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By The Numbers

The numbers for July 2, 2013: Thousands, millions, billions

Katie Long Jul 2, 2013
Thousands

In honor of the Fourth of July holiday, car-for-hire app Uber will be offering helicopter rides for $3,000 to Hampton’s visitors. (CNET)

Millions

Candy Crush Saga, a mobile gaming app, now has 150 million monthly users. To put that in perspective, only about 125 million people voted in the last presidential election. (Bloomberg)

Billions

Think student loans are a scourge of the young? Think again. According to data from the New York Federal Reserve, Americans aged 60 years and older now owe $43 billion in student loan debt. (Reuters)

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