Top Stories of the Day // December 29, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Dec 29, 2014

JOSH CONSTINE The Enormous Implications Of Facebook Indexing 1 Trillion Of Our Posts read more

STELI EFTI How Keeping Quiet Saved Our Startup $225K Most startup founders don’t think of themselves as master negotiators and struggle to come up with the right things to say in crucial moments. These moments... read more

ANTHONY HA Russian Startup Livemap Lands $300K Grant For Its Motorcycle Helmet With Built-In Navigation As we’re coming up on the next Consumer Electronics Show, I got an update from one of the companies that participated in TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield... read more

DANNY CRICHTON How Many Millions Should I Take From My Startup? read more

CATHERINE SHU Gmail Now Even More Inaccessible In China read more

TADHG KELLY Reflections On Microconsoles For a time I believed that microconsoles might change the face of the games industry, but they haven't really worked out. Thoughts on why. read more

CATHERINE SHU Xiaomi Confirms It Raised $1.1B At $45B Valuation Xiaomi, the fast-growing Chinese hardware company best known for its low-cost smartphones, confirmed today that has raised $1.1 billion in new funding at a... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Built In Brooklyn: Farmigo Brings Local Produce To Schools, Offices, And Homes  Food startup Farmigo is a San Francisco transplant — like me. The company was initially based on the... read more

Hands On With The Blackberry Classic  It’s been a long time coming: Blackberry’s return to its roots. Rather than chasing the pack,... read more

Gillmor Gang: Hackathon  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Alexia Tsotsis, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more

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