Top Stories of the Day // December 9, 2015

Hands On With Apple’s $99 Smart Battery Case | Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones | Uber’s Testing A New Mass Transit Alternative | And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 Is… Jukedeck | Uber Suspends Its Auto-Rickshaw Service In India | Four Billion Swipes Later, Bumble Comes To Android | Review: Google’s High-End Pixel C Tablet |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak Hands On With Apple’s $99 Smart Battery Case In a fairly uncharacteristic move, Apple launched a new product today with little to no fanfare. Called the Smart Battery Case, it’s a $99 wrap for the... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Mozilla Will Stop Developing And Selling Firefox OS Smartphones Farewell Firefox OS smartphones. Mozilla today announced an end to its smartphone experiment, and said that it would stop developing and selling Firefox OS... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT The 5 Key Mobile Trends for 2016. Mobile is set to have a revolutionary impact on almost every consumer-facing business out there in 2016. Are you ready? This guide can help. Learn More… Megan Rose Dickey Uber’s Testing A New Mass Transit Alternative Uber is gearing up to pilot a new ride-sharing service in Seattle called uberHOP, in an attempt to get “more butts into the backseats of fewer... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Apple Debuts Its Own Smart Battery Case Dropbox kills Mailbox and Carousel, Uber is approved as a fully legal entity in Jakarta, Facebook shuts down Creative Labs R&D arm, Jeff Bezos reserves a seat for Donald Trump on the Blue Origin rocket. Watch Now Romain Dillet And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 Is… Jukedeck It's been a tough fight, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, we hand-picked the 15 greatest companies from Europe and beyond so that they could... Read More… Catherine Shu Uber Suspends Its Auto-Rickshaw Service In India Uber has suspended its auto-rickshaw service in Delhi. Called UberAUTO, the feature represented one of the car-hailing app's attempts to localize to the... Read More… Fitz Tepper Four Billion Swipes Later, Bumble Comes To Android Bumble, the popular mobile dating app where girls have to make the first move, has finally dropped its long-requested Android version. The Texas-based company... Read More… Frederic Lardinois Review: Google’s High-End Pixel C Tablet Until now, the Pixel brand was all about Chrome OS laptops. But in September, the company surprised us all when it announced its Surface competitor, the... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Systems Analyst II, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic Posted: December 9 DevOps Director, SmartBear Posted: December 7 Senior UX/UI Designer, Priceline . com Posted: December 7 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