Top Stories of the Day // December 12, 2014

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Dec 12, 2014

SOPHIE KITSON Perks Don’t Work In Silicon Valley and across the technology industry, there is a real risk of commoditizing engineers. What does that mean? Literally treating engineers like a... read more

SARAH PEREZ Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations read more

GREG KUMPARAK YouTube Gets A Built-In GIF Creator Remember back in November of last year, when I wrote that YouTube needed to build their own tool for making GIFs from videos? Some called me crazy. Many,... read more

CATHERINE SHU Google Translate Adds 10 More Languages, Including Burmese Google’s translation tool is constantly adding new languages, but its latest update is notable because it includes Burmese, the official language of Myanmar,... read more

SPONSORED CONTENT T.J. Miller to Host the 8th Annual Crunchies Watch T.J. Miller channel his inner Erlich as he hosts Silicon Valley’s biggest and most prominent technology and startups awards show.

GREG KUMPARAK Chromecast Now Lets Your Guests Take Over Your TV Without Needing Your WiFi Password read more

JON RUSSELL, CATHERINE SHU China’s Baidu Set To Partner With Uber And Reportedly Invest Up To $600M Uber may have just raised a fresh $1.2 billion this month, but the company looks set to welcome a new investor, Chinese internet giant Baidu, which is... read more

JOSH CONSTINE In Public Q&A, Zuckerberg Says Facebook Wants Diverse Expression But Won’t Launch A Dislike Button read more

TOP VIDEOS

Built In Brooklyn: Wool&Prince Plans To Make Wool Shirts Cool For Young Professionals  utton-down shirts and T-shirts might not sound like a particularly exciting or sexy market, but men’s... read more

Gillmor Gang: Not Fade Away  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday,... read more

Gillmor Gang LIVE 12.05.14  Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today... read more

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