Top Stories of the Day // September 5, 2015

The Founder Of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay For HBO’s Silicon Valley And It’s Hilarious | App Release Notes Are Getting Stupid | The Interdependency Of Stanford And Silicon Valley | The Stylus Still Rules The Galaxy Note 5 | Etsy’s Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month | A Few Thoughts On The BlackBerry-Good Technology Deal | The Race To Frictionless Parking |

DAILY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE The Founder Of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay For HBO’s Silicon Valley And It’s Hilarious HBO’s Silicon Valley is a show pretty much based on an entire industry’s lack of self-awareness. Richard, Erlich and the rest of Pied Piper are... Read More… App Release Notes Are Getting Stupid "Bug fixes." "Jam packed full of Super Amazing Things." "Every 3 weeks, we polish up the Pinterest app to make it faster and better than ever." "To... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Only 2 Weeks Left to Submit to the 5th Annual 2015 UXies The top global awards for UX! TechCrunch Disrupt has partnered with the UXies for the second year in a row! Submit your best UX case studies for global recognition at: http://uxawards.org by 9/15, and vote now for your favorites from the early submissions! Learn More… CRUNCH NETWORK The Interdependency Of Stanford And Silicon Valley There was a time when Stanford University was considered a second-rate engineering school. It was the early 1940s, and the Department of Defense was pressed to... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Hipster Barbie Is All Of Us On Instagram Apple’s TV share of OTT viewing is growing, 500 startups has closed its third global fund with $85 million, WhatsApphas crossed 900 million monthly active users, Blackberry purchases mobile device management vendor Good Technology. Watch Now The Stylus Still Rules The Galaxy Note 5 The concept Galaxy Note 5 is at once a thing of genius and a nod to a benighted world before the modern touchscreen. Born in the swamps of the resistive LCD,... Read More… Etsy’s Pulling The Plug On Grand St. At The End Of This Month When Etsy bought Grand St. last April, the plan was to let Grand St. continue to operate its maker marketplace for tech hardware. But that’s about to... Read More… A Few Thoughts On The BlackBerry-Good Technology Deal So much for that IPO, I suppose. Good Technology, a long-time IPO candidate with reams of public financial data, was snapped up by BlackBerry this morning... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK The Race To Frictionless Parking Parking. It's an issue that impacts everyone who owns a car. People might not think about it or talk about it, but it certainly can be one of those daily... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service