Thursday, January 31, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // January 31, 2013

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Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For Legacy And Modern Versions Of IE

Even though Microsoft itself would prefer to change this, many users still rely on older versions of Internet Explorer. For developers, this means spending... read more

Read What Facebook's Sandberg Calls Maybe 'The Most important Document Ever To Come Out Of The Valley'

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Facebook Tries Letting You Share Emoticons Of Exactly What You're Feeling, Reading Or Eating

Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you select "what are you doing?", and share an emoticon... read more

How Two Undergraduates Went From Forever Alone To Thousands In Sales

A team of undergraduates at Queens College in New York led by Matt Sconce had a semi-bright idea: they'd make Forever Alone statuettes.... read more

The Surprising iOS Games That Saw The Most Active Usage In The U.S. Last Month

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Hold The Phone, I Want My Dick Tracy Watch

A few days ago, I read Nilay Patel's review of the Pebble smartwatch for The Verge. Like many others, I bought a Pebble on Kickstarter, and I can't wait to... read more

Google Adds New Notification Center To Chrome Code, Could Grow Into Full Google Now Desktop Support

Google Now is probably one of my favorite things about Android, which is why it's great news that a new Chromium build includes a notification center, which,... read more

Mark Cuban's Awesome Justification For Endowing A Chair To 'Eliminate Stupid Patents'

Outspoken billionaire, Mark Cuban, is fed up with America's patent system. "Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses. I have had multiple small companies i... read more

Apple Patents Crowdsourced, Peer-To-Peer Mobile Banking That Could Use iTunes To Provide Cash On Demand

Today the USPTO published an Apple patent application that ventures a little farther afield than most, and describes a mobile banking concept that is truly... read more

Twitter Currently Experiencing Widespread, Rolling Service Outage

Twitter is currently experiencing a widespread service outage that appears to be intermittent, according to our checks with the web client, third-party apps and... read more

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // January 30, 2013

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Live From RIM's BB10/Z10 Media Event In NYC

After what feels like years of decline, CEO shakeups, and launch after launch of the same old stuff, RIM is turning a new maple leaf.... read more

Leaked Photo Gallery Shows The White Nexus 4 In All Its Glory

The latest Google phone, LG's Nexus 4, is as good as it gets in the land of Android (or "Landroid," if you will). However, the handset has been plagued with... read more

Why Did $AAPL Stock Go Down After Beating Earnings Estimates And $AMZN Stock Go Up After Missing?

The moves in different directions for Amazon and Apple have been about expectations and guidance. Wall Street has higher expectations for Apple and... read more

The Blackberry Z10 Is A Solid First Offering For BB10 Hardware, But The App Gap Looms Large

BlackBerry''s big day is here, and so is the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone. A company's hopes are resting on this bold (no pun intended) new device, and to... read more

The Keyboard Lives On As BlackBerry Unboxes BB10-Based Touch-Qwerty Hybrid Q10

The BlackBerry keyboard is dead, long live the BlackBerry keyboard. Despite the full throttle touchscreen focus of its new mobile platform, BlackBerry 10, RIM... read more

RIM Drops Research In Motion And Rebrands As BlackBerry, Trading As BBRY

No more RIM-shots allowed if you are among those who like to joke about the trials and tribulations of the Canadian handset manufacturer. Today the company said... read more

Google Puts The Nexus 4 Back On Sale In UK, France And Spain

Google yesterday started to offer the Nexus 4 once again in the Google Play stores in the U.S., Canada and Germany, and today it's started to roll it out to... read more

Michael Dell Seeking Majority Control Of Dell Inc., Contributing As Much As $1 Billion Of His Own Personal Funds

Michael Dell is trying to get control of Dell, Inc. with as much as $1 billion of his own personal funds. His goal: shift the company's focus from PC sales to a... read more

Wonder No More. Yandex Pulls Social Discovery App After Facebook Closes Door On Graph API Use + Says It's A Competing Search Engine

Some closure on the story of how Yandex -- the Russian search giant -- built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and... read more

Twitch Gets Embedded In Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2, Providing Instant Broadcasting Of User Gameplay

E-sports streaming provider Twitch is getting a huge validation of its platform from one of the biggest video game franchises out there. Today the company is... read more

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30 'bite-sized' Writing Tips From 30 Great Bloggers

Hey, it's Hector,
 
Let's get back to making you an epic blogger..
 
... I think a great way to do that is to learn from the 
 
Inside this post you'll find writing advice from Chris Brogan, 
Lisa Irby, Sonia Simone, Chris Garrett, and many more.
 
It's probably the best round up post you'll read all year.
 
Not only because I put it together =) ... but because they 
share awesome ideas.
 
Go check it out and lemme know which one is your favorite.
 
(..I really like #23..)
 
Tell me which one you're going to start using right now...
 
I'll see you in the comments. Here's that link again:
 
 
See ya next time, 
Hector
 
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P.S. I know I haven't said much about how all this epic
writing turns into sales.
 
don't worry.. it's something I address later on. I'll tell you 
about the "3-piece-combo" that creates the perfect buying 
scenario.  
 
you'll find that in my next email.. 
 
P.P.S. Writer's Bootcamp - Tuesday, Feb 5th, 2013.. 
 
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // January 29, 2013

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Apple Debuts 128GB Fourth Generation Retina iPad, $799 For Wi-Fi, $929 For Wi-Fi + Cellular, On Sale Feb. 5

Rumors turned out to be correct, and Apple has launched a 128GB version of the fourth generation iPad with Retina Display. The 128GB version comes in both Wi-Fi... read more

Jody Sherman, Ecomom Founder And Longtime Web Entrepreneur, Has Died

Jody Sherman, a longtime web entrepreneur most recently known as the co-founder and CEO of healthy kids products site Ecomom, has passed away. He was 47.... read more

We'll Publish Your Story If CNET Won't

Editorial independence is kind of a polemic at TechCrunch. When our corporate parent, a sister or an advertiser might have an issue with a story, we write it... read more

We're *This Close* To An iPhone 5 Jailbreak - And It May Arrive As Soon As Sunday

A jailbreak for the iPhone 5 is, after all this time, about to become a reality. The talented hackers, who spend their days searching through iOS code in the... read more

Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Arrives (Half A Decade Too Late)

In 2006, Google announced its first public release of what later became Google Docs, today known as Google Drive. It's 2013, and only now does it feel like... read more

Realtime Political Fact-Checking Becomes A Reality With WaPo's 'Truth Teller'

We are coming closer to a reality where no politician can ever spread well-known lies. Today, exclusively with TechCrunch, The Washington Post has launched a... read more

XBMC 12 Frodo Arrives, Bringing Raspberry Pi And Android Versions, AirPlay Audio For Windows And 64bit OS X Support

XBMC launched version 12.0 (codenamed Frodo) of its media center software today, bringing a ton of new features and opening up support to new platforms. As a... read more

Amazon Focuses On Cloud Video With Elastic Transcoder Services, Price-Busting + Available Everywhere

Another move today from Amazon that speaks to its growing presence in content delivery and enterprise services, done at competition-beating prices: today the... read more

WebEx Co-Founder Launches Moxtra, A Fresh Take On Collaboration And Collection For iPad And Web

A couple of weeks ago I reported about the upcoming launch of Moxtra, a new tool from a group including many former WebEx folks that was starting a private beta... read more

UPDATED: Facebook Hit By Extended Outage In Several Countries

Facebook is back online for everyone, according to Downrightnow and the company. A spokesperson said:... read more

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