Top Stories of the Day // June 8, 2016

The unsexiest trillion-dollar startup | How a 30K-member Facebook group filled the void left by Uber and Lyft in Austin | Silicon Valley shows its primary colors | Is HTML5 the new Windows? | Rakuten to exit the UK, Austria and Spain as global retrenchment continues | Secret’s founder returns with Bold, a Medium for enterprise | Google launches new certification program for software development agencies |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine The unsexiest trillion-dollar startup Steve Jobs went ballistic when public shipping manifests leaked the existence of the iPhone 3G. That’s about the only time something exciting happened in... Read More… Fitz Tepper How a 30K-member Facebook group filled the void left by Uber and Lyft in Austin Exactly a month ago, Uber and Lyft paused operations in Austin after voters defeated Proposition 1, an attempt to overturn mandatory fingerprint-based... 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… Kate Conger, Sarah Buhr Silicon Valley shows its primary colors Chris Sacca, an early investor in Twitter, Uber and Instagram, also bet early on Clinton, contributing to her campaign in July 2006. Bill Gates and Sheryl... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Verizon's Eyeing Yahoo for $3 Billion Verizon wants to buy Yahoo for $3 billion, Snapchat gets a redesign, Google has a new video app for iOS, Twitter launches new timeline embed tools for developers, Good for PoC launches Watch Now CRUNCH NETWORK | Paul Stannard Is HTML5 the new Windows? If you are as old as me, you remember the transition from MS DOS to Windows in the early 1990s. Might the arrival of new cloud-based apps that run in a web... Read More… Jon Russell Rakuten to exit the UK, Austria and Spain as global retrenchment continues Rakuten is downsizing its international presence once again after Japan's top e-commerce firm announced plans to shutter its e-commerce businesses in the UK,... Read More… Josh Constine Secret’s founder returns with Bold, a Medium for enterprise David Byttow learned just how much goes unsaid inside companies while he was running Secret. Blasting private information out publicly causes harassment, which... Read More… Frederic Lardinois Google launches new certification program for software development agencies Google today announced a new certification program for development agencies. The idea behind the program is to recognize agencies that “have undergone... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Manager, Platform Engineering at IAC Applications (Yonkers, NY, United States) Senior Product Manager @ Ampush at Ampush (San Francisco, CA, United States) FileNet System Administrator at LegalZoom (Glendale, CA, United States) Senior Python Developer at National Journal (Washington, D.C., DC, United States) Software Engineer at Consensus Corporation (San Francisco, 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