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 | 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 | |  | Jonathan Shieber | |  | 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 | | | |  | Gregory Ferenstein | |  | 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 | |  | 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 | |  | 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 | | |
 | It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together... read more | |  | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — bask... read more | |  | 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. | | |
