Top Stories of the Day // April 23, 2017

How to make Twitter profitable | Online grocery platform Farmdrop raises £7M Series A led by Atomico | The MWW Iconik 3 is an inexpensive automatic watch for military fans | Is a "robot tax" really an "innovation penalty"? | Books and roses | MakerBot's technology of the future grapples with its rocky past |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SUNDAY, APRIL 23 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Bruce Judson How to make Twitter profitable Twitter has evolved dramatically since its founding. What the founders fully envisioned we cannot know. Nonetheless, there is one thing we do know: Many... Read More… Steve O'Hear Online grocery platform Farmdrop raises £7M Series A led by Atomico Farmdrop, a farmer-friendly online grocery platform based in the U.K., has raised £7 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Atomico, the London VC... Read More… John Biggs The MWW Iconik 3 is an inexpensive automatic watch for military fans Manchester Watch Works aka MWW makes small batch watches that are sometimes homages to historic timepieces and are sometimes entirely new design. This model,... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT CrunchBoard Find Your Dream Hire As the official job board of TechCrunch, CrunchBoard leverages an engaged and educated audience of over 12 million unique readers each month to help fill your job vacancies. Post your job today! Learn More Steve Cousins Is a "robot tax" really an "innovation penalty"? When Bill Gates recently suggested robots should pay income tax like any other employee, I didn’t immediately disagree. I applaud Gates’ bold... Read More… Natasha Lomas Books and roses Anyone who thinks paper books are dead has never been in a Barcelona bookshop the day before Sant Jordi. The Patron Saint festival is Catalunya's equivalent of... Read More… Brian Heater MakerBot's technology of the future grapples with its rocky past Goshen has a small stack of papers sitting on a table beside him, should he need to consult any notes. He never actually looks over, however. After months of... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Front End Software Engineer at BrightEdge Technologies (Foster City, CA, United States) Full Stack Developer at Cooper Vision (Folsom, CA, United States) Senior Fintech Business Advisor at Ontario Securities Commission (Toronto, ON, Canada) Senior Software QA Engineer at Starry, Inc. (Boston, MA, United States) Call Center / Telephone Answering Service at THE ARC OF LOUISIANA (Atlanta, GA 30303, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser 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 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service