Top Stories of the Day // March 5, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Mar 5, 2015

JOSH CONSTINE Instagram Starts Letting Ads Be Clickable Instagram never allowed URLs to open until now. It wanted people browsing photos, not the web. But Instagram says its advertisers demanded more vivid ways to... read more

GREG KUMPARAK, ALEX WILHELM, ANTHONY HA Etsy Officially Files To Go Public, Aims To Raise $100M Word started going around back in January that Etsy, the online market for handmade goods, was planning to go public. Sure enough, they've just filed the... read more

JON RUSSELL Flipkart’s New Silicon Valley Hire Shows India’s Startup Scene Is Really Taking Off We don't often write about appointments, but sometimes they capture industry trends and are noteworthy in that respect. That's the case for India's billion... read more

JOHN BIGGS HTC And Valve Have Cracked The VR Code read more

SPONSORED CONTENT Startups Raised a Total of $4.4B After Participating in Startup Battlefield Some fail hard. Others win big. See the complete list of startups and their funding status.

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Sounds Like It Could Stretch The Definition Of ‘iPad’ read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple Exploring iPhone Waterproofing Methods read more

MATT BURNS Even With Delays, Building A 12.9-Inch iPad Could Be The Easy Part Rumors of an iPad with a larger screen simply will not die. Bloomberg is today reporting that a 12.9-inch iPad will hit manufacturing lines in September. That... read more

TOP VIDEOS

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

Hands On Video With HTC’s New Android Flagship, The One M9  It’s evolution not revolution for HTC’s new top-of-the-line smartphone, the One M9. But the predecessors... read more

Gillmor Gang: Temporary Filling  The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Microsoft... read more

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