Top Stories of the Day // March 5, 2018

Netflix’s ‘Icarus’ wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature | Snapchat is stuck in the uncanny valley of AR glasses | Notes from Shenzhen — the next Greater Bay Area | Lyft commits to cutting the problem of health care transportation in half by 2020 | YouTube removes ads from InfoWars’ Alex Jones channel but says it has no plans to delete it | When venture capital becomes vanity capital | Taking on the Big 4 accounting giants, Paro receives $5m for its labor marketplace for financial professionals |

THE DAILY CRUNCH MONDAY, MARCH 5 2018 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Anthony Ha Netflix’s ‘Icarus’ wins the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature It was a quiet Oscar ceremony for the big streaming services, but Netflix’s doping film Icarus (directed by Bryan Fogel) did win the award for best... Read More… Josh Constine Snapchat is stuck in the uncanny valley of AR glasses "Timing", Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said cryptically when asked what the greatest threat was for Snap Inc. "I think the big risks are always the really big... Read More… Jon Evans Notes from Shenzhen — the next Greater Bay Area I just walked into Shenzhen, and boy, is my mind boggled. Let me just get all my knee-jerk chorus-line reactions out of the way, before we get to the weird... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Snowflake The Cloud Analytics World Tour is coming to a city near you. Join Snowflake, Wipro, Tableau, Talend and Looker in a city near you to learn how to bring all your data, business users and analytics tools into perfect union. This is an event Executives, IT and BI team members will not want to miss. Register Now. Learn More Darrell Etherington Lyft commits to cutting the problem of health care transportation in half by 2020 In the wake of Uber’s entry into the healthcare transportation market, Lyft wants to remind people that’s a space it’s been working at for... Read More… Ingrid Lunden YouTube removes ads from InfoWars’ Alex Jones channel but says it has no plans to delete it As YouTube continues in its efforts to crack down harder on content that violates its terms of usage and promotes offensive and/or misleading content,... Read More… Eric Paley When venture capital becomes vanity capital I’ve written a lot about the benefits of efficient entrepreneurship. I’ve explained my view conceptually, tried to illustrate the mechanics of how... Read More… Danny Crichton Taking on the Big 4 accounting giants, Paro receives $5m for its labor marketplace for financial professionals Accounting and financial controls are some of the most important functions of a modern company, but they are also serious cost centers. Hiring a full-time... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Architect at New Classrooms (New York, NY, USA) Senior Full Stack Developer at Jungle Scout (Vancouver, BC, Canada) Director of Digital Marketing at Pedago, LLC (Washington D.C., DC, USA) FPGA Designer/Concepteur de FPGA at Haivision Network Video (Montreal, QC, Canada) Director, Global Social/Digital Marketing, Bobbi Brown at Estee Lauder Companies (New York, NY, USA) 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 © 2018 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service