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Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/stubhub-ipo-back-on-for-september-a…

StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns
StubHub updated its IPO prospectus on Monday, effectively restarting the process to go public.

China has suspended almost all exports since April 4 of seven kinds of #rare #earth metals,
as well as very powerful magnets made from three of them.
The halt has caused increasingly severe shortages that threaten to close many factories in the United States and Europe.

What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.

Oh, man. Jim Lovell has passed away.
I got to meet him briefly at a 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 event at the Air and Space Museum in 2010.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

UK retailer M&S resumes click and collect services after a cyberattack on April 22, set to cost it ~£300M; M&S restarted online delivery orders on June 10 (James Davey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

In April, Chief Judge James Boasberg held there
is probable cause that administration officials
engaged in criminal contempt
by having “willfully disobeyed a binding judicial decree.”
Emil Bove is identified in the whistleblower’s documents as having played a central role in the conduct of concern.
The documents also provide evidence that Bove has seriously misled Congress about his conduct.

Whistleblower Documents Implicate Emil Bove in Criminal Contempt Order by Chief Judge Boasberg
Email released by whistleblower would presumably implicate Bove in the “contumacious conduct” identified by Chief Judge Boasberg.

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men age 17 to 19, in relation to the M&S and Co-op hacks, which started in April and caused havoc (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo

Four arrested in connection with M&S and Co-op cyber attacks
Three men and one woman - aged between 17 and 20 - have been arrested in London and the midlands.

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps