Top Stories of the Day // February 2, 2016

Alphabet Becomes The Most Valuable Public Company In The World | Don’t Mess With Musk | NASA's Super Guppy Gives Mars-Bound Spacecraft A Lift | Evernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday | AR Startup Magic Leap Raises $793.5M Series C At $4.5B Valuation Led By Alibaba | WhatsApp Hits One Billion Users, Remains In Search Of Revenue | Magic Leap Adds Alibaba’s Jack Ma To Board As New Funding Pushes Valuation To $5B |

DAILY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Matthew Lynley Alphabet Becomes The Most Valuable Public Company In The World Today was a huge day for Alphabet — the first day it finally broke out its “other bets” in its earnings report — and boy did the... Read More… Connie Loizos Don’t Mess With Musk Earlier today, longtime Bay Area venture capitalist Stewart Alsop posted something fairly unexpected to Medium. In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT 20% off Valentine's Day Flowers that last The Bouqs Co. delivers the freshest, longest lasting, most vibrant, affordable, and ethical flowers on earth. No fees. No surprises. Nothing but the best. Learn More… Emily Calandrelli NASA's Super Guppy Gives Mars-Bound Spacecraft A Lift Today the Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to bring humans to Mars, starts its next phase of development at Kennedy Space Center. The remarkable... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Alphabet Just Became World's Most Valuable Company Samsung adds a default ad blocker on Android phones, Facebook tweaks the News Feed to combat clickbait, tablet sales fell about 10% in 2015, Sesame Street’s creators join VC world to make a fund focused on improving children’s lives. Watch Now Ingrid Lunden Evernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday Some more news from Evernote — the note-taking app and startup of the same name — that speaks to the company’s current rough patch: today it... Read More… Ingrid Lunden AR Startup Magic Leap Raises $793.5M Series C At $4.5B Valuation Led By Alibaba Magic Leap has been successful in keeping a lot of its technology under wraps — the augmented and virtual reality technology company has yet to release a... Read More… Nitish Kulkarni WhatsApp Hits One Billion Users, Remains In Search Of Revenue You know what’s cooler than a (several hundred) million users? A billion users. Just over a week after announcing the scrapping of the Facebook-owned... Read More… Jon Russell Magic Leap Adds Alibaba’s Jack Ma To Board As New Funding Pushes Valuation To $5B Magic Leap, the much-hyped augmented reality company, doesn't officially have a product yet, but that isn't stopping the company from focusing on the potential... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Junior Product Manager (M/F), Zoobe Posted: February 2 Senior Product Manager (M/F), Zoobe Posted: February 2 Sales Generalist, Expensify Posted: February 1 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