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Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Is Airbnb About To Become A $24 Billion Company? Just two months after Uber announced its quest for a $1.5 billion round of funding that would value the company at $50 billion, Airbnb appears to be on a similar track
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber Protest in Paris: French Cabbies Blockade Roads, Assault Drivers 2,800 cabbies are rallying nationwide in response to the ride-hailing app's continued operation in France.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Uber's Big Round Of Chinese Funding Could Signal IPO Uber has just secured a round of funding from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital Group, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Instacart Promotes Some Contract Workers To Part-Time Employees Instacart, the grocery delivery service for urbanites with money to spend, just did something very unusual for an on-demand startup: It reclassified many of its workers as part-time employees rather than independent contractors.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Uber Updates Privacy Policies Ridesharing giant Uber has just revised its privacy policy to track riders' locations even when the app is not being used, and to send promotional discounts to friends and family members.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Spotify's New Social Ads: Smart Engagement Or Twitter Spam Machine? Spotify is experimenting with new ways to keep your attention -- and remind artists who the big kid on the block is as competitors emerge left and right
Fast Company David Lumb	Square Goes After Branded Payments With $Cashtags Square is opening up its Square Cash quick-payment service, previously used only for exchanging money between individuals, to, well, almost anyone.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Jay Z Just Bought A Spotify Competitor Through his Project Panther business entity, the hip-hop superstar and business mogul acquired Aspiro, a Swedish music streaming company that specializes in high-fidelity digital audio.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Lyft Just Raised $530 Million To Challenge Uber For Ride-Sharing Supremacy Lyft is creeping into new markets, reaching profitability in many of them -- and, most importantly, raking in a ton of cash.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Verizon Is Trying Streaming Video -- Again Five months after abandoning Redbox Instant, the telco is gearing up to offer an as-yet-unnamed streaming service. And while the details are scarce, it looks like the blanks will be filled in soon.
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