| ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bg_white-squares.png) ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/whatsapp-down.jpg?w=152&h=168&crop=1) | Josh Constine WhatsApp is currently experiencing an outage. Users around the world are reporting that they haven't been able to send messages for about two hours, and... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/235315669_8a80629cfc_z.jpg?w=152&h=168&crop=1) | Jonathan Shieber | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/screen-shot-2014-02-20-at-3-24-05-pm.png?w=152&h=168&crop=1) | Nir Eyal Wednesday was my birthday. It should have been a great day. Then I heard the news. WhatsApp had been purchased by Facebook for $19 billion. When I read about... read more | | | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/3248283617_c23445ea31_z.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Gregory Ferenstein | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/health-care.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Beth Seidenberg, M.D. Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, the American healthcare system in 2014 has entered a period of titanic change. The process will be messy and disruptive –... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/p1020114.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Ingrid Lunden Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft kicked off the action with a step that points to the company's ambitions to continue to press ahead with... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/normandy.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Ingrid Lunden Microsoft is in the advanced stages of closing its acquisition of Nokia's handset business, but in the meantime Nokia is reportedly working on Android devices.... read more | | |
![](http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10362649/518132410_41_1279_727.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/gg-test-pattern-sepia3.jpg?w=150?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — bask... read more | | ![](http://pthumbnails.5min.com/10362472/518123555_33_1279_727.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, VegasTechFund’s Jen McCabe joined us in the studio to talk hardware,... read more | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |