Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // April 17, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 17, 2013

Gmail, Google Drive And Docs Currently Experiencing Partial Outage

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Foxconn Becomes Largest Microsoft Patent Licensee, Pays Royalty Per Android And Chrome Device

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Google Ventures-Backed Messaging Startup, Just.me, Launches iOS App In 155 Countries/32 Languages, Aiming To Rattle Social's Cage

Following its beta launch at the end of January, just.me, the mobile messaging startup from Keith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubator... read more

Jolla Confirms It Will Show Its Debut Handset Next Month & Kick Off "Pre-Sales Campaign" To Take Payments From Fans Ahead Of 2H Launch

Jolla, the Finnish startup comprised of ex-Nokians who left to keep the MeeGo fire burning, has confirmed it will be showing off its first handset next month,... read more

Amazon Expands Its Android Appstore To Nearly 200 Countries; It's All About Scale

Amazon today took a big step forward in its strategy to take its app distribution business -- and its Kindle Fire hardware business -- global: it announced that... read more

Poncho, For Those Who Can't Be Bothered To Open A Weather App

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Nexus Tablet Sales Estimate Shows The Nexus 10 Is Probably Not A Popular Option

Nexus tablet device sales remain a bit nebulous, since Google doesn't give out specific numbers around them. But industry watchers, and Benedict Evans in... read more

Facebook Tests Its First Graph Search Ads, But They Aren't Targeted To Your Queries

Investors hope Facebook will eventually sell lucrative demand-fulfillment search ads, but it's starting conservatively. Today it begins a small test of its... read more

Confirmed: Red-Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Raised $130M, Made $179M Last Quarter

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Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs Funds "Nanostraws" And A Siri-Like Natural Language Processing Startup

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