Top Stories of the Day // April 12, 2016

Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane burns out and sells assets | Get ready for the new Kindle | New Box product will let you choose storage from IBM and AWS | Alibaba pours a total of $1B into Southeast Asia e-commerce platform Lazada | Review: Boosted Board Dual+ flourishes in the streets of NYC | Facebook adds Dropbox support and video Chat Heads to Messenger | Watch Facebook’s F8 conference here, plus what to expect |

DAILY TUESDAY, APRIL 12 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane burns out and sells assets “Why do you need money from me when you have every great investor on earth?” That’s the question that caused Backplane to buckle under the... Read More… Romain Dillet Get ready for the new Kindle Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos teased a new Kindle device for this week. While the company has yet to make an official announcement about the new ereader, Tmall.com's... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT How Top Startups Find The World's Most Talented Developers and Designers Toptal makes hiring easy by connecting you with elite developers and designers, hand-picked to match your needs. Hire on-demand, risk-free. Learn More… Ron Miller New Box product will let you choose storage from IBM and AWS For several years, Box CEO Aaron Levie has been trying to get people to understand his company is not in the storage business. To drive that point home... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Daily Mail Preps Yahoo Bid Daily Mail might bid for Yahoo, Lytro launches camera for film industry, VC firms flush with cash, new Kindle is coming, no pay gap at Facebook Watch Now Catherine Shu Alibaba pours a total of $1B into Southeast Asia e-commerce platform Lazada Alibaba just took a big step in its Southeast Asian expansion journey. The company said today that it has pumped a total investment of about $1 billion into... Read More… Stefan Etienne Review: Boosted Board Dual+ flourishes in the streets of NYC I’m not the only one who thinks this way about riding a piece of bamboo with wheels and a motor. YouTube personality and entrepreneur Casey Neistat... Read More… Devin Coldewey Facebook adds Dropbox support and video Chat Heads to Messenger Good news, everyone. Facebook Messenger has two new features! No sense saving them for below the fold: it's Dropbox integration and live video Chat Heads. It's... Read More… Josh Constine Watch Facebook’s F8 conference here, plus what to expect Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Full-Stack Mobile Game Developer at Disruptor Beam (Framingham, MA, United States) DevOps Engineer at Hotjar (Anywhere in Europe) Full Stack Developers at Hotjar (Anywhere in Europe) Sr Process Automation Analyst - Macro Guru at Target Corporation (Minneapolis, MN, United States) Senior Java Software Engineer at iCrossing (Santa Monica, CA, United States) 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