Top Stories of the Day // December 3, 2014

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

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