Top Stories of the Day // January 1, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 1, 2015

JOHN BIGGS Comcast Customer Spends Four Hours Canceling His Account read more

JONATHAN SHIEBER 7 Venture Capitalists Predict What Will Happen In 2015 From cloud wars to the certainty that there will be hacks, venture capitalists believe that 2015 will be a year of tumult and (in public markets anyway) triumph... read more

INGRID LUNDEN, ALEXIA TSOTSIS Snapchat Has Raised $485 Million More From 23 Investors, At Valuation Of At Least $10B read more

GREG KUMPARAK On Comcast? Buy Your Own Modem. Comcast just raised their modem rental fees from $8 to $10, because apparently charging you too much for a modem costs more than it used to. If you're on... read more

CATHERINE SHU All Of Samsung’s New Smart TVs Will Run Its Tizen Operating System In its latest attempt to make the operating system happen, Samsung announced today that all of its smart televisions will include a Tizen-based platform in... read more

DAVID HIRSCH Ten Ways The World Changed In 2014 read more

SARAH PEREZ Netflix Helps You Trick Kids Into Thinking Midnight Came Early With An On-Demand Countdown 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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