Top Stories of the Day // March 25, 2016

The top 8 startups from Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2 | Google’s $149 Nik Collection photo editing software is now available for free | Email is dying among mobile’s youngest users | Things are about to get ugly as activist investor wants to take over Yahoo’s entire board | As Silicon Valley chills, Europe’s tech gets hotter | Retro gaming fans rejoice: Atari Vault is on Steam with 100 games | DAILY FRIDAY, MARCH 25 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine [The top 8 startups from Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2] Supersonic planes, food harvesting robots and instant HIV diagnosis were some of the ideas that wowed us on Demo Day 2 for Y Combinator’s Winter 2016... [Read More…] Jon Russell [Google’s $149 Nik Collection photo editing software is now available for free] Good news for amateur and professional photograph enthusiasts. Google has just made its Nik photo editing software available completely free of charge. [Read More…] SPONSORED CONTENT Execs from the IAB and AdBlock Plus will discuss the future of ads at Disrupt NY At Disrupt New York, we’ll have two speakers offering very different perspectives on where things are going. We’ll be joined by Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. We’ll have a separate interview with Till Faida, founder and CEO of Eyeo — the company that’s dead-center in many of these debates, thanks to its product AdBlock Plus. [Learn More…] Sarah Perez [Email is dying among mobile’s youngest users] In case there was any doubt that messaging apps were the future of communication in the mobile-first era, a new study released this morning puts some solid... [Read More…] Romain Dillet [Things are about to get ugly as activist investor wants to take over Yahoo’s entire board] Are you ready for a big fight over Yahoo’s control? Activist investor Starboard Value LP is really unhappy about Yahoo’s current state and wants everyone to... [Read More…] CRUNCH NETWORK | Mattias Ljungman [As Silicon Valley chills, Europe’s tech gets hotter] We are accustomed to hearing that European tech is perpetually in Silicon Valley’s shadow. Now there have been suggestions that the local tech scene is... [Read More…] Haje Jan Kamps [Retro gaming fans rejoice: Atari Vault is on Steam with 100 games] Longing for the days of the sticky floored arcades of your youth and long nights spent with the the Atari 2600, but can't be bothered to dig through your mum's... [Read More…] [Get more stories at techcrunch.comÂ] Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: - [Sr. Database Administrator-MS SQL at GTE Financial (Tampa, FL, United States)] - [POSTGRADUATE / SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SPECIALIST at CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (Fullerton, CA, United States)] - [Full-Stack Engineer @ Blueshift at Blueshift Labs (San Francisco, CA, United States)] - [Head of Programmatic and Ad Operations at Blasting News (Greater London, Regno Unito)] - [VP, Engineering (Fox Sports Digital) at Fox Networks Group (Playa Vista, CA)] [SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD] [Post your tech jobs] and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month [Facebook]  [Twitter]  [Youtube]  [Instagram]  [Flipboard] If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences [click here]. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.  [Privacy Policy]  [Terms of Service]