Top Stories of the Day // October 8, 2016

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 |

THE DAILY CRUNCH 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… SPONSORED CONTENT Azmat Yusuf @ Disrupt LND We're excited to announce that Azmat Yusuf, the founder of the incredibly useful Citymapper urban transit app, will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt in London on December 5-6. Learn More Frederic Lardinois 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… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: IS Network Engineer at American Arbitration Association (New City, NY, United States) Technical Research Coordinator at UCLA Health (Los Angeles, CA, United States) Technical Product Manager at The Sourcery (San Francisco, CA, United States) Lead iOS Developer at Beatshare (Orange, CA, United States) Full Stack PHP Software Development Lead at Holy Name Medical Center (Teaneck, NJ, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service