Top Stories of the Day // January 14, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Jan 14, 2014 Matthew Panzarino Google Is Buying Connected Device Company Nest For $3.2B In Cash Google is acquiring connected device company Nest for $3.2B. Google sent out an email to employees noting the acquisition today and later issued a press... read more Spencer Chen Booth Babes Don’t Work It's a pretty indefensible practice. The hiring of young, college-aged females to dress as provocatively as possible to help promote...um, Ultra HD TV sets,... read more Josh Constine Who Gets Rich From Google Buying Nest? Kleiner Returns 20X On $20M, Shasta Nets ~$200M Google just bought Nest for $3.2 billion cash, and that means the startup's early investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Shasta Ventures have struck it... read more Alex Wilhelm Charter Offers $61.3 Billion In Cash And Stock To Acquire Time Warner Cable read more Matt Burns Sony Adds To Its Global Mobile Lineup With The Xperia T2 Ultra And Xperia E1 Android Phones Sony is adding two smartphones to its growing stable of devices. Meet the Xperia T2 Ultra and the Xperia E1 -- both substantial updates to Sony's 2013 models.... read more Leena Rao Rizvi, SV Angel And Groupe Artemis Are Buying Square Shares, Secondary Offering Values Company At $5B In December, The Information reported that payments company Square was considering funding a secondary tender offer for employee shares at a $5 billion... read more Ingrid Lunden Nest Gives Google A Head Start On The Future Of Hardware CES may be finished for another year, but one of the biggest themes of the show -- that anything (cars, watches, mirrors, tables and more) is fair game as... read more TOP VIDEOS CrunchWeek: CES, CES, And CES Talk about a long week. Along with a Polar Vortex infiltration, which left much of the northeast straight up... read more SolarCooler Keeps Your Brews Icy With The Power Of The Sun, But It'll Cost You $1K Every year at CES, the Eureka Park outpost where they stick the scrappy startups is the best damn part of the whole... read more Toshiba's 5-in-1 Computing Device Concept Looks Like What Windows 8 Is Meant For One of the best parts of CES are the devices that companies show off that are more or less conceptual, and may... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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