Top Stories of the Day // July 30, 2015

Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation |

Facebook’s Playbook For Monetizing Messenger And WhatsApp |

Microsoft Has A Brand New Middle Finger With Your Name On It |

Tesla Experiments With Giving Out Free Cars, Exclusive Models, And Discounts For Referrals |

GoButler Takes Its SMS Personal Assistant Out Of Beta, Raises $8M |

Amazon Now Lets Prime Users Pay Money To Easily Pay More Money Easier |

Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri Lanka With Internet |

	Register to get a 2-for-1 code to Disrupt London. Next ticket release is coming up! Today's Top Stories // Jul 30, 2015 Ingrid Lunden Caller ID App Truecaller Is Raising $100M At A $1B Valuation Communications apps that strike a chord with users across different markets are hot property these days, and it looks like another one of them may soon enter... read more Josh Constine Facebook’s Playbook For Monetizing Messenger And WhatsApp With 700 million Messenger users, investors are eager to see Facebook earn money on the platform. But Zuckerberg put the brakes on those expectations today... read more Drew Olanoff, Alex Wilhelm Microsoft Has A Brand New Middle Finger With Your Name On It Today, Windows 10 met the world with much fanfare. There is a ton of new features, apps and more articles about it than you can shake a stick at. As a heavy... read more Greg Kumparak Tesla Experiments With Giving Out Free Cars, Exclusive Models, And Discounts For Referrals Here’s a curious bit of news out of Tesla this afternoon: they’re experimenting with a customer referral program. A few people — emphasis on... read more Sponsored Content Get the Exclusive Lean Startup Conference Deal Some of the world's largest companies already are implementing The Lean Startup principles… and are willing to share their insights, processes and best practices with you. Get Immediate Access Here. Anthony Ha GoButler Takes Its SMS Personal Assistant Out Of Beta, Raises $8M GoButler has a straightforward premise — you should be able to send a text message and one of its "Heroes" will help you get whatever you need, whether you... read more Drew Olanoff Amazon Now Lets Prime Users Pay Money To Easily Pay More Money Easier Amazon Prime has become Amazon’s way of getting cool stuff into people’s hands quicker, to the tune of an annual $99 subscription. You can get... read more Drew Olanoff Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri Lanka With Internet Google is working on many things, and that includes balloons that fly high in the sky to bring Internet infrastructure to locations that can’t be wired... read more TOP VIDEOS Yahoo Shows Off Its New Livetext Messaging App  Yahoo unveiled a new app today called Livetext, where users can send each other video and text — but... read more Fly Or Die: MC Squares You might assume that, when it comes to a standard whiteboard, there isn’t much room for disruption. But... read more Gillmor Gang: Fare Trade  The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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