Friday, August 31, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // August 31, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 31, 2012

Facebook To Roll Out Email- and Phone Number-Based Ad Targeting Next Week

Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has... read more

This Is The Best Look At The New iPhone Yet

Ah, the next-gen iPhone. What more can we say? Almost sadly, we already know the screen will be bigger, the connecting port is smaller, and the design will be... read more

Hello Beautiful! Nokia's Windows Phone 8 820/920 PureView Smartphones Leak

Another day, another leak -- this time, a set of new images that purportedly depict Nokia's next set of Lumia smartphones have begun to make the rounds. Coming... read more

Nokia + Microsoft Kick Off $23M AppCampus Incubator: Over $1M Going To 36 Startups

Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps... read more

How Twitter Uses Open Source

Twitter's Chris Aniszcyk gave the keynote this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.... read more

Chomp-Inspired iOS 6 App Store Redesign Could Impact Long Tail Of App Developers

It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way... read more

Smart TVs Fail To Score With Consumers In U.S. And Other Western Markets: GfK

Here's one reason why Apple may not be producing a television with its name blazoned on it in the near term: it doesn't look like people have, so far, shown... read more

ShoutEm Launches Development Platform To Make HTML5 Mobile Apps Look Native

When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and... read more

Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care

Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big,... read more

With $275M In Capital Deployed To Main Street Businesses, On Deck Raises $100M Of Its Own

We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out... read more

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // August 30, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 30, 2012

Is Facebook Testing Out New Newsfeed And Skyscraper Display Ad Units In New Zealand? No, Adware Strikes Again

New Zealand was the first country to get Facebook's new-look Timeline last December. Now the country looks like it may be putting in another special appearance,... read more

Amazon Wants Everyone To Know The Kindle Fire Is Sold Out

New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype.... read more

Galactic Status: Virgin Airlines Offers One Frequent Flier A Trip To Space

Virgin is one of my favorite airlines to fly on — it's kind of like the airline of the future, with interactive displays in every head rest, cool... read more

Could This Be Amazon's New Kindle Fire?

After this morning's news that the Kindle Fire is now sold out, The Verge received a leaked photo of what is purported to be the next Kindle Fire. Two models... read more

Facebook Saturation?: Twitter, Skype, Instagram & Other Apps Downloaded More In July

Based on downloads, Facebook's iPhone app was no longer the most popular mobile social networking app in many Asian countries and elsewhere from July 2011 to... read more

Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card

Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when... read more

In Battle With Amazon, Walmart Unveils Polaris, A Semantic Search Engine For Products

Walmart is today unveiling a new search engine named "Polaris" which now powers Walmart.com, as well as the company's mobile web and mobile apps, and offers a... read more

AT&T Opens A Swanky 10,000 Sq. Ft. Flagship Store In Chi-Town

Today, AT&T opened up its 10,000 square foot flagship retail store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. It's a bit of a beast, with an 18-foot Connect Wall that... read more

Lunar Lander In HTML5: Atari Teams Up With Microsoft To Bring 8 Classic Games To The Browser

Atari is turning 40 this year and with the help of Microsoft and the HTML5 specialists at gskinner.com, it is now bringing eight of its most popular classic... read more

Wolfram Alpha Launches Personal Analytics Reports For Facebook

Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that quietly handles a large number of queries from Apple's Siri, launched a new feature today that allows... read more

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // August 29, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 29, 2012

Another Sign Of A New iPhone? Apple Will Pay You To Recycle Your 4S

Apple is, as usual, remaining tight-lipped about whether it will be releasing any new devices this autumn -- and even if there will be an event scheduled for... read more

Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses, Free Through 2013

Following moves that began last October, when Google began allowing Google Apps users access to Google+, the company announced today several more features which... read more

Meet The Galaxy Note II, Samsung's Most Important Phone Yet

The original Samsung Note was huge -- in both physical size and popularity. Samsung sold over 10 million units of the huge phone, or rather, if you prefer, mini... read more

Sony Takes On The MS Surface, Introduces The Full-Featured VAIO Duo 11 Windows 8 Slide-Out Tablet

It's half-tablet, half-notebook, but all awesome. Sony briefly announced the VAIO Duo 11 at its IFA 2012 press conference in Berlin today. It's a powerhouse,... read more

TrustEgg Allows Anyone To Set Up A Trust For Their Kids

TrustEgg, the Y Combinator-backed startup which will allow anyone to set up a trust for their children without expensive legal fees or detailed financial... read more

Twitter Launches "Twitter Certified Products" — Partners With DataSift, Gnip, HootSuite & Others

Twitter just launched its "Certified Products Program" to highlight "the best products and services to thrive on Twitter." The program is meant to help... read more

Oops! Galaxy Note II Gets Detailed Ahead Of Samsung's Official Announcement

With Sony's big IFA press conference out of the way, Samsung is next in line to show off its new (and oft-rumored) wares. That said, it looks like one of the... read more

WePay Launches Buttons To Allow Any Site To Accept In-Line Payments With Just A Line Of Code

Online payments startup WePay has been on a roll lately. The company is processing hundreds of millions of dollars in payments annually, and adding more than... read more

Dropbox Teams With Vimeo For Direct Video Uploads

Today Dropbox and Vimeo have put their heads together to let Dropbox users upload content directly to Vimeo.... read more

Hundreds Of Websites Go Dark In Jordan In SOPA-Style #BlackoutJo Protest Over Internet Bill [Updated]

Jordan, one of the more moderate of Middle Eastern countries and seen by some as the would-be "Silicon Valley of the Middle East", is today exercising its... read more

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // August 28, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 28, 2012

The Samsung Galaxy S III Is Now Available In Brown, Red, Black And Grey

Every once in a while a press release comes by that overflows with needless bullshit. Like this one from Samsung. The story is described in the headline above:... read more

NPD: Apple Customers Love The Genius Bar, Mostly Because Service Is Free

If you own an Apple product, chances are you've paid a visit to the Genius Bar, the magical place in the back of an Apple store where your broken iThings get... read more

Rackspace Acquires Mailgun, A Y Combinator Startup That Gives App Developers An API For Creating And Managing Online Mailboxes

Rackspace has acquired Mailgun, a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup that has developed an API for creating and managing online email inboxes for apps and... read more

Patent Case Aftermath: Samsung Down By $12B (And Still Slumping) While Apple, Nokia, RIM All Gain

We still have to wait and see how the jury's ruling against Samsung over Apple patents will play out for the company in terms of actual fines, injunctions --... read more

Garmin Announces Thinner, Lighter Garmin 10 GPS Watch

The $129 Garmin 10 is a new GPS watch by Garmin. Designed as a direct competitor to "grab and go" sport watches from Nike and Polar, the new watch offers... read more

The New iPhone Already Has An Android-Powered Clone

Psst. Yeah, you. Wanna buy a new iPhone? No, the new iPhone, the one that's not out yet. It's not important how I got it, are you in or not?... read more

Motorola's Droid RAZR M 4G LTE Gets Detailed Ahead Of Official Unveiling

In case you hadn't heard yet, next week is going to be a busy one for gadget fiends — Amazon's got something brewing on the 6th, while Nokia and Motorola... read more

After Removal By Apple, Privacy App Clueful Returns Via The Web

Back in May, security company Bitdefender launched Clueful, an iPhone app that looked at the other apps on your phone and identified what they were doing with... read more

The Nexus 7 Now Enjoys Prime Advertising Real Estate On Google's Homepage

The iPad might have the bulk of the tablet mind share, but the Nexus 7 has Google.com. The $199 tablet is now advertised on Google's homepage with an... read more

Death To The Restaurant Buzzer: NoWait Raises $2 Million For iOS-Based Waitlisting System

NoWait, a mobile waitlisting management service based in Pittsburgh, is announcing today it has closed on a $2 million Series A round of funding led by... read more

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