Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2016

Katy Perry's Twitter account, the platform's most followed, got hacked | Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high | French financial prosecutor went dark for a year to investigate Google France | How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego | Vista Equity Partners buys marketing automation giant Marketo for $1.8B in cash | PayPal to halt operations in Turkey after losing license, impacts ‘hundreds of thousands’ | Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agree to remove hate speech across the EU |

DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 31 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Catherine Shu Katy Perry's Twitter account, the platform's most followed, got hacked Many of Katy Perry's 89 million Twitter followers—the most on the platform—were probably intrigued and confused when the pop star tweeted supposed... Read More… Romain Dillet Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are positive signs indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as everybody thought. Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT OtterBox Launches Modular iPhone Case with Leading Accessory Brands The OtterBox uniVERSE Case System provides trusted protection plus an ecosystem of accessories that attach directly to the case. Learn More… Romain Dillet French financial prosecutor went dark for a year to investigate Google France Google was caught by surprise. Last week, nearly 100 of France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des Finances) raided Google's office in Paris... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Andrew Gazdecki How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego Companies have long come to the Bay Area to plant their seeds, and for good reason. The stretch of land from San Jose to San Francisco encompasses some of the... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Vista Equity Partners buys marketing automation giant Marketo for $1.8B in cash Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79... Read More… Ingrid Lunden PayPal to halt operations in Turkey after losing license, impacts ‘hundreds of thousands’ Turkey has been making moves to bring tech business in the country under more localised control, and today big U.S. online payments company PayPal became the... Read More… Romain Dillet Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft agree to remove hate speech across the EU Facebook, Twitter, Google's YouTube, Microsoft as well as the European Commission unveiled a new code of conduct to remove hate speech according to community... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: User Interface Developer at Proximie (Boston, MA, United States) Augmented Reality Engineer at Proximie (Boston, MA, United States) SALES REPRESENTATIVE at EMCURE PHARMACEUTICALS LTD (Los Angeles, CA, United States) Customer Service at SML GROUP LIMITED (Valley Stream, NY, United States) Data Entry Clerk at EMCURE PHARMACEUTICALS LTD (Los Angeles, CA, United States) 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