Daily Crunch 1/14/20

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 2:30 p.m.

b'Welcome to TechCrunch daily news, a round up of the top tech news of the day. -- Visa acquires Plaid -- Google gets aggressive against cookies -- and a lot of people downloaded Disney+. Here\\u2019s your Daily Crunch for January 14, 2020. First up: Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2 times its final private valuation. You can compare what Plaid does to Stripe \\u2014 but instead of facilitating payments, Plaid helps developers share banking and other financial information more easily.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'