Top Stories of the Day // October 12, 2012

	Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Oct 12, 2012 Matt Burns Microsoft To Go All-In With $1.5B Windows 8 Marketing Blitz Windows 8 launches on October 26. It's been said to be Microsoft's most important product launch to date. And Redmond is reportedly prepped to properly support... read more Natasha Lomas Apple Agrees To License Iconic Swiss Federal Railways' Clock Design Used In iOS 6 Late last month Apple was accused of copying the design of the iconic 1940s Swiss Railway Station Clock owned by SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) for the clock... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iPad Mini Event Likely Happening October 23 Apple's iPad mini event was rumored to be happening sometime around October 17, but this week brought no invite. Now, however, there's a very good sign that we... read more Gregory Ferenstein Paul Ryan So Much More Popular Than Biden, Ryan's The Top Reason Users Even Search For The Veep In American politics, incumbents generally have an unfair popularity advantage, by virtue of holding power and the soapbox that comes with it. Not so much is... read more Ingrid Lunden ChangeWave: Forget Maps, iPhone 5 Is Still A Major Attraction With Demand At 'Record Rates'; WP 8 And Nokia Still Challenged So much for all the Maps thunder and Lightning port issues, and what they might mean for sales of the iPhone 5: a new survey published today by 451/ChangeWave... read more Romain Dillet Dennis Crowley: Foursquare Considered Selling, Is The Best Local Search Tool On The Planet Tonight at PandoDaily's PandoMonthly NYC event, Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley shared some thoughts about the service. The New York-based company... read more Natasha Lomas Report: Social TV Market To Be Worth $256.44BN By 2017; Europe Taking Largest Share Now The global social TV market is already a multi-billion dollar industry, with TV giants betting big money on second screen viewing, but the market is set for... read more Natasha Lomas Angry Birds The Particle Physics Board Game: Rovio And CERN Collaborate On Making Learning Quantum Physics Fun Angry Birds-maker Rovio and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are to collaborate on developing "fun learning experiences" aimed at getting... read more Ingrid Lunden ExactTarget Buys Pardot For $95.5M And iGoDigital For $21M As Marketing Solutions Consolidate ExactTarget, the marketing software giant that went public in March, has picked up a pair of smaller companies to build out its portfolio: marketing automation... read more Drew Olanoff Dick Costolo: "The Biggest Misconception About Twitter Is That You Have To Tweet To Use Twitter" During a fireside chat at Federated Media's San Francisco headquarters, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sat down to talk with John Battelle in the warmup for... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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