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Pornhub dodges India’s porn site ban with new domain name

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by on October 29, 2018 at 11:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India


Last week, the Indian government directed telcos to block 827 porn sites, including Pornhub – one of the biggest adult content sites. In response, Pornhub has launched a new website specifically for its Indian users, pornhub.net. According to PornHub’s yearly review of 2017, India is the third largest consumer of its content. The company’s VP, Corey Price said that watching porn privately is not illegal in the country and it is ready to work with the government to find a middle ground: There are no laws against pornography in India and watching adult content privately. It’s evident that the Indian government…

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Pornhub dodges India’s porn site ban with new domain name

Oct29
by on October 29, 2018 at 11:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India


Last week, the Indian government directed telcos to block 827 porn sites, including Pornhub – one of the biggest adult content sites. In response, Pornhub has launched a new website specifically for its Indian users, pornhub.net. According to PornHub’s yearly review of 2017, India is the third largest consumer of its content. The company’s VP, Corey Price said that watching porn privately is not illegal in the country and it is ready to work with the government to find a middle ground: There are no laws against pornography in India and watching adult content privately. It’s evident that the Indian government…

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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp acquired by Belgium investment firm

Oct29
by on October 29, 2018 at 11:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange desk Bitstamp has been acquired by NXMH, a Brussels-based investment firm owned by the South Korean conglomerate Nexon Holdings (NXC), the company announced today. The terms of the deal, which was signed on October 25, have not been revealed. NXHM now holds eighty percent stake in Bitstamp, while the exchange desk’s founder Nejc Kodric retains ten percent of the ownership and will continue to serve as the company’s CEO. NXHM was one of the four firms to show interest in acquiring Bitstamp in 2017. According to Fortune, the deal was purportedly finalized in December last year, but couldn’t be…

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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp acquired by Belgium investment firm

Oct29
by on October 29, 2018 at 11:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange desk Bitstamp has been acquired by NXMH, a Brussels-based investment firm owned by the South Korean conglomerate Nexon Holdings (NXC), the company announced today. The terms of the deal, which was signed on October 25, have not been revealed. NXHM now holds eighty percent stake in Bitstamp, while the exchange desk’s founder Nejc Kodric retains ten percent of the ownership and will continue to serve as the company’s CEO. NXHM was one of the four firms to show interest in acquiring Bitstamp in 2017. According to Fortune, the deal was purportedly finalized in December last year, but couldn’t be…

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This tiny box snitches on rowdy Airbnb guests

Oct29
by on October 29, 2018 at 11:12 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


More and more people are purchasing homes to let out as vacation rentals. While the rewards can be great, so too can the risks, as hundreds of Airbnb landlords have discovered. There are plenty of examples of guests using properties as the location for drug and sex-fueled ragers, leaving thousands of dollars of damage in their wake. Predictably, an entire market of tech products has sprung up around helping landlords protect their properties. One company in this space is NoiseAware, which today announced the latest generation of its noise monitoring hardware: the NoiseAware Gen 3. So, what does it do?…

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