Top Stories of the Day // February 4, 2016

Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 With “Friends Day” Videos | Apple Ordered To Pay $625M To Patent Troll In FaceTime Lawsuit | Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion | The Race To Mine Asteroids Gains International Support | iPhone 7 Could Have A Flush Rear Camera | Let’s Be Honest About The Problems With Blockchain And Finance | Google Boots Ad Blockers From Google Play |

DAILY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 With “Friends Day” Videos Now Facebook has its own holiday it calls “Friends Day”. On February 4th, the social network turns 12 years old. But in typical self-less Zuckerberg... Read More… Jon Russell Apple Ordered To Pay $625M To Patent Troll In FaceTime Lawsuit Apple has been ordered to pay $625 million to VirnetX after a U.S. court judged that the iPhone-maker had infringed on patents used in its iMessage and FaceTime... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Will Docker, CoreOS, IBM, AWS, Google, Red Hat change the future direction of the Cloud? Containers "represent a dramatic shift towards application-oriented infrastructure" states Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and member of the CNCF…. Learn More… Ron Miller Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion Cisco announced today it was buying Jasper Technologies, developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform for $1.4 billion. With Jasper, Cisco gets a... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Microsoft Acquires Swiftkey Cisco announces its buying Jasper Technologies, Amazon expands Alexa voice recognition to older Fire TVs, Fitbit launches a new fitness tracker called Alta, Instagram extends video ads to 60 seconds. Watch Now Emily Calandrelli The Race To Mine Asteroids Gains International Support Today, the Luxembourg Government announced that they are taking steps to become Europe’s hub for mining space resources. The small European country plans... Read More… Romain Dillet iPhone 7 Could Have A Flush Rear Camera Chances are you hate this protruding camera module pictured above on your current iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s. According to a new rumor on the iPhone 7 design (via... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Mike Gault Let’s Be Honest About The Problems With Blockchain And Finance Strange times we live in. The world's biggest financial players and analysts are buzzing about an invention that became famous partly by promising to destroy... Read More… Sarah Perez Google Boots Ad Blockers From Google Play Earlier this week, Samsung rolled out support for ad blocking in the new version of its web browser for mobile devices, the Samsung Internet Browser.... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Enterprise Application Specialist, City of Cambridge Posted: February 3 PHP Developer, Publishers Clearing House Posted: February 3 Senior Big Data Engineer, Publishers Clearing House Posted: February 3 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