Top Stories of the Day // March 14, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Mar 14, 2015

GREG KUMPARAK This Guy Turned A Quadcopter Into A Star Wars Speeder Bike And It’s Amazing Okay, this is the last quadcopter-to-"Star Wars Universe"-thing we (or at least I) will post*, I promise. BUT SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT THIS THING. It is... read more

GREG KUMPARAK Twitter Starts Breaking Meerkat Features By Limiting Social Graph Access read more

JOSH CONSTINE Facebook Buys And Shuts Down Shopping Site TheFind To Boost Commerce In Ads Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from... read more

IAN CARLETON SCHAEFER, NANCY L. GUNZENHAUSER Employment Issues Your Startup Should Not Ignore Startups of all sizes face challenges in finding folks who want to work at the company and share their vision. Hiring is tough and welcoming these people... read more

JOSH CONSTINE Twitter Confirms Periscope Acquisition, And Here’s How The Livestreaming App Works read more

SARAH PEREZ Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 4: Favorite Apps And Resources) It's now been over three months since I've adopted the cord-cutting lifestyle, thanks to finally following through on a long overdue New Year's Resolution.... read more

JON EVANS Creeping Towards Hardware As A Service There seems to be cool new hardware everywhere I look these days. Swimming drones. Crash-proof flying drones. Creepy robots. Kickstarters like Hackaball, "a... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: Box’s Earnings, Apple’s Watch, And What The Hell Is Meerkat  CrunchWeek is back with a new face running the ship: Recent TechCrunch hire Sarah Lane was our captain this... read more

Gillmor Gang: Hold the Phone  The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include... read more

Garmin Fenix 3 Review: For When You Need To Look Good Tracking Your Activity  This is common and one of the chief concerns Garmin is addressing with the Fenix 3. It looks and works like... read more

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