Top Stories of the Day // October 23, 2017

Take a look at Apple’s first ‘Town Square,’ its most beautiful retail store yet | Ancestry answered the DNA questions 23andMe couldn’t | ‘Pay with Google’ goes live, allowing mobile users to pay with any card on file, not just those in Android Pay | Essential Phone gets a $200 price drop, existing customers get credit | Zero raises $8.5 million for a credit card that functions like a debit card | Watch the Amazon HQ2 video pitches from Detroit, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philly, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and DFW | Cisco scoops up BroadSoft for $1.9 billion to boost communications tools portfolio |

THE DAILY CRUNCH MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Lucas Matney Take a look at Apple’s first ‘Town Square,’ its most beautiful retail store yet This weekend, Apple took the wraps off of its first “Town Square” retail store in Chicago. The location marks Apple’s 497th retail store. The... Read More… Megan Rose Dickey Ancestry answered the DNA questions 23andMe couldn’t A really awesome thing about being black is that ancestry can be very unclear because of, you know, slavery. Enter DNA kits. Read More… Sarah Perez ‘Pay with Google’ goes live, allowing mobile users to pay with any card on file, not just those in Android Pay Google announced today it’s launching a new way to pay on mobile devices, using any card you have on file – including those saved to your Google... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Variety Magazine Variety's INNOVATE Summit - November 29th - Montage Beverly Hills Variety's INNOVATE Summit on Nov. 29 gathers cutting-edge technology leaders to discuss how AI, VR & AR are impacting content creation, storytelling, marketing & audience engagement. Register today & use TechCrunch to get 20% off registration. Learn More Darrell Etherington Essential Phone gets a $200 price drop, existing customers get credit Essential has an offer that’s honestly very hard to refuse: The price of the Essential Phone (PH-1, going by technical model number), is now $200 cheaper,... Read More… Katie Roof Zero raises $8.5 million for a credit card that functions like a debit card Just one-third of young adults have a credit card, according to a Bankrate survey. It’s partly due to concerns about debt. A startup called Zero thinks... Read More… Matt Burns Watch the Amazon HQ2 video pitches from Detroit, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philly, Las Vegas, Atlanta, and DFW Cities, regions and states are throwing everything at Amazon in the hopes the giant company will pick them to house its second headquarters. Amazon says 238... Read More… Ron Miller Cisco scoops up BroadSoft for $1.9 billion to boost communications tools portfolio One thing is clear, Cisco is not afraid to use its considerable cash on hand to fill in holes in its product portfolio. Today it wrote out a big fat check for... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer (CDN Specialist) at Tencent Cloud LLC (Palo Alto, CA, United States) Solutions Engineer, Tencent Cloud Platform at Tencent Cloud LLC (Claremont, CA, United States) Sr. Vice President of Engineering at BWBacon Group (Denver, Co) Front End Agile Web/Mobile Developer (React/Angular, JavaScript, CSS) at IHS Markit (Boulder, CO, United States) VP/ Head of Engineering at Guardhat (Southfield, MI, 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