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Tinder IPO runs into Tinder® Crowd-Funded Lawsuit

With the Tinder double-opt-in Internet dating app valued at up to $5 billion in advance of its initial public offering on the stock market (IPO), little WildFireWeb, which owns the “Tinder®” federal registration mark, has launched a crowd-funded effort to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a lawsuit that could potentially be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Free Speech Fight over Antisemitism on California Campuses

Following a sharp rise in antisemitism across the University of California’s 10 campuses, a group of professors, students, activists and Jewish groups wrangled with a group of UC leaders at a public forum at UCLA on Monday as they sought to make revisions to a proposed policy denouncing intolerance on school grounds.

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‘Coding Bootcamps’ Give English Majors a Shot in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley’s “coding bootcamps” are a cottage industry of fast-track private vocational schools for graduates looking to enter the competitive tech industry as software engineers, data scientists, and other in-demand jobs. Many coding bootcamp graduates who hold college degrees in areas notorious for slim earning potential (like English majors) and are now fully employed in the tech industry making a lot more money.

Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz (AFP / Saudi Press Agency)

Report: Saudi Prince Ordered ‘Naked Pussy,’ Farts

Damning legal court documents stemming from civil lawsuits after last month’s arrest of Saudi Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 29, indicate the son of the late King Abdullah had demanded to see ‘naked pussy’ from his staff, ordered a male aide to fart in his face, and then reportedly proceeded to engage in a gay sexual act with him.

Airbnb Pride (Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr / CC)

Airbnb Fighting Existential Battle in SF over Prop F

The $8 million political war chest raised by Airbnb and others to defeat San Francisco’s Proposition F, which would be an existential threat to private short-term “vacation rentals,” appears to be succeeding, with a double-digit lead in the polls.

Metta World Peace and Kobe Bryant AP

Metta World Peace Makes Lakers Roster

The Los Angeles Lakers roster will include 35-year-old veteran forward Metta World Peace, known most of his life as Ron Artest and for a short time as “The Panda’s Friend.”

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Public Housing a Trendy Deal in San Diego

Select San Diegans will receive federal government housing subsidies along with 42-inch HDTVs, cable, Internet and on-site services upon taking up residence at the newly constructed $50 million dollar Alpha Square low-income housing project in the city’s trendy East Village neighborhood.