Top Stories of the Day // December 2, 2015

9 Gifts For The Smartest Smart Home | Mark Zuckerberg Is Now A Dad, Pledges To Give Away 99% Of His Shares | The Unofficial Facebook Advanced Search Engine | LinkedIn Launches Revamped Mobile Apps, But Noise Remains A Big Problem | Google Turns Image Search Into Pinterest With New “Collections” Feature | Sequoia Capital's Alfred Lin On Why Uber’s Valuation Is Twice That Of Airbnb’s | Why Israel Will Probably Never Have A Tech Giant And Why That's Not Something To Regret |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Buhr, Greg Kumparak 9 Gifts For The Smartest Smart Home Choose from 16 million shades of color, make grandpa feel more secure by showing him who’s at the door when he’s not even there and get the house... Read More… Matthew Lynley Mark Zuckerberg Is Now A Dad, Pledges To Give Away 99% Of His Shares Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said he and his wife would give away 99 percent of their shares to "advance human potential and promote equality for all... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Need a mobile application in 60 days that drives 50,000 installs per day? Work with the team that's designed and launched some of the top performing mobile applications across iOS, Android and Responsive Web Apps. Learn More… Josh Constine The Unofficial Facebook Advanced Search Engine Facebook doesn’t have an easy-to-use advanced search engine, so one guy built his own. “Search Is Back” lets you use familiar drop-down menus... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Zuckerbergs Pledge 99% of Their Facebook Shares Adobe kills Flash a little more, WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links in its app, Google cuts data up to 70% on Chrome’s Android browser, Instagram filters are becoming popular baby names. Watch Now Jon Russell LinkedIn Launches Revamped Mobile Apps, But Noise Remains A Big Problem LinkedIn, the professional social network that we love to hate, is hoping to entice you into using it more on your phone after it introduced revamped versions... Read More… Sarah Perez Google Turns Image Search Into Pinterest With New “Collections” Feature Watch out, Pinterest, you’ve got new competition. Google has now rolled out a new feature on its search engine that offers users an easy way to save to... Read More… Connie Loizos Sequoia Capital's Alfred Lin On Why Uber’s Valuation Is Twice That Of Airbnb’s Today, at the Post-Seed conference in San Francisco, Alfred Lin, the former COO and CFO of Zappos and now a Sequoia Capital partner, was asked a variety of... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Gal Nachum Why Israel Will Probably Never Have A Tech Giant And Why That's Not Something To Regret For many years, Israelis used to lament that the local tech scene, while considered second only to Silicon Valley and generating many successful startups, has... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Desktop Support Engineer, Daily Mail Posted: December 2 DevOps Engineer, Sittercity Posted: December 1 Entry Level Media Sa, HomeAdvisor Posted: December 1 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 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service