Top Stories of the Day // May 9, 2016

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Lending Club shares are crashing after its CEO resigns | This chat bot pretends to be you so you can keep up with your friends | AlexaSite wins the Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize | Opera brings its free VPN service to iOS with a new app, Opera VPN | Zomato defends itself after HSBC says its valuation is only half a unicorn | theSkimm on how to rapidly grow an audience of engaged millennials | John McAfee's first move as a new CEO is to rename the company after himself |

DAILY MONDAY, MAY 9 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Matthew Lynley Lending Club shares are crashing after its CEO resigns Lending Club shares are down more than 25% — shaving off hundreds of millions of dollars off the company’s roughly $2.5 billion market cap —... Read More… Jon Russell This chat bot pretends to be you so you can keep up with your friends Too busy to keep up with your friends? There's a chat bot for that. Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Visa is awarding $150k to startups. Apply today. Visa wants startups to solve 3 business challenges. Each winner will receive $50k for a pilot. Submit your proposal today (deadline May 26). Learn More… Romain Dillet AlexaSite wins the Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize It's been a long night at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. But this time, you couldn't see anyone waiting for a boat. Instead, the Cruise Terminal hosted a very... Read More… Sarah Perez Opera brings its free VPN service to iOS with a new app, Opera VPN Following the launch of a built-in VPN service in its web browser last month, Opera this morning debuted a free and unlimited mobile VPN app for iOS devices.... Read More… Catherine Shu Zomato defends itself after HSBC says its valuation is only half a unicorn In another sign of the challenges facing food delivery startups in India, HSBC said in a recent report that it believes Zomato's valuation is $500... Read More… Sarah Buhr theSkimm on how to rapidly grow an audience of engaged millennials theSkimm founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin came onstage at Disrupt NYC 2016 today to tell us how to capture one of the most coveted audiences in media... Read More… Fitz Tepper John McAfee's first move as a new CEO is to rename the company after himself Some exciting news from the John McAfee camp today: America's favorite (and most entertaining) cybersecurity expert has a new gig! MGT Capital Investments, a... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Product Designer @ Lantern at Lantern (San Francisco, CA, United States) IT Support Engineer at Reasoning Mind ( Houston, Texas, United States, 77057 ) R&D Engineer at Mindmaps Reseach Ltd (London, United Kingdom) Visualisation Engineer at Mindmaps Reseach Ltd (London, United Kingdom) Cluster Engineer at Mindmaps Reseach Ltd (London, United Kingdom) 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service