Top Stories of the Day // February 22, 2016

In Employee Email, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Commission On Interaction Of Technology And Intelligence Gathering | Amazon Raises Its Free Shipping Minimum To $49 For Non-Prime Members | Qubit Raises $40M To Power Big-Data Analytics For Marketing That Goes Beyond Adwords | HP Announces Yet Another Mobile Product That Will Fail | After Jibe Mobile Buy, Google To Provide Carriers With Android RCS Client | Samsung Brings Back Expandable Memory, Water Resistance To Galaxy Line With The S7 And S7 Edge | Nokia: We're In No Rush To Get Our Brand Back On Phones |

DAILY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Matthew Panzarino In Employee Email, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Commission On Interaction Of Technology And Intelligence Gathering Early this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email out to employees about the FBI's request to unlock an iPhone with the subject line 'Thank you for your... Read More… Frederic Lardinois Amazon Raises Its Free Shipping Minimum To $49 For Non-Prime Members Even without a Prime membership, Amazon always offered free (and slow) shipping for orders over a certain minimum. For the longest time, that minimum was $25,... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT $1200 Savings Extended On Disrupt NY Tickets You now have three more days to save $1200 on world-class networking with investors, entrepreneurs and hundreds of early-stage startups at Disrupt NY this May. Get your tickets now! Learn More… Ingrid Lunden Qubit Raises $40M To Power Big-Data Analytics For Marketing That Goes Beyond Adwords The halcyon days of people clicking on Google search links and instantly converting into customers are over. But a startup called Qubit, founded by four... Read More… Matt Burns HP Announces Yet Another Mobile Product That Will Fail HP clearly didn't get the memo that Windows Phone is dead. Meet HP's first flagship smartphone since the Palm Pre 3. HP calls Elite x3 a "revolutionary mobile... Read More… Natasha Lomas After Jibe Mobile Buy, Google To Provide Carriers With Android RCS Client Here at Mobile World Congress 2016, the annual Barcelona-based flesh-pressing of the telco industry, Google and a bunch of carriers have put out a press release... Read More… Lucas Matney Samsung Brings Back Expandable Memory, Water Resistance To Galaxy Line With The S7 And S7 Edge Samsung showed off the new S7 and S7 edge at its Galaxy Unpacked event today at MWC 2016 in Barcelona. They’re retro. The new Galaxy phones are a... Read More… Natasha Lomas Nokia: We're In No Rush To Get Our Brand Back On Phones After exiting the smartphone market dramatically by selling its mobile making division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion back in 2013, Nokia has hinted it is... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Product Manager, Liftopia Posted: February 19 Software Engineer, Android, Location Labs Posted: February 19 IoT Security Positions, Canary Posted: February 19 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