Top Stories of the Day // April 15, 2017

Uber shares growing financials to distract from negative publicity | Report: UberRush will stop handling restaurant deliveries | Simple is closing some customer bank accounts, and users are mad as hell | Weekly Roundup: Uber’s Hell-ish week, Tesla’s plans for trucking | Alphabet’s Verily offers a more serious take on health monitoring wearables with the Study Watch | Watch the first trailer for ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ | Apple gets permit to test autonomous cars in California |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, APRIL 15 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Alex Wilhelm, Katie Roof Uber shares growing financials to distract from negative publicity Uber, the popular ride-hailing startup, shared a grip of new financial metrics with Bloomberg today. The numbers indicate that the company is still growing at... Read More… Catherine Shu Report: UberRush will stop handling restaurant deliveries Uber plans to close its UberRush courier service to restaurant deliveries, according to a report in Quartz. Instead, restaurants will be encouraged to use... Read More… Ryan Lawler Simple is closing some customer bank accounts, and users are mad as hell Simple, the online banking service that promised to be a better alternative to big banks like Chase or Citibank, is falling short of some users' expectations.... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Extended! Disrupt NY Early Bird Tickets For just one more week we are extending Early Bird ticket rates for Disrupt NY. Early Bird Tickets save you a $1000 before prices increase to general admission rates. Disrupt NY brings together the best and brightest of the startup community for 3 days in Manhattan. Buy your Early bird Tickets today! Learn More Anna Escher Weekly Roundup: Uber’s Hell-ish week, Tesla’s plans for trucking Just as Uber is under fire once again, Lyft confirms a huge new funding round, Elon Musk reveals plans for electric trucks and Apple is diving into secret... Read More… Brian Heater Alphabet’s Verily offers a more serious take on health monitoring wearables with the Study Watch Designed with long-term medical research in mind, the Study Watch has a vastly different set of hardware requirements than your standard smartwatch. The device... Read More… Anthony Ha Watch the first trailer for ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ We're finally going to hear Luke Skywalker's voice again. After making us wait months longer than we did for the first Force Awakens teaser, Disney has... Read More… Romain Dillet Apple gets permit to test autonomous cars in California It's no secret, Apple has been working hard on a self-driving car. Today, the California DMV has released an updated list of companies allowed to test... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Software Engineer-CCC Technology Center (7 Positions) at Butte-Glenn Community College (Oroville, CA, United States) VP of Engineering -- $160,000- $200,000 at Hammer-Corp (San Diego, CA, United States) Manager Dev Operations at The Madison Square Garden Companies (New York, NY, United States) Director Engineering at The Madison Square Garden Companies (New York, NY, United States) Director IT Strategy and Architecture at Sargento Foods Inc. (Plymouth, WI, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser 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 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service