Top Stories of the Day // September 16, 2015

Snapchat Starts Charging $0.99 For 3 Replays, Adds Face Effect “Lenses” | Facebook Is Building An Empathy Button, Not “Dislike”. Here’s How It Could Work | Snapchat Acquires Looksery To Power Its Animated Lenses | 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School | Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug | The Best Things Come In Threes | Bill Gurley On Some High-Flying Startups and Their Economics: It’s the “Same Sh_t” as in ’99 |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine Snapchat Starts Charging $0.99 For 3 Replays, Adds Face Effect “Lenses” Snapchat is debuting its first in-app purchase. It’s a new way for it to make money by letting users purchase three extra Replays of Snaps they just... Read More… Josh Constine Facebook Is Building An Empathy Button, Not “Dislike”. Here’s How It Could Work The Dislike button has long been the most requested feature from Facebook users. So when Mark Zuckerberg today said in a public Q&A that the company was... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Snoop Dogg Is Rollin' Down The Street To TechCrunch Disrupt SF Snoop will be joining us onstage for a fireside chat with Ted Chung, who is also the founder of Cashmere Agency and co-managing member of Snoop's VC fund called Casa Verde Capital. One more week to Disrupt SF! Learn More… Josh Constine Snapchat Acquires Looksery To Power Its Animated Lenses Snapchat’s new animated selfie Lenses come courtesy of a new acquisition: Looksery. In a suspicious turn of events, Selfie animation app... Read More… John Biggs 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School A 14-year-old boy in Irving, Texas named Ahmed Mohamed was taken into police custody after he brought a homemade clock to school. The boy, who, according to a... Read More… Matthew Panzarino Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. “We have discovered a bug in... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Brian Wilcove The Best Things Come In Threes The '80s were fun, fabulous and economically stimulating. What brought us Michael Jackson, the Sony Walkman, Star Wars and Pac-Man also ushered in the era of... Read More… Connie Loizos Bill Gurley On Some High-Flying Startups and Their Economics: It’s the “Same Sh_t” as in ’99 Today, at an interview sponsored by the Benchmark-portfolio company Sailthru, legendary VC Bill Gurley appeared on stage with Bloomberg reporter Emily Chang to... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  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