Top Stories of the Day // September 8, 2015

Facebook’s Messenger And The Challenge To Google’s Search Dominance | Lenovo Blatantly Rips Off The iPhone 6 Design | BlaBlaCar Is Raising $160 Million From Insight, Valuing Ride-Sharing Startup At $1.2 Billion | How Legal Immigration Failed Silicon Valley | Raspberry, Shmazberry, There’s A $15 Single Board Computer Called The Orange Pi | Kill The Password | Obligatory Burning Man Think Piece |

DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Dan Kaplan Facebook’s Messenger And The Challenge To Google’s Search Dominance To understand how a digital personal assistant that lives inside a mobile messaging app represents a disruptive threat to Google, let's look at why Google is... Read More… Romain Dillet Lenovo Blatantly Rips Off The iPhone 6 Design Congratulations Lenovo, you just produced the most accurate iPhone 6 ripoff! The company just unveiled a new phablet called the Lenovo Phab Plus. It's huge, and... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Prepare Yourself For A Rollicking Bitcoin Panel At TechCrunch Disrupt Join us at Disrupt in San Francisco next month where we'll talk to some of the biggest names in cryptocurrency – entrepreneur Wences Casares, New York Times writer Nathaniel Popper, and China's bitcoin king, Bobbie Lee – about what's next for BTC. See you there! Learn More… Romain Dillet BlaBlaCar Is Raising $160 Million From Insight, Valuing Ride-Sharing Startup At $1.2 Billion A little more than a year after announcing a $100 million mega-round, we're hearing from multiple sources that long-distance ridesharing platform BlaBlaCar is... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Amit Paka How Legal Immigration Failed Silicon Valley Twelve years after filing for U.S. residency, I finally took the oath of citizenship in a quaint suburban theater, having spent seven of those prime... Read More… John Biggs Raspberry, Shmazberry, There’s A $15 Single Board Computer Called The Orange Pi Is $35 for a Raspberry Pi too rich for you blood? Do you prefer using sparsely-supported but cheap single board computers? Are you willing to ignore the... Read More… Ron Miller Kill The Password There are a myriad of problems with the password in the modern computing context. We are no longer signing onto a single mainframe. We have multiple... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Jon Evans Obligatory Burning Man Think Piece Larry, Sergey, and Eric are burners. So are Zuck, Dustin Moskovitz, and the Winklevii; so are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Shervin Pishevar. Every year thousands... 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