Top Stories of the Day // December 12, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Dec 12, 2013 Jordan Crook Instagram Introduces Instagram Direct Today at a press event in New York, Instagram founder Kevin Systrom has announced that the photo-sharing service is introducing private photo-sharing and... read more Alex Williams Coinbase Raises $25M Led By Andreessen Horowitz To Build Its Bitcoin Wallet And Merchant Services Coinbase has raised $25 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz in the largest funding to date for a company focused on the Bitcoin digital... read more Matthew Panzarino Will Instagram's Messaging ‘Moments’ Be Ephemeral? read more Jordan Crook Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From Coatue Management Amid rumors of a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook and a potential $200 million funding round, turns out that ephemeral messaging sensation Snapchat... read more Darrell Etherington Shopify Raises $100M To Drop The ‘E’ And Become The Commerce Company That Spans On- And Offline Ottawa-based Shopify has already raised a considerable amount of money, especially for a Canadian company, and its Series C round continues that theme: The... read more Josh Constine Facebook Puts Its Web Feed In Motion With Auto-Playing Videos The News Feed is about to get a lot more lively. Just days after pushing its auto-play feature for videos to all mobile users, today we spotted auto-playing... read more Colleen Taylor Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Crosses 1,000 User Pregnancies Now that it's been a little over four months since its public launch, Glow, the fertility app founded by Max Levchin, is finally talking numbers, and they are... read more TOP VIDEOS Hands On With The KnCMiner Jupiter, The Massive BTC Mining Rig That Can Move Markets It's not every day you get to see a machine designed to mint money. KnCMiner is a Stockholm-based hardware company... read more Meet Kubo, The Crowdfunded Electric Cargo Scooter Made By Lit Motors Lit Motors, the electric car startup that launched last year with its first vehicle called the C1, has debuted... read more How Matternet Wants To Bring Drone Delivery To The People Who Need It Most Last week, the media world was abuzz with the news that e-commerce giant Amazon was experimenting with a new program... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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