Top Stories of the Day // December 15, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Dec 15, 2013 John Biggs Google Buys Boston Dynamics, Creator Of Big Dog Google announced that they've acquired Boston Dynamics, creators of quad- and bi-pedal robots like Big Dog and PETMAN. This is Google's eighth robotics... read more John Biggs Why Does Google Need So Many Robots? To Jump From The Web To The Real World Why does Google need robots? Because it already rules your pocket. The mobile market, except for the slow rise of wearables, is saturated. There are millions of... read more Leena Rao As Software Eats The World, Non-Tech Corporations Are Eating Startups read more Alex Wilhelm iOS Rules The Corporate Mobile Market As Android And Windows Scrap For Second Place read more Alex Wilhelm The Government Really Isn’t Sure What Snowden Took read more Mark Lennon CrunchBase Reveals: The Average Successful Startup Raises $41M, Exits at $242.9M The CrunchBase dataset has now captured more venture exits than ever, so we decided to take a closer look at what successful startups can tell us about venture... read more Klint Finley Code Literacy Doesn’t Need To Come At The Expense Of Other Skills read more TOP VIDEOS CrunchWeek: Instagram Debuts Messaging, Twitter's Blocking Debacle, Snapchat Banks $50M The weather outside is frightful, but CrunchWeek is so delightful. So since we've no place to go, why don't you... read more Gillmor Gang: Brain Chemistry The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — take the edge off of a slow week... read more Ask A VC: DFJ's Josh Stein On What He Looks For In Early-Stage Investing In this week's episode of Ask A VC, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein joined us in the studio to talk about his... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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