Top Stories of the Day // February 27, 2016

Highlights From Mobile World Congress 2016 | Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API | Is 3D Printing The Next Industrial Revolution? | LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education | Color Switch Falls To The No. 2 Games Slot (But Is Still As Addictive As Ever) | This BB-8 Is Made Entirely Of LEGO Parts And Actually Rolls Like BB-8 Should | Luxe Could Be Getting $50M From Hertz At $110M Pre-Money Valuation |

DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Anna Escher Highlights From Mobile World Congress 2016 This week, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2016. We covered a panel about mobile ad blocking, Mark Zuckerberg talked about Free Basics and... Read More… Josh Constine Venmo Halts New Developer Access To Its API This is not how you run a platform. Developers remember. Pull the rug out from under them once, and they’ll be reluctant to stand with you in the future.... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming To New York On Tuesday Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on March 1, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Get your tickets now! Learn More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Filemon Schoffer Is 3D Printing The Next Industrial Revolution? It was in 1909 when Henry Ford, master of efficiency and standardization, famously said that a "customer can have a car painted any color...so long as it is... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Venmo Abruply Kills Developer API Access Frederic Jacobs of Signal is joining Apple this summer, Hertz may lead new funding round for Luxe, new VR game Dragon Front is a VR card game coming to the Oculus Rift in Q2 2016. Watch Now CRUNCH NETWORK | Ryan Craig LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education A new book declaring the end of the golden age of economic growth has set the wonky world of economics aflame. Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American... Read More… Felicia Williams Color Switch Falls To The No. 2 Games Slot (But Is Still As Addictive As Ever) Did you hear about that crazy-popular game that sat in the No. 1 Games spot on iTunes for more than a month and a half? I’ll give you a hint, it has... Read More… Greg Kumparak This BB-8 Is Made Entirely Of LEGO Parts And Actually Rolls Like BB-8 Should Ready for your semi-regular reminder that some people are just way, way too clever? These folks managed to make a BB-8 model.... completely out of LEGO... Read More… Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley Luxe Could Be Getting $50M From Hertz At $110M Pre-Money Valuation Luxe is in talks with a strategic investor that will infuse the company with “tens of millions” in new financing from Hertz, our sources tell us.... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Frontend Engineer, Blueshift Posted: February 26 Systems/Network Analyst 2 , University of New Mexico Posted: February 26 Technical Support Representative, Sterling Payment Technologies Posted: February 25 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service