Top Stories of the Day // January 2, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 2, 2015

JOHN BIGGS Montblanc Announces A Smart Bracelet For Your Fancy Watch read more

JON RUSSELL Here’s How Chat Apps Are Becoming As Important As Social Media For Brands Social media marketing will soon include chat apps, as this example from Sir Paul McCartney and the use of Line show. read more

JON RUSSELL OnePlus Joins The Forked Android Club With Its Own Version Of Google’s Mobile OS Smartphone maker OnePlus pledged to develop its own software after partner Cyanogen did the dirty on it with an exclusive distribution with Micromax in India,... read more

ANTHONY HA The Best TV I Saw In 2014 Was On Netflix, And It Starred A Talking Horse When BoJack Horseman premiered on Netflix in August, it was with a lot less fanfare than we'd seen for House of Cards or Orange Is The New Black. (Heck, I think... read more

JOHN BIGGS High Tech Or Hangover? Watch Quake On An Oscilloscope read more

ANTHONY HA Scribd Raises $22M For Its Subscription E-Book Service Scribd, a startup offering unlimited access to half a million e-books for $8.99 a month, is announcing that it has Raised $22 million in additional funding.... read more

KEVIN YOUNG, ERIC BOGNER How Connectivity Will Need To Evolve Intelligent processing and awareness tools are providing sense-making capabilities, augmenting our ability to easily interpret data, and making information more... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek’s 2014 In Review: Hacks Aplenty, Mega Money, Tech’s Stars Under Scrutiny  This week’s episode of CrunchWeek is coming a couple of days early, since it’s really a CrunchYear... read more

Built In Brooklyn: Tattly Works With Artists And Designers To Create Sweet-Looking Temporary Tattoos  Thanks to Tattly, the Dumbo-based startup featured in our latest episode of Built in Brooklyn, you can adorn... read more

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

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