3.5 million visitors

That’s how many visitors Google News in Spain receives per month. Google announced it would be shutting down Google News in Spain in response to a new law that would charge the news service every time content from Spanish newspapers and publishers appeared.

252

The total mentions of waterboarding, and other interrogation methods involving water or temperature in the Senate’s long-anticipated CIA torture report. The Washington Post published a graphic letting users explore all instances of “enhanced interrogation” described in the report. Or, if you’d prefer, here’s a visualization of the report’s redactions.

$4.5 billion

That’s how much Lending Club, the leading online-lending-marketplace, could be valued at after its IPO on Thursday. It will be the first among several fast-growing financial start-ups expected to go public in the peer-to-peer lending industry.

300 million users

Instagram passed that benchmark Wednesday, edging out Twitter and getting that much closer to Mark Zuckerberg’s billion-user gold standard. Comparing social networks isn’t a perfect science, but Re/Code has a look at how active users compare across services. 

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42.9 million

That’s how many Americans have unpaid medical bills according to the findings of a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That’s nearly 20 percent of consumers.

$634 million

Universal’s cash flow for the first nine months of 2014, putting the studio on track for its most profitable year ever. What’s notable is that Universal did it without a big summer tent pole, Forbes reported. The studio’s film slate, which is nearly complete, was full of projects with modest budgets. There weren’t any earth-shattering successes or flops, but lots of return on investment.