Top Stories of the Day // June 18, 2013

	The countdown is on: 2 days left to apply for Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Applications are due Wednesday June 19 so go here for more info and apply now! Today's Top Stories // Jun 18, 2013 Alexia Tsotsis Fear And Loathing Of Silicon Valley Welcome to the Summer of 2013. Welcome to the summer when you're not quite sure which of your Internet activities are being tracked. When you want to start... read more Alexia Tsotsis Why Was Apple Late To The PRISM Party? If there's one striking thing about those PRISM slides, other than their hideous aesthetics, it's that Apple's allocated yellow oval, instead of a date, has the... read more Darrell Etherington Tesla Battery Swapping Tech For Long Trips Without Charging Stops To Be Demoed June 20 Elon Musk took to Twitter early this morning (via Verge) to promote an event coming this Thursday that promises to show off new tech that allows quick swapping... read more John Biggs If You Watch One Daft Punk Remix Performed By Robots (And Jack Conte) Today, Make It This One Jack Conte, musician and founder of Patreon, has been on a tear lately with a set of unique music remixes performed by him and a group of pneumatic robots that... read more Natasha Lomas Worried Who's Watching Your Web Browsing? Adafruit's Onion Pi Tor Proxy Project Creates A Private, Portable Wi-Fi Access Point Adafruit Industries has put together a weekend project for people worried the NSA is monitoring how many reruns of Seinfeld they watch on their tablet. The... read more Ryan Lawler FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing from Andreessen Horowitz, we've learned. The... read more John Biggs Goji Is A Smart Lock For Your Home That Has Nothing To Do With Berries Welcome to the era of the round, shiny in-home automation system. While Nest led the charge early on, a new device, called Goji, is taking up the mantle. The... read more Jordan Crook The Mini HTC One Will Be Called The HTC One Mini There's plenty of information swirling about the HTC One Mini thus far, especially considering it's not an officially announced handset by any means. Still,... read more Catherine Shu Yahoo! Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni Yahoo is offering to purchase social email startup Xobni for $30 million to $40 million, according to AllThingsD's sources. If the deal goes through, Xobni... read more Ingrid Lunden Ad Giant WPP Leads $4.4M Round In Muzy, A Mobile Microblogging Startup With 20M Users Advertising giant WPP is taking another step into the world of startup investments, this time specifically in mobile and social media. WPP Ventures, a new... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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