Top Stories of the Day // February 20, 2016

Tesla Motors Finally Owns Tesla.com | Virgin Galactic Unveils New SpaceShipTwo, The VSS Unity | Donald Trump Says You Should Boycott Apple | Apple Executives Detail Scope Of FBI Request And Company’s Motivations For Not Complying | Salesforce Acquires PredictionIO To Build Up Its Machine Learning Muscle | The Next Billion-Dollar Insurer | We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Cyberpunk Dystopia |

DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Matt Burns Tesla Motors Finally Owns Tesla.com Tesla.com is now in the hands of Elon Musk. Stu Grossman owned the domain since 1992 but it mostly sat unused. As of February 19, 2016, it redirects visitors to... Read More… Emily Calandrelli, Lucas Matney Virgin Galactic Unveils New SpaceShipTwo, The VSS Unity Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today. This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming to Boston On Tuesday Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on February 23, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Get your tickets now! Learn More… Anthony Ha Donald Trump Says You Should Boycott Apple Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below (reportedly shot at a... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Trump Wants to Boycott Apple The Department of Justice says that Apple must comply with FBI’s iphone request, Sling TV adds ABC to broadcast package, smartwatches are now outselling Swiss watches, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has deemed hoverboards “unsafe”. Watch Now Matthew Panzarino Apple Executives Detail Scope Of FBI Request And Company’s Motivations For Not Complying In a call with reporters today, Apple executives spoke in response to a motion the Justice Department filed today to force Apple to comply with a request from... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Salesforce Acquires PredictionIO To Build Up Its Machine Learning Muscle Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its technology in machine learning and big data analytics: the company has acquired PredictionIO, a startup... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Jay Farber The Next Billion-Dollar Insurer Venture capital-backed insurance success stories have risen at a regular drumbeat over the last few years: 2011 brought the billion-dollar Esurance acquisition,... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Jon Evans We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Cyberpunk Dystopia Apple will lose this battle with the US government. Maybe not this year, or next, but soon enough, and for the rest of our lives. It is folly to pretend... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Product Manager, Liftopia Posted: February 19 Software Engineer, Android, Location Labs Posted: February 19 IoT Security Positions, Canary Posted: February 19 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service