Top Stories of the Day // March 11, 2017

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That time Facebook went too far | Houston, Kalanick and Zuck walk into a headline | Tesla’s Kauai solar storage facility offers a glimpse of the company’s future | Bitcoin drops 15% after the SEC rejects the Winklevoss ETF | Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition | Hulu’s new live TV service scores A&E’s channels, but not Viacom | Weekly Roundup: WikiLeaks strikes again, Google outlines cloud strategy |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, MARCH 11 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Jon Russell That time Facebook went too far Facebook's attempts to clone Snapchat know no limit. The social networking giant is in the enviable position of owning a number of the world's most used... Read More… Jordan Crook Houston, Kalanick and Zuck walk into a headline And a bar called SPiN, where photos of them playing ping-pong have the tech media in a great mood this Friday morning. The reason? At the same time as Houston's... Read More… Darrell Etherington Tesla’s Kauai solar storage facility offers a glimpse of the company’s future Tesla's solar installation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is not just a product launch of the company – it's the first real proof the company's offering up... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Get your Disrupt NY early bird tickets Disrupt NY (May 15-17) is turning out to be one of TechCrunch's best conferences yet. With thousands of attendees, world-class speakers, and great networking opportunities it's going to be the place to be for startup fans. Early Bird tickets are now on sale. Buy yours today! Learn More Fitz Tepper Bitcoin drops 15% after the SEC rejects the Winklevoss ETF The SEC just issued their ruling on the Winkelevoss bitcoin ETF, and it wasn't good news for enthusiasts of the digital currency. Regulators rejected the... Read More… John Mannes Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition On the heels of acquiring data science community Kaggle, Google is launching a machine learning competition of its own for startups. Google is targeting... Read More… Sarah Perez Hulu’s new live TV service scores A&E’s channels, but not Viacom Hulu’s forthcoming live TV streaming service is starting to shape up. Today, the company announced it scored a deal with A&E Networks, which will... Read More… Anna Escher Weekly Roundup: WikiLeaks strikes again, Google outlines cloud strategy This week saw two huge tech funding rounds for Airbnb and Instacart, Google held its Next event in San Francisco to outline its cloud strategy moving forward... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Research Director, Software Development at International Data Group, Inc (Framingham, MA, United States) Design Lead At Athos at Athos (San Francisco, CA, United States) Director of Talent Acquisition @ ThoughtSpot at ThoughtSpot (San Francisco, CA, United States) Member Services Representative at RocketSpace (San Francisco, CA, United States) Senior Software Engineer @ Beautiful.AI at Beautiful.AI (San Francisco, CA, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser 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 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service