Friday, November 9, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 9, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 9, 2012

You Can't Put Price Tag On A TechCrunch Post

"News is something someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising."   -- Lord Northcliffe... read more

Is There Much Of A Market For A Universal Translator?

Microsoft has an impressive new universal translator demonstration - Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid shows a real time translation of English (voice) to... read more

Reddit CEO Asks Users To Buy Revamped Membership Because Ads Are "One Of The Reasons Digg Failed"

"We could theoretically load up our pages with ads and probably make enough to cover our costs. However, that would significantly degrade the experience of... read more

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Kickstarter: Release Your Inner James Bond With These High-Tech Linear Watches

High-tech watches are, arguably, a dime-a-dozen. But the Division Furtive electro-mechanical watch is something special. Built using a series of Swiss... read more

Airbnb: Our Guests Stay Longer And Spend More Than Hotel Guests, Contributing $56M To The San Francisco Economy

Over the past few years, there's been some question about what effect peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has on the hotel and tourism industry. Now the... read more

Feel The Force: Angry Birds Star Wars Tops U.S. App Store In Record 2.5 Hours, Says Rovio

Rovio's Angry Birds Star Wars mash-up launched yesterday -- and took just 2.5 hours to reach the number one spot in the U.S. App Store. In a blog post... read more

Plan Your Next Trip With Desti, A Conversational iPad App Spun Out From Siri-Creator SRI

There's no shortage of travel guides and services on the web, but in some ways, that can be a curse — travel-planning can become a long process of browsing... read more

European M-Payments Company Payleven Signs Berlin Taxi Firm To Chip & PIN Trial, Claims Chip & PIN "Necessary" For Visa Mobile Payments

Square has Starbucks and now Square-clone Payleven, which is backed by Germany's Rocket Internet incubator/investor, has signed up Berlin taxi association --... read more

Konekt.me Is A LinkedIn For Creative Professionals

There are plenty of resources on the internet to maintain a professional profile. LinkedIn is the most prominent, but none really cater specifically to the... read more

U.K.'s First 4G Network, EE, Delays SIM-Only Tariff Launch For Up To Two Weeks

4G carrier EE, the freshly rebranded parent of Orange and T-Mobile in the U.K. which also owns and operates the U.K.'s first (and currently only) 4G/LTE... read more

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