Top Stories of the Day // December 4, 2015

Zuckerberg Responds To Critics, Explains How He's Spending $45B | Lyft, Didi, Ola And GrabTaxi Partner In Global Tech, Service Alliance To Rival Uber | GoPro Further Muddles Its Product Line With Hero4 Session Price Drop | Apple TV Is The Latest Step In The Disintermediation Of Media | Driving The Wrong Way Down The Highway At 160 MPH | Nokia Closes Its $2.8B Sale Of Here To The Audi, BMW And Daimler Car Consortium | Fitbit, Apple And Xiaomi Are The World’s Top Wearables Vendors, Says IDC |

DAILY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Katie Roof Zuckerberg Responds To Critics, Explains How He's Spending $45B On Tuesday, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a powerful announcement — not only did he reveal the birth of his daughter, Max, but he... Read More… Ingrid Lunden, Sarah Buhr Lyft, Didi, Ola And GrabTaxi Partner In Global Tech, Service Alliance To Rival Uber As Uber ramps up its business globally with yet more money, four of its regional rivals are getting closer to each other in a bid for more scale and service... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Announcing 1st and Future, A Startup Competition From TechCrunch, The NFL And Stanford In little more than three months, the NFL's historic 50th Super Bowl is coming to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Learn More… Matt Burns GoPro Further Muddles Its Product Line With Hero4 Session Price Drop GoPro now sells four different cameras for $299 or less. This comes as the firm drops the price on the new Hero4 Session to $199 -- the price it should have... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Apple Makes Swift Open Source, Developers Rejoice Uber rivals Lyft, Didi Kauidi, Ola, and GrabTaxi join forces to fight Uber, Uber adds color-coded ride feature, Yahoo Messenger is finally a mobile contender, Facebook opens up livestream video to all users and adds a new photo and video collage tool. Watch Now CRUNCH NETWORK | Chris Young Apple TV Is The Latest Step In The Disintermediation Of Media The trend toward direct connections between video content creators and their audiences is well underway, but the new Apple TV could finally push that trend into... Read More… Alex Wilhelm Driving The Wrong Way Down The Highway At 160 MPH A short while ago, TechCrunch piled into a car, and drove at moderate pace to San Jose, just so that we could drive much more quickly. Recently opened on the... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Nokia Closes Its $2.8B Sale Of Here To The Audi, BMW And Daimler Car Consortium One of the bigger makers of maps and location services used in mobile phones and connected cars has now been taken over by a consortium of car makers. Today... Read More… Catherine Shu Fitbit, Apple And Xiaomi Are The World’s Top Wearables Vendors, Says IDC Xiaomi is the world's number three wearables vendor, behind Fitbit and Apple, according to a new report from IDC that looked at shipment volume in the third... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Engineer, Premiere Digital Services Posted: December 3 Platform Software Engineer, Sittercity Posted: December 2 Mid-Level PHP Software Engineer, JobTarget Posted: December 2 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