Thursday, June 20, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // June 20, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Jun 20, 2013

Live From Facebook's 'New Product' Mystery Announcement

Just last week, a small chunk of the tech press was surprised to find invitations for a Facebook announcement waiting in their mailbox.... read more

Vine Goes On The Offensive, Teases New Features Ahead Of Instagram Video Launch

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LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking [Update: Fidelity.com Also Affected]

LinkedIn confirmed via Twitter that its site suffered an outage due to "a DNS issue." read more

Zuckerberg Replies To His Facebook Commenters' Questions On Immigration

"If it's just about tech wanting to hire more people, not as impressive" commented one of Mark Zuckerberg's 18 million Facebook followers. "It's definitely not... read more

Rad, A Parisian Hipster Fashion Portal, Gets $3.3M Led By Index To Go International

Because fashion never goes out of style, fashion portals continue to bring in the money not just from consumers looking for the next big thing -- be it style or... read more

Valar Morghulis, Or, 'Why I Don't Care That HBO GO Is On Apple TV'

Apple TV got HBO Go and Watch ESPN and some other content yesterday. Cool. Am I supposed to care?... read more

A Term Sheet Written In Plain English? Put That In Your Silicon Valley Pipe And Smoke It

From the painstakingly obvious in retrospect why did nobody think of it before department: London-based early-stage VC Passion Capital has updated its standard... read more

Vine Has A Head Start, But There's Plenty Of Room For An Instagram Video Win

Facebook is making an announcement later today that we have heard could do with Instagram, its very popular photo app, getting a video service. If true,... read more

30 Days In, Bitcoin Angel Group BitAngels Doubles Network To 120, Puts First $100K Into Seasteading Venture, Blueseed

As has been written ad nauseam, we've seen a lot of activity in the wild and wacky world of cryptocurrency of late, thanks primarily to the tech industry's new... read more

Rocket Internet's Lazada Lands $100M As It Seeks To Become The "Amazon Of Southeast Asia"

Lazada, the e-commerce site founded by Rocket Internet in a bid to build the "Amazon of Southeast Asia," announced today that it has landed another $100 million... read more

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