Here s what s on the Friday menu.
Another Yahoo investor pushes the company to sell itself. Canyon Capital Advisors sent the company a letter Thursday, telling it not to waste more capital.
Speaking of Yahoo, some fans are up in arms over missing comics on Yahoo News. A spokeswoman told SiliconBeat today that the company has ended a relationship with a comics syndicate. [Comics were] not a destination that we closed, she said. It has nothing to do with cost cuts.
Facebook outsources fighting hate in Germany: Bertelsmann business unit has hired about 100 people to work with Facebook staff to monitor and delete racist posts.
Bitcoin is dead, a victim of growth and infighting, says a bitcoin expert — a programmer who quit Google a couple years ago to concentrate on bitcoin. (NYT)
SpaceX news: It will attempt rocket landing on a drone ship Sunday. NASA awards it a contract for cargo space flights.
ICYMI: Foursquare replaces CEO Dennis Crowley, gets new $45 million funding. Its valuation of about $332 million is half of what it used to be.
Netflix is cracking down on proxy users who bypass country restrictions.
Trains, planes… and: Amazon is reportedly expanding its shipping infrastructure to the sea.
Photo: Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group)
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