Top Stories of the Day // April 2, 2017

April Fools’ 2017: Here’s the best and worst of this year’s pranks (so far) | Snapchat wins April Fools’ with its jab at Instagram | Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the world’s most expensive cities? | Discussing the limits of artificial intelligence | Zozi’s ousted CEO sues board following last week’s layoffs | Let’s meet in Pittsburgh on April 11 |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SUNDAY, APRIL 2 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak April Fools’ 2017: Here’s the best and worst of this year’s pranks (so far) April Fools’ Day falls on a Saturday this year. Seemingly worried that the internet goes away on weekends, a bunch of companies rolled out their April... Read More… Greg Kumparak Snapchat wins April Fools’ with its jab at Instagram We’ve got a whole roundup of 2017’s tech April Fools’ pranks, but this one from Snapchat deserves a little highlight all its own. Back in... Read More… Jon Evans Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the world’s most expensive cities? Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions — SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris — attract all the best jobs while... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Final Weeks To Save Big | TechCrunch Disrupt NY Make sure to take advantage of Early Bird Tickets for TechCrunch's Disrupt NY conference. Book your tickets today and you'll get full access to the conference and save over $1000. Now that's Disruptive! Learn More Alice Lloyd George Discussing the limits of artificial intelligence It’s hard to visit a tech site these days without seeing a headline about deep learning for X, and that AI is on the verge of solving all our problems.... Read More… Sarah Perez Zozi’s ousted CEO sues board following last week’s layoffs Tour and activities marketplace Zozi fired its CEO earlier this year, but employees were only just informed of this fact last week, when the ousted CEO - who... Read More… John Biggs Let’s meet in Pittsburgh on April 11 In preparation for Disrupt New York and our upcoming TC Sessions series on Robotics Matt Burns and I will be heading to Pittsburgh to talk to some startups. We... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Entry-Level Business Development Representative [$50K - $70K OTE] at LaunchSource (Boston, MA, United States) Senior Software Engineer @ GreatHorn at GreatHorn (Belmont, MA, United States) Two Sigma Ventures Content + Brand Manager at Two Sigma Investments (New York, NY, United States) Senior Android Developer at Breakthrough Innovation Ltd. (Hong Kong) Local Market Sales Representative at Yumi (San Francisco, CA, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service

                                                           

Top Stories of the Day // April 1, 2017

April Fools’ 2017: Here’s the best and worst of this year’s pranks (so far) | Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST | Amazon quietly launches its own social media influencer program into beta | How Stories Search makes Snapchat a real-time YouTube | Cloudera posts long-awaited IPO filing | Here are the frontier startups that presented at Singularity University’s third demo day | SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch could attempt upper-stage recovery |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, APRIL 1 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak April Fools’ 2017: Here’s the best and worst of this year’s pranks (so far) April Fools’ Day falls on a Saturday this year. Seemingly worried that the internet goes away on weekends, a bunch of companies rolled out their April... Read More… Josh Constine, Ryan Lawler Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood has added to its coffers, raising another big round of funding. According to sources, the round was led by Yuri Milner... Read More… Sarah Perez Amazon quietly launches its own social media influencer program into beta Social media influencers – like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs – often promote products they like, either as part of a brand relationship or as... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch TechCrunch NYC Trivia Throwdown | April 6 TechCrunch's Jordan Crook hosts a startup-themed trivia night for the tech community filled with fun questions, prizes, and even a few surprises. Trivia Throwdown will take place on April 6 in NYC! Learn More Josh Constine How Stories Search makes Snapchat a real-time YouTube Snapchat is shifting from a social network limited to content shared by people you follow to an ephemeral, real-time database of what's going on now everywhere.... Read More… Kate Conger, Katie Roof Cloudera posts long-awaited IPO filing Cloudera, the enterprise big data company that's received significant backing from Intel, has unveiled its much-anticipated IPO filing. Read More… John Mannes Here are the frontier startups that presented at Singularity University’s third demo day The nine startups participating in Singularity University’s accelerator program presented this afternoon at Moffett Federal Airfield just outside... Read More… Darrell Etherington SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch could attempt upper-stage recovery Elon Musk suggested Friday that when SpaceX does its first demo flight of the Falcon Heavy large payload rocket later this year, it might also include an... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Two Sigma Ventures Content + Brand Manager at Two Sigma Investments (New York, NY, United States) Senior Android Developer at Breakthrough Innovation Ltd. (Hong Kong) Local Market Sales Representative at Yumi (San Francisco, CA, United States) Two Sigma Ventures Investment Associate at Two Sigma Investments (New York, NY, United States) Public Relations Director at LaunchSquad (Boston, MA, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service