CrunchWeek: Mt.Gox Implodes, GrubHub Seamless $100M IPO, Facebook Kills Email Feature

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There’s a lot to be excited about today: March is coming in like a lion, Mercury is finally out of retrograde, and it’s time for a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings three writers together at the TechCrunch roundtable to talk about the most exciting tech news stories from the past week.

In this episode, Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm and I discuss the implosion and bankruptcy of the Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange, GrubHub Seamless filing to raise $100 million in an initial public offering, and Facebook killing its Facebook.com email feature.

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CrunchWeek: Netflix Earnings, Stripe’s Big Raise, And Snowden’s Live Q&A

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It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most fascinating stories of the past seven days in tech.

In this week’s episode, Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm and I talked about Netflix’s stronger than expected earnings and the company’s stance on net neutrality, payments company Stripe’s new funding round and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s Q&A (and the recent news around the RNC denouncing the NSA’s surveillance tactics).

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CrunchWeek: Google’s Nest Buy, Yahoo Management Changes, And The Threats To Net Neutrality

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It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to chat about the most fascinating stories of the past seven days in tech.

In this week’s episode, Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm and I talked about Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of connected device company Nest, the firing of Yahoo’s COO Henrique De Castro and last week’s news that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC’s Open Internet Order, a blow for net neutrality.

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CrunchWeek: Bitcoin’s Big Crash, The ‘Six Californias’ Plan, Dorsey Gives Back Square Stock

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We might be heading into the height of the holiday season, but tech news has not slowed down just yet! So we had quite a few things to discuss in CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show that brings together three writers to talk about the hottest news stories of the past seven days.

In this episode, Leena Rao, Alex Wilhelm and I talk about the big crash that cut the value of the Bitcoin currency in half (and the latest law enforcement crackdowns on the new Silk Road 2 exchange), the far-out proposal by renowned technology venture capitalist Tim Draper to split California into six pieces and turn Silicon Valley into its own state, and Square founder Jack Dorsey giving back 10 percent of his equity in the company.

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