Top Stories of the Day // January 9, 2016

Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine | Uber Lowers Fares In Over 100 Cities | Why SpaceX Is Changing Its Rocket Landing Location | Lily, A Camera Drone That Automatically Follows You, Pulls In A Mountainous $34 Million In Pre-orders | Unicorns And Little Ponies Hit The Slaughterhouse As Maker Media Lays Off 17 | Harry Potter Books Head To Kindle And Nook After Pottermore Suffers Cruciatus Curse | Analytics Startup Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees |

DAILY SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Drew Olanoff Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are the hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us.... Read More… Katie Roof Uber Lowers Fares In Over 100 Cities Uber is lowering prices in over 100 U.S. and Canadian cities, effective tomorrow. January is a slower month for the car service and the company says it is... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Download go90 for CES 2016! Download go90 to watch the Hardware Battlefield competition, the Best of CES Awards, plus an exclusive CES tour with digital prophet David Shing. Get more details. Learn More… Emily Calandrelli Why SpaceX Is Changing Its Rocket Landing Location SpaceX has confirmed that they will attempt another, more difficult, rocket landing on their next launch January 17th. Their Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Lenovo Is Making The First Google Project Tango Phone Apple may be nixing iPhone headphone jacks in favor of wireless headphones, the Lily Drone has already had 60,000 pre-orders, YouTube is adding support for High Dynamic Range Video, smart remote maker Peel launches an Apple Watch App compatible with 400k different electronic devices. Watch Now Sarah Buhr Lily, A Camera Drone That Automatically Follows You, Pulls In A Mountainous $34 Million In Pre-orders Self-driving drone Lily has had quite the success in sales and it’s not even on the market yet. The startup pulled in a whopping $34 million in pre-orders... Read More… Josh Constine Unicorns And Little Ponies Hit The Slaughterhouse As Maker Media Lays Off 17 Stables full of startups are being turned into glue, whether they’re mythical beasts, donkeys in party hats, or just baby horses. The latest forced to do... Read More… John Biggs Harry Potter Books Head To Kindle And Nook After Pottermore Suffers Cruciatus Curse Whether you side with Hufflepuff or Slytherin, it sucked that you could only get Harry Potter ebooks from a special service called Pottermore… until now.... Read More… Anthony Ha Analytics Startup Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees Mixpanel laid off 18 people yesterday, representing less than 10 percent of its 230-plus person team. “This is obviously a deeply tough decision,”... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Infrastructure Operations Lead , THOMAS PUBLISHING COMPANY LLC Posted: January 8 Product Marketing Manager; SaaS B2B, 1010data Posted: January 8 IT Support Technician , Humphreys & Partners Architects Posted: January 8 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