Top Stories of the Day // December 3, 2014

	Final Day to Nominate Your Favorite Startup For A Crunchie Today's Top Stories // Dec 3, 2014 Sarah Perez Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, A New Communications App Launching Today On iOS, Android And Mac Skype co-founder Janus Friis is backing a new communications app called Wire, out now for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. The app itself is the reimagining of how a... read more Ryan Lawler Stripe Raises Another $70 Million, Doubling Its Valuation To $3.5 Billion Ultra-hot payments startup Stripe has brought on $70 million in new funding that will double its valuation less than a year after its last raise. The round,... read more Matt Turck The Internet Of Things Is Reaching Escape Velocity The frenzy around the Internet of Things (IoT) should be reaching its final countdown. There has been a period of extraordinary activity in the IoT space... read more Alex Wilhelm Android 5.0 Currently Runs On Fewer Than 0.1% Of Handsets Google's recently released Android 5.0 mobile operating system is currently running on fewer than 0.1 percent of handsets, according to data released by the... read more Sponsored Content CEA: Patent trolls bleed $80 billion a year from the U.S. economy After another year of attacking startups, patent trolls are thriving. No innovator is safe, until Congress changes the law. Frederic Lardinois Firefox Could Soon Come To iOS For a year now, Mozilla has categorically stated that it wouldn't release a version of Firefox for iOS because Apple won't let it use its own web engine on its... read more Josh Constine How To Hire When Everyone Wants To Found Their Own Startup Back before founding a company was cool, it was a lot easier to get a lot of smart people in a room. Rock stars were hireable because they weren't forging their... read more Frederic Lardinois Google’s reCAPTCHA (Mostly) Does Away With Those Annoying CAPTCHAs read more TOP VIDEOS TC Cribs: Pact Coffee's London Office Is As Fresh As Its Coffee  Pact Coffee is on a mission to become a daily habit for Brits, with a tech-driven startup that can deliver... read more Built In Brooklyn: Atavist Is Both Publisher And Platform For Online Storytelling  We returned to Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood for the latest episode of Built in Brooklyn. This time... read more Gillmor Gang: Basement Tape  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // December 2, 2014

	Just 2 Days Left to Nominate Your Favorite Startup For A Crunchie Today's Top Stories // Dec 2, 2014 Darrell Etherington Apple Patents An iPhone Drop Protection Mechanism That Changes Device Angle In Freefall read more John Biggs New ATM Skimmers Connect To The Card Reader Via A Nearly Invisible Hole read more Frederic Lardinois Firefox 34 Launches With Yahoo As Its Default Search Engine Mozilla today rolled out Firefox 34. While most browser updates these days aren't all that exciting, this one includes a couple of interesting new features.... read more Greg Kumparak Microsoft Is Getting Rid Of Clip Art There are many things that the next generation of geek won't get to experience. The sound of the 56k modem connecting when your parents are sleeping in the... read more Sponsored Content Tune-in to TechCrunch Radio on SiriusXM Indie 101 Today at 6pm ET/3pm PT Join Jordan Crook & John Biggs as they discuss the week's news, chat with interesting folks about various technological industries and moderate a startup pitch-off. Jordan Crook Bumble Is Exactly Like Tinder Except Girls Are In Charge Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that Whitney Wolfe and a group of other former Tinder employees are launching a new Tinder competitor called Bumble. This... read more Frederic Lardinois CoreOS Calls Docker “Fundamentally Flawed,” Launches Its Own Container Runtime Docker containers are one of the hottest technologies around and CoreOS, a Linux-based operating system for very large server deployments, built its service... read more Jon Russell, Steve O'Hear Rocket Internet’s Helpling Mops Up $17M For Its Cleaners-On-Demand Service Helpling, the Rocket Internet-backed cleaner-on-demand service, has tidied in a nice little sum of its own after announcing $17 million in fresh funding.... read more TOP VIDEOS Built In Brooklyn: Atavist Is Both Publisher And Platform For Online Storytelling  We returned to Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood for the latest episode of Built in Brooklyn. This time... read more Gillmor Gang: Basement Tape  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.28.14  Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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