Top Stories of the Day // January 27, 2016

VMware Confirms Layoffs In Earnings Statement As It Prepares For Dell Acquisition | Sweden Is A Tech Superstar From The North | “Hey! VINA” Is A Tinder For (Girl) Friends | Uber Gets Fined $1.3 Million For Ambiguous Driver Training Videos In France | Prototyping Suite InVision Is Acquiring Design Tool Macaw | First-Look: Enterprise Messaging App Grape’s NLP Engine | Walmart Launches OneOps, An Open-Source Cloud And Application Lifecycle Management Platform |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Ron Miller VMware Confirms Layoffs In Earnings Statement As It Prepares For Dell Acquisition VMware confirmed that it was laying off 800 employees today as part of its fourth quarter earnings statement. The layoffs had been originally reported by... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Dennis Mitzner Sweden Is A Tech Superstar From The North While most of Europe has been mired in economic turmoil since 2008, Sweden has managed to stay afloat -- and even accelerate its growth. The country and,... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Who Will Win The Crunchie For Best Mobile App Of 2015? Will it be Citymapper, Messenger, Periscope, Robinhood or Wish? Find out at the 9th Annual Crunchies this February at the SF Opera House! Learn More… Sarah Perez “Hey! VINA” Is A Tinder For (Girl) Friends A startup called VINA is launching a mobile app today that operates a lot like a Tinder, but is aimed at women seeking new friends. And no, not... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Apple Earnings Beat Street, But iPhone Sales Fall Short Jack Dorsey announces new Chief Marketing Officer at Twitter, GoPro is integrating with Periscope for live streaming, Inbox by Gmail gets a new feature, new study suggests that heavy social media users are more likely to have sleep disturbances. Watch Now Romain Dillet Uber Gets Fined $1.3 Million For Ambiguous Driver Training Videos In France Urban transportation company Uber is having a rough week in France. Following yesterday's protests, the high court of Paris just fined Uber $1.3 million (€1.2... Read More… Fitz Tepper Prototyping Suite InVision Is Acquiring Design Tool Macaw InVision, a prototyping tool we’ve covered before, is acquiring code-based design tool Macaw. InVision is a product and prototype design tool used by... Read More… Steve O'Hear First-Look: Enterprise Messaging App Grape’s NLP Engine Over the last few years, Grape, the enterprise messaging app backed by Betaworks and Zinga founder Mark Pincus, has been toiling away to build a smarter chat... Read More… Frederic Lardinois Walmart Launches OneOps, An Open-Source Cloud And Application Lifecycle Management Platform Walmart (yes, that Walmart), is launching a new open source DevOps platform for cloud and application lifecycle management. OneOps, which was developed by... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Media Associate - Biz Dev and Acct Mgmt (College Graduate), HomeAdvisor Posted: January 27 Product Manager , Checkr Posted: January 26 Senior Business Development Manager (m/f), Pepper Media Holding GmbH Posted: January 25 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service