Top Stories of the Day // February 22, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Feb 22, 2015

SARAH BUHR Protect Your Smartphone From Government Spies With These Apps read more

MATTHEW PANZARINO Twitter’s Dilemma read more

JOSH CONSTINE A Rant About The Smartest Thing Yahoo’s Done In Years read more

JOHN SERRAO Restaurant Tech Restocked For Tomorrow And Beyond A recent article in TechCrunch characterized nascent upstarts in the restaurant industry as wide-eyed idealists with little reality of the harsh, high-touch... read more

NIR EYAL How Technology Is Tricking You Into Tipping More My taxi pulled up to the hotel. I got out my credit card and prepared to pay for the ride. The journey was pleasant enough but little did I know I was about to... read more

RON MILLER Wall Street-Backed Symphony Wants To Revolutionize Financial Services Communication read more

NATASHA LOMAS Social Location App FacesIn Pivots To Future Whereabouts Social location app FacesIn has relaunched with a new focus on delivering location-based alerts about where someone will be soon -- not just where they are... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Notification Trust  The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include notifications... read more

CrunchWeek: YikYak Vs. Spam, VCs Funding Coffee, Big Steps For Science Tech  Another week in tech has come and gone, bringing a fresh crop of stories for us to talk about on CrunchWeek,... read more

Celebrate This Terrible Winter With The Highlights Of Amazon’s Summer Preview  Amazon.com hosted a summer preview event in New York City today, and I’ll be real honest: I thought... read more

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