Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // October 23, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Oct 23, 2012

The Photo-Sharing Wars Aren't Over Yet. Snapchat And Cinemagram Are Quietly Blowing Up.

When Instagram's roughly $750 million sale to Facebook closed, it seemed that the photo-sharing chapter in mobile app history closed. Instagram had definitively... read more

Confirmed: Apple Will Live Stream Today's iPad Mini Event On Web Site, Apple TV

It's been a long while since Apple live streamed its press events. In fact, some people may not even remember a live-streamed Apple event, instead hunting out... read more

Meet Memoto: The Discreet Camera That Records Your Life In 30-Second Intervals

It's inevitable, right? With cameras becoming ever smaller and storage becoming ever cheaper, there will come a day when all of our life's memories are... read more

The 5 Big New Ways Facebook Laid The Groundwork For Making Money During Q3 2012

You probably won't see the revenue bump in Facebook's earnings report today from all its new monetization schemes. But with this quarter's rollout of Gifts,... read more

Which One Of These Do I Have To Spill Water On To Make People Irrationally Start Buying $FB?

Those eighteen words got a founder and I kicked off of the trading floor of the NYSE earlier this evening. Because, as we shuffed out of the Girls Who Code... read more

Nokia Unboxes Cheapest Windows Phone Yet To Fight Android: $199 Lumia 510 Runs WP7.5, Targets India, China First

Nokia has announced its lowest priced Windows Phone to date: the WP7.5 Nokia Lumia 510 replaces the Lumia 610 as the entry level WP handset -- with an estimated... read more

Mobile Payments Startup iZettle Expands Series B Of $31.4 Million, Adds American Express As Newest Investor As It Preps Launch In UK

Today iZettle, one of the several Square-like mobile payments companies in Europe, announced that it was expanding its Series B round of €25 million and... read more

Twitter Is Testing A "Like" And "Star" Button In Lieu Of "Favorite." Isn't The Concept Of "Like" Already Broken?

I've never really been a fan of tapping a "Like" button on Facebook. Mostly because it doesn't always mean that I like something. I use that button as a way to... read more

20 Major Retailers Launch Passbook-Enabled Coupons Via Digital Offers Giant Coupons.com

Apple's Passbook will become even more useful today, thanks to the availability of new Passbook-integrated coupons from several major retailers, including... read more

Samsung Galaxy Note II Will Hit AT&T Stores November 9 For $299, Pre-Orders Begin October 25

AT&T has just announced that the Samsung Galaxy Note II, the next big thing to come out of the South Korean electronics maker, will be available on blue... read more

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