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Top Stories of the Day // March 26, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 26, 2013

You're Doing It Wrong, BlackBerry

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently confirmed with CNET that the company would launch a midtier device yet this year and an "exciting" new flagship device... read more

Fitocracy's 1M Users, Including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Are More Engaged Than Any Other Social Network Besides Facebook

As quantified self devices and services come into their own, gamified social fitness tracker Fitocracy has found itself smack dab in the middle of a movement.... read more

Internet Borked? The Amazing Jellybean Resets It All In The Right Order With One Button Press (Or Over Bluetooth)

A few years ago, I received a panicked phone call from a friend I hadn't heard from in months. His Internet connection was on the fritz, and he had a huge... read more

Fingerprints Instead Of Credit Cards? YC-Backed PayTango Aims To Make Payments Work Through Biometrics

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Google Launches "Full Value Of Mobile" Calculator To Help Businesses Measure Online And Offline Impact Of Mobile Marketing

The market for mobile advertising is forecast to reach $11.4 billion this year on the back of explosive growth in smartphones and tablets, but companies like... read more

Pocket Introduces Publisher Tools And Analytics To Extend Content Life With Its 8.5M-Strong Audience

Pocket, the save-for-later service that evolved from ReadItLater, is introducing new publisher tools today, including a way to see how content saved to the... read more

Yelp Announces A New 'Revenue Estimator' For Small Businesses

Yelp is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses.... read more

Apple Patents Battery-Saving Multi-Touch Displays That Don't Need To Be Active To Work

Apple was granted a patent Tuesday by the USPTO that describes a system for implementing multi-touch in a mobile device even when there the display itself isn't... read more

Bug Kills Facebook Comments And Like Counts Across The Web, But Fix Will Restore Them Soon

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments... read more

Crowd Surfing The Zombie Apocalypse, Or Why Spotify's TV Ad Is So Creepy We Made A Parody

I love you Spotify, but you're freaking me out. Today you showed off your first television commercial. It's supposed to introduce the mainstream world to the... read more

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