Top Stories of the Day // December 25, 2016

Snapchat has quietly acquired an Israeli startup for a reported $30 million to $40 million | After having its infrastructure shuttered, CyanogenMod will live on as Lineage | Dear Air Canada: a systems analysis of a comically colossal cascading failure | Tim Curry will read you 'A Christmas Carol' from your Amazon Echo | The reality of VR/AR trial | Technology and today's vast and immensely underserved mental health population | The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Connie Loizos Snapchat has quietly acquired an Israeli startup for a reported $30 million to $40 million Snapchat sewed up its first acquisition in Israel this week, according to the outlet Calcalist News. It acquired four-year-old Cimagine, whose augmented reality... Read More… Brian Heater After having its infrastructure shuttered, CyanogenMod will live on as Lineage The days leading up to the holiday have been a real roller coaster ride for Cyanogen fans. Yesterday, Cyanogen Inc. unceremoniously pulled the plug on its... Read More… Jon Evans Dear Air Canada: a systems analysis of a comically colossal cascading failure I'll be blunt; I'm here to vent my fury. On your behalf, dear reader! Honest. When a corporation gets things terribly wrong, those of us with platforms need to... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT CUBE CUBE Labfolder, StoreDot, Konux, or Tridom are high-tech startups disrupting their industry and part of our global startup ecosystem alongside industry titans. Come meet them and the most influential people in tech and industry at the CUBE Tech Fair in May 2017. Learn More Brian Heater Tim Curry will read you 'A Christmas Carol' from your Amazon Echo It’s the time of year when we find ourselves together with our loved ones, gathered around the warming seasonal glow of our smart home devices. And for... Read More… Tim Merel The reality of VR/AR trial If you haven't heard about VR/AR by now, your desert island must not have Wi-Fi. But there are millions of folks who know about VR/AR who haven't seen it... Read More… Adam Seabrook Technology and today's vast and immensely underserved mental health population Someone in your life is suffering from a mental disorder right now. You may not know it, but it's there. Indeed, one in five adults suffers from a mental... Read More… Charles Wiles The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing Previously considered risky investments, it's true that many edtech startups -- commonly founded by "teacherpreneurs" hell bent on mending education through... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Engineer II at LSI (Jacksonville, FL, United States) Full Stack Software Engineer @ Way2B1 at Way2b1 (San Francisco, CA, United States) Cloud Operations Engineer @ Way2B1 at Way2B1 (San Francisco, CA, United States) Platform Engineer @ Pantheon at The Sourcery (San Francisco, CA, United States) Technical Product Manager @ PANTHEON at The Sourcery (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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service