Saturday, November 7, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // November 7, 2015

Here’s That Insane Surprise Star Wars Trailer Scene-By-Scene As GIFs To Tear Apart | Linux Ransomware Is Now Attacking Webmasters | Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team | Apple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store | Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley | The Tech Gender Gap Has Only Gotten Worse, But Steve Jobs’ Contemporaries Think It Can Be Fixed | Leveraging Technology To Make Credit Credible |
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak

Here’s That Insane Surprise Star Wars Trailer Scene-By-Scene As GIFs To Tear Apart

A new Star Wars trailer appeared on Disney’s Japanese YouTube channel this morning, seemingly out of nowhere. The biggest surprise? It wasn’t just a... Read More…
John Biggs

Linux Ransomware Is Now Attacking Webmasters

A new bit of ransomware is now attacking Linux-based machines, specifically the folders associated with serving web pages. Called Linux.Encoder.1 the ransomware... Read More…
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Hardware Battlefield Applications Are Open Now for CES

Hardware Alley is TechCrunch's premier hardware event, taking CES by storm again this year. Applications for TechCrunch's Hardware Battlefield are now open. Submit your application by November 18 at 9pm PT to compete for free demo space at the Consumer Electronics Show, $50,000 prize and the Metal Man trophy. Learn More…
Drew Olanoff

Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team

Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over... Read More…
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Facebook Adds Songs to Updates With "Music Stories"

Postmates aquihires about half of Sosh’s team, YouTube Android app now supports virtual reality, Twitter’s SVP of Engineering Alex Roetter responds to diversity claims, a new DIY mask hack turns colors into scents. Watch Now
Sarah Perez

Apple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store

Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store that will help consumers better locate mobile shopping applications. The... Read More…
Alex Wilhelm

Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley

If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it? That is a... Read More…
Cat Zakrzewski

The Tech Gender Gap Has Only Gotten Worse, But Steve Jobs’ Contemporaries Think It Can Be Fixed

When Apple released the original Macintosh in the mid-1980s, the percentage of women majoring computer science was on the rise: 37 percent of computer science... Read More…
CRUNCH NETWORK | Sohrab Kohli, Thea Garon

Leveraging Technology To Make Credit Credible

The small-dollar credit (SDC) market -- think payday and auto-title lending -- is ripe for innovation and disruption. Most of the $44 billion industry consists... Read More…
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