| | Matthew Panzarino | | | John Biggs We are, I believe, in an interstitial zone when it comes to payments. Credit cards are still king - just ask Square - and NFC is just a dream in most countries.... read more | | | Ingrid Lunden Time to chalk another one up for cryptocurrency bitcoin's reputation as a disruptor in the financial world? Today, news comes that Coinbase -- the YC-incubated... read more | | | Matt Burns The PS4 is a lovely gaming kit. It's sleek. Monolithic. And relatively small in comparison to the Xbox One. Sony did its 4th generation console right. iFixit... read more | | | Matthew Panzarino Some Apple Stores have had their point-of-sale systems go down repeatedly today, TechCrunch has learned. There was an extensive outage early Thursday morning... read more | | | Catherine Shu | | | Natasha Lomas Here's another twist on messaging aiming to make digital comms more fun. Toymail is a Wi-Fi connected toy that lets parents talk remotely to their kids via a... read more | | | Location-based messaging has been tried before, and in a world where messages go in streams, go global, and go... read more | | | The two biggest dogs in Silicon Valley are Google and Apple, and according to the writer Fred Vogelstein, they... read more | | | It’s cliché to point out that most overnight successes in technology actually take years of work, yet in... read more | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |