Top Stories of the Day // January 5, 2019

Security researchers find over a dozen iPhone apps linked to Golduck malware | How Trulia began paying down its technical debt | Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only way they know how | Served a summons via tweet? It just happened to one allegedly elusive VC | Disney's Star Wars Land could open in June, says CEO Bob Iger | Elon Musk angles to keep his ex and '420' Twitter drama out of lawsuit | Another day, another reversal in the stock market |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, JANUARY 5 2019 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Zack Whittaker Security researchers find over a dozen iPhone apps linked to Golduck malware Security researchers say they've found more than a dozen iPhone apps covertly communicating with a server associated with Golduck, a historically Android-focused malware that infects popular classic game apps. The... Read More… Ron Miller How Trulia began paying down its technical debt As every software company knows, over time as code ages and workarounds build on work-arounds, the code base becomes bloated. It becomes ever more difficult to get around the technical... Read More… Kate Clark Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only way they know how A dismal future for augmented reality businesses, VC subsidized vending machines and more this week in startup news. Read More… Connie Loizos Served a summons via tweet? It just happened to one allegedly elusive VC Jonathan Teo, long a Bay Area venture capitalist, might be regretting having a Twitter account tonight. The reason: it was used to serve a summons to Teo by the law... Read More… Greg Kumparak Disney's Star Wars Land could open in June, says CEO Bob Iger We know Disney's Star Wars Land (or "Galaxy's Edge," if we're being formal) is opening sometime in summer 2019. But that's about as exact as anyone at Disney would get.... Read More… Devin Coldewey Elon Musk angles to keep his ex and '420' Twitter drama out of lawsuit Tesla CEO Elon Musk is looking to keep his ex-girlfriend Grimes and alleged acquaintance Azealia Banks out of the official record of a lawsuit concerning his "420" "joke" that brought... Read More… Jonathan Shieber Another day, another reversal in the stock market Signs that the Federal Reserve could hold off on further interest rate hikes coupled with a booming jobs report sent stocks on Wall Street surging to close a volatile first... Read More… Devin Coldewey Swarms of tiny satellites could act like one giant space telescope It won't be long before the James Webb Space Telescope is launched, an enormous and complex feat of engineering — but all one piece. That's a good thing for now,... Read More… Jonathan Shieber Up to $818 million deal between J&J and Locus Biosciences points to a new path for CRISPR therapies The up to $818 million deal between Locus Biosciences and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a division of Johnson & Johnson) that was announced yesterday points toward a new path for CRISPR gene... Read More… Lucas Matney More than 100 million Alexa devices have been sold More than 100 million devices with Amazon's Alexa assistant pre-installed have been sold, the company said Friday. The new metric, revealed by Amazon devices SVP Dave Limp in an interview... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Web Developer/Webmaster at IBISWorld (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Email Marketing Manager at Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, IL) Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University (Geneva, NY, USA) Senior Full Stack Developer at AJ Madison (Brooklyn, NY, USA) Information Security Analyst at Los Angeles Community College District (Los Angeles, CA, 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 Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Unsubscribe © 2019 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107