MPAA takes down Popcorn Time fork, Tesla news, & more

Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues | MPAA Takes Down Pirating Group And Popcorn Time Fork | Airbnb, Proposition F And The Shared Hypocrisy Of Bay Area Housing | Uber Tempts Commuters To Drop The Keys With Pre-Priced Out-Of-Town Carpools | Tesla Will Unveil Its Most Affordable Car To Date In March 2016 | GoPro Sued Over Hero4 Session Design | Tesla Hires Google VP Of Finance Jason Wheeler As New CFO |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Megan Rose Dickey Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, one of the few black engineers in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the... Read More… Matt Burns MPAA Takes Down Pirating Group And Popcorn Time Fork There are corks popping around the MPAA offices today. The American trade organization is claiming responsibility for shutting down several pirating services... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Reminder: Get Your Discounted Student Tickets To Disrupt London Disrupt London 2015 is fast approaching, and we still have some student tickets available for the show available at the hugely discounted price of just £100 plus VAT. those who graduated in the spring of 2015 (May-June 2015) can get in on the action. To get your discounted Disrupt student tickets, just send an email to students@techcrunch.com for more info. Learn More… Kim-Mai Cutler Airbnb, Proposition F And The Shared Hypocrisy Of Bay Area Housing In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That's no different with Airbnb and Proposition F,... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Activision Blizzard Buys King Digital For $5.9B Eric Schmidt says Chrome OS is not being phased out, Plex rolls out their Apple TV app, Google taught their self-driving cars to better identify children on the road over Halloween, Pandora announces that they will be the “official streaming partner” for the second season of acclaimed podcast “Serial”. Watch Now Josh Constine Uber Tempts Commuters To Drop The Keys With Pre-Priced Out-Of-Town Carpools Why drive yourself when it might be cheaper to coast to work in the back of an Uber? Today Uber launched the beta of a new flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL... Read More… Greg Kumparak Tesla Will Unveil Its Most Affordable Car To Date In March 2016 Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned that the company intended to show off the Model 3 — its most affordable car to date by far, at $35,000 — in... Read More… Matt Burns GoPro Sued Over Hero4 Session Design The GoPro Hero4 Session looks like the Polaroid Cube. It’s hard to deny otherwise. In the world of action cameras, these two cameras look like twins... Read More… Drew Olanoff Tesla Hires Google VP Of Finance Jason Wheeler As New CFO After earnings today, Tesla made a couple of executive announcements. First, it has named a new CFO, Jason Wheeler. Wheeler spent 13 years at Google as its VP... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Engineer - Eat24 Mobile Developer (iOS/Android), Yelp Posted: November 3 Lead JavaScript Engineer , Flux Posted: November 3 FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND WEB DEVELOPER, South Park Digital Studios Posted: November 3 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month 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 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service