch of land from San Jose to San Francisco encompasses some of the... Read More…
Ingrid Lunden

Vista Equity Partners buys marketing automation giant Marketo for $1.8B in cash

Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79... Read More…
Ingrid Lunden

PayPal to halt operations in Turkey after losing license, impacts ‘hundreds of thousands’

Turkey has been making moves to bring tech business in the country under more localised control, and today big U.S. online payments company PayPal became the... Read More…
Romain Dillet

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agree to remove hate speech across the EU

Facebook, Twitter, Google's YouTube, Microsoft as well as the European Commission unveiled a new code of conduct to remove hate speech according to community... Read More…
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