Top Stories of the Day // September 18, 2015

A Day After iOS 9’s Launch, Ad Blockers Top The App Store | Try To Land The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Yourself | Uber’s Latest Justification For Surge Pricing | Recruiting Startup Hired Has A New CEO | Clover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M | Chat.Center Reports Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking Growth | Facebook’s Not-Quite-A-Dislike Button Could Just Be Emoji |

DAILY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Perez A Day After iOS 9’s Launch, Ad Blockers Top The App Store One of the better features in this week’s newly released version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9, is the ability for users to block ads on... Read More… Drew Olanoff Try To Land The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Yourself Elon Musk's SpaceX is trying to launch a spacecraft and have the rockets return safely to Earth...specifically on a floating barge. As it turns out, it's not... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Sign Up For Your Last Chance To Buy 2-For-1 Tickets To Disrupt London With this year's Disrupt, we're releasing a few batches of two-for-one general admission tickets to the show, and the final opportunity is coming soon. Sign up here! Learn More… Megan Rose Dickey Uber’s Latest Justification For Surge Pricing Uber would not be a reliable service if it didn’t implement surge pricing. Well, at least that’s what Uber is suggesting in its recent case study on... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT iOS 9-Enabled Ad Blocking Apps Are A Huge Hit Amazon’s Fire HD tablet line is available for pre-order, Facebook introduces Signal to help journalists find and embed content, the NFL teams up with Snapchat for exclusive content, researchers break down what is behind Uber’s price surges. Watch Now Anthony Ha Recruiting Startup Hired Has A New CEO There's been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired: President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become... Read More… Matthew Lynley Clover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M Clover Health, an insurance startup based out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcare for senior citizens from... Read More… John Biggs Chat.Center Reports Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking Growth Chat.Center, a project by friend of TechCrunch Keith Teare, has successfully navigated the shoals of freemium and is now steaming steadily through solid growth.... Read More… Josh Constine Facebook’s Not-Quite-A-Dislike Button Could Just Be Emoji How do you convey empathy concisely and unambiguously across languages?  The Dislike button has been the most requested feature from Facebook’s users... 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