| Backpage faces criminal charges, the new Gmail might include self-destructing emails and Trump escalates his feud with Amazon. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for April 13, 2018. 1. Backpage pleads guilty to sex trafficking, CEO faces up to 5 years for money laundering Both the company and CEO Carl Ferrer have pled guilty to charges of sex trafficking and money laundering, respectively, according to the Texas Attorney General's office. The federal government seized the site, which believed to be the main online platform of the sex trade, last week. Backpage could still face additional charges in other jurisdictions. 
2. After bashing Amazon deals, Trump orders investigation of U.S. Postal Service Trump must really hate Jeff Bezos. 3. Google is testing self-destructing emails in new Gmail We've already written about some of the new features in the upcoming redesign of Gmail, but our tipster seems to have found something new: Emails that become unreadable after a certain period of time. 4. Comcast will start bundling Netflix into its cable subscriptions Comcast already added Netflix to its X1 interface in 2016, but apparently this was successful enough to convince the companies to work together more closely. 5. Lyft breaks down how much drivers can make If you include time spent online, waiting for rides, Lyft says drivers average $18.83 per hour nationwide. 6. Twitter replaces its gun emoji with a water gun This should make it harder (or at least sillier-looking) for online abusers to troll their victims. 7. Here are the 12 startups in Techstars NYC's Winter 2018 class Everything from cryptocurrency to kitchen sanitation to gene sequencing. | 
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