Facebook Pays to Track People, Cryptocurrency Scams Cost Users $1.7 Billion and Elon Musk's Jet Travel (60-Second Video)Here are three things entrepreneurs should know today.

ByHayden Field

  • Facebook has been paying people, including teens, up to $20 a month to install an app that tracks almost all of their phone and web activity. After theoriginal articleappeared inTechCrunch, Facebook said it would shut down the iOS version, partly because of Apple's app store rules. But the app will reportedly still be available on Android.

  • 的cryptocurrency world is rife with scams, according to arecent reportfrom security firm CipherTrace, which said thefts and exit scams cost cryptocurrency users and investors about $1.7 billion in U.S. dollars last year.

  • In his self-described "excruciating" 2018, Elon Musk's corporate jet flew more than 150,000 miles, or more than six times around the Earth.The Washington Postcreated agraphicto illustrate the flight paths.

Watch the previous 3 Things video:Apple Acknowledges FaceTime Bug, PG&E Files for Bankruptcy and NFL History Will be Made at the Super Bowl

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Hayden Field is an associate editor at Entrepreneur. She covers technology, business and science. Her work has also appeared in Fortune Magazine, Mashable, Refinery29 and others.

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