Top Stories of the Day // November 30, 2015

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11 Actual “Rooms” For Rent In SF That Are More Than Your Midwestern Mortgage | Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design | Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Join Forces To Invest in Clean Energy Technology | Li-Fi Probably Won’t Be The New Wi-Fi For Most People | The End Of The Startup Gold Rush, Absurd Burn Rates And Tourist VCs | The True Impact Of The Snapchat Writedown For Entrepreneurs | Kobe Bryant Announces NBA Retirement Over Twitter And Facebook |

DAILY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Buhr 11 Actual “Rooms” For Rent In SF That Are More Than Your Midwestern Mortgage Let’s be honest, every apartment for rent in San Francisco is more than the average Midwestern mortgage. An ordinary 35-44-year-old homeowner in the U.S.... Read More… Drew Olanoff, Frederic Lardinois Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design Amazon delivered a lovely update on its ‘Prime Air’ project today — almost exactly two years after it showed the first iteration of its... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Announcing The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards This year, the Crunchies will be held at a new venue, the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, at 8:00pm on February 8th, 2016. Head over to the show page and start nominating your favorite candidates for each category. Nominations will close on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. We'll see you at the Crunchies! Learn More… Catherine Shu Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates Join Forces To Invest in Clean Energy Technology The founders of Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to solve climate change. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have... Read More… Nitish Kulkarni Li-Fi Probably Won’t Be The New Wi-Fi For Most People Long restricted to the academic domain, Li-Fi, a light-based data delivery method is suddenly getting all sorts of attention. An Estonian startup Velmenni... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Scott Maxwell The End Of The Startup Gold Rush, Absurd Burn Rates And Tourist VCs In 15 years as a venture capitalist, I've seen just about every market condition you can imagine. I started at Insight Venture Partners in 2000 at a time when... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Aziz Gilani The True Impact Of The Snapchat Writedown For Entrepreneurs Writing down unicorns benefits everyone. Read More… Drew Olanoff Kobe Bryant Announces NBA Retirement Over Twitter And Facebook *Cue the old man music* In my day, the best sports athletes of our time sat in front of a camera with their family by their side when they announced that they... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: CTO Mobile Ad Network, Motive Interactive Posted: November 27 Software Engineer/Developer I, UEC Electronics, LLC Posted: November 26 Advisory Council, The DMZ at Ryerson University Posted: November 25 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