Top Stories of the Day // October 24, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Oct 24, 2014

GREG KUMPARAK Amazon Fire Phone Flops Given that Amazon was tanking the price of the Fire Phone down to 99 cents two months after launch (leading to many a "Fire sale!" joke), this probably won't... read more

INGRID LUNDEN Slack Is Raising Another Round At Up To A $1B Valuation Slack, the enterprise collaboration platform co-founded by Stewart Butterfield of Flickr fame, continues to defy its namesake: we have heard from sources that... read more

GREG KUMPARAK PlayStation 4 Update Coming On 10/28 Lets You Play Games With Friends Who Don’t Own A Copy Back in August, Sony started teasing a new feature it calls "Share Play." Though we're still waiting to see just how well it works, the idea itself is... read more

JOSH CONSTINE Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic It's not quite anonymous, but forums standalone app Rooms is Facebook's first product that allows you to ditch your real name. Rooms lets you set up a... read more

ALEX WILHELM Amazon Tanks 10% After Reporting Larger Than Expected Third Quarter Loss Amazon reported lower than expected revenue in its third quarter, and a larger than expected loss. Analysts expected the company to lose $0.74 on revenue of... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON TestFlight Beta Testing Goes Live For All iOS Developers Apple has pushed its TestFlight Beta testing service live for everyone, the company revealed on its developer news portal today. Registered developers can now... read more

NATASHA LOMAS Bitcasa Ends Unlimited Storage Bitcasa, a cloud storage service that initially made waves with a low cost unlimited storage offer is scrapping this option entirely -- claiming it's not being... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Foundation: Biz Stone On Moving From Artist To Entrepreneur  In our latest Foundation interview, I sat down with Jelly CEO and co-founder Biz Stone. We discussed his... read more

TC Cribs: Eventbrite’s New Bright And Shiny HQ  Welcome back to a new episode of Cribs! This time around, we headed over to Eventbrite, the company behind... read more

Will.i.am’s New Wearable Can Call And Text Without A Phone  Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am revealed his new wearable device and company to the world in a Dreamforce... read more

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