Top Stories of the Day // October 26, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Oct 26, 2014

JOSH CONSTINE CurrentC Is The Big Retailers’ Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees Long before Apple Pay, big brick-and-mortar retail chains were conspiring to sidestep the typical 2% to 3% fees they’re charged by credit card companies when... read more

JOHN BIGGS Myriam Joire AKA tnkgrl Is Out At Pebble Myriam Joire, evangelist for the wearables company Pebble, has been fired from her position. She was Tech Evangelist at the company and spoke at a number of... read more

ANNA ESCHER 11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week read more

JOHN BIGGS The ChronodeVFD Resurrects Old Displays For A Cool New Watch I am, as you may know, a sucker for watches that use older display technologies (see also Nixie tubes). For example, this cool watch by freelance engineer John... read more

JORDAN CROOK Google’s New Skybox For Good Program Gives Real-Time Satellite Imagery To Nonprofits On the heels of acquiring satellite startup Skybox in August, Google and Skybox have announced the Skybox for Good program, which will provide real-time... read more

NEILL OCCHIOGROSSO Security Will Need Big Insight, Not Just Big Data In looking for new opportunities in security, and many sectors, we look for the echoes of the current IT mega-trends: cloud, mobile, big data. These trends, and... read more

JORDAN CROOK Twitpic Data Will Stay Alive “For Now” Thanks To An Agreement With Twitter And in a somewhat happy turn of events, Twitpic has announced that it has reached an agreement with Twitter to keep Twitpic photos and links alive, giving... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Room to Grow  The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve... read more

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

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