Top Stories of the Day // January 17, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 17, 2015

INGRID LUNDEN Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard read more

ALEX WILHELM The Seed Bubble Has Popped New data published today by Mattermark CEO and co-founder Danielle Morrill concerning the venture capital industry paints a relatively stiff picture: Seed... read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Google Glass Is Not Dead Google ending its Glass Explorer program yesterday sparked a round of eulogies for the oft-ridiculed face computer. That's premature at best. In its current... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON, KYLE RUSSELL TC AppleCast 1: Watch Out For The Apple Watch read more

KEN MILLER Bitcoin Will Fix Remittances With Or Without The Western Unions Of The World In the late 90s, as personal computers and the Internet were increasingly finding their way into American homes, there were those who either didn’t recognize... read more

JOSH CONSTINE Justin Timberlake’s AfterMaster Chip Makes Any Device Sound Better read more

ANNA ESCHER 13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week It was a big week for Google, Elon Musk, and the UK Prime Minister. We took a look at Xiaomi's new phablet and learned what a real teenager actually thinks of... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: Facebook Goes Corporate, Box Prices, And Glass Skids To A Halt It’s Friday and that means CrunchWeek. This week Colleen Taylor, Kyle Russell and myself sat around the Small... read more

Author Nicholas Carlson Tells Us What Startups Can Learn From Marissa Mayer  There are few figures in the tech industry today who are more compelling than Marissa Mayer. So it’s... read more

Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.16.14  Gillmor Gang – John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording... read more

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