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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