Top Stories of the Day // October 11, 2015

The White House Backs Down On Phone Encryption | How Do You Value A Company Like Uber? | Against The Singularity | What Los Angeles Is Missing | Kibo iOS App Lets You Hide Messages In Your Messages | TC Makers: Goebel & Company Makes Furniture For An Old-Fashioned Future | #VATMESS Is About To Get Much Messier |

DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Cat Zakrzewski The White House Backs Down On Phone Encryption In a victory for tech firms, the Obama administration will not force firms to breach the security of their products in order to provide information to law... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Aswath Damodaran How Do You Value A Company Like Uber? Each week brings more Uber stories, with some containing good news for those who believe that the company is on a glide path to a $100 billion IPO, and some... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Sign up for Disrupt London Startup Alley Now! Startup Alley is jam-packed with early stage companies showing off their talent and technology to attendees. With different companies exhibiting on both days of the conference. See you in London! Learn More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Jon Evans Against The Singularity Ray Kurzweil's predictions of the Singularity annoy me sufficiently that I once sat down to write a TechCrunch column attacking them. A brief primer:... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Arteen Arabshahi What Los Angeles Is Missing L.A. tech has clearly hit its growth inflection point, but the City of Angels has yet to get its startup wings. Here's the good news: In 2014 alone, we raised... Read More… Natasha Lomas Kibo iOS App Lets You Hide Messages In Your Messages Just when you thought the wonderful world of digital messaging couldn't get any more rich and layered, along comes another app to prove there are more ideas in... Read More… John Biggs TC Makers: Goebel & Company Makes Furniture For An Old-Fashioned Future The folks at Goebel Furniture make amazing wooden furniture the old fashioned way: the create design permutations in CAD/CAM, 3D print demo models, and then... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Hugo Grimston #VATMESS Is About To Get Much Messier Indie developers were rightly up in arms at the recent changes to the place of supply rules for B2C sales -- deftly coined #VATMESS by Twitter wags. The rules... 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