Top Stories of the Day // July 31, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register today and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Jul 31, 2013 John Biggs NSA Project X-Keyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called X-Keyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the... read more Josh Constine Memes Give Facebook Fans A Voice Amidst Comment Chaos Whispering in a riot is how I would describe commenting on a Facebook Page's feed posts. No matter how thoughtful they are, your words get drowned out. But a... read more Josh Constine Quip Is A Beautiful New Mobile-First Word Processor From Ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor 30 years later and our word processing software hasn't changed, not even to adapt to mobile. That changes tonight with the launch of Quip, a free new word... read more John Biggs Study Finds 3D Printing Could Save The Average Home Up To $2,000 A Year While I don't have to remind you about the value of studies - many company-funded studies are best dropped directly in the trash after publication - this one... read more Darrell Etherington Google To Supply Free Wi-Fi Hotspots For All 7,000 U.S. Starbucks Locations Google has just announced via a blog post that it will be offering free, faster Wi-Fi hotspots at all U.S. company-operated Starbucks locations, which will get... read more Natasha Lomas Old Enough To Remember Paperboy For NES? Now You Can Live It With Oculus Rift Old school gamers will remember Paperboy, a 1984 arcade game that let you savour the pleasure of virtually breaking your neighbours windows by tossing a rolled... read more Natasha Lomas Sensoria's Smart Fitness Socks Track Your Steps And Coach Your Running Style The Sensoria Smart Sock Fitness Tracker tracks your steps and advises on running style by doing real-time gait analysis using a combination of a pair of socks... read more Darrell Etherington Google Offers Glass Explorers An Invite To Make A Friend A Glasshole, Too Google is bringing more Glass Explorers into the program, and it's doing that the best way it knows how: by letting current users invite a friend. Those among... read more John Biggs Veteran Gaming Journalist Steve Morgenstern Dies Of Sudden Illness Gaming journalist Steve Morgenstern died on July 24 after a sudden illness. He was founding editor of Atari Age, a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the platform... read more Jordan Crook Yet Another Smartwatch Joins The Fight And This One's "Hot" Pebble not meeting your needs? The Basis knows just a little too much about you for your comfort? Is the Metawatch too meta?... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein Taxi Groups Call For Eradication Of Rideshare Startups At SF City Hall Protest The CrunchGov Essential is a scannable roundup of technology’s influence on the day’s big issues. Below a feature post, we present the most… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // July 30, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register today and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Jul 30, 2013 Anthony Ha Crowdfunding Reaches Its Terrible, Glorious Climax With 'Smart Vibrator' Vibease The startup behind a "wearable smart vibrator" called Vibease has taken to Indiegogo with hopes of raising at least $30,000 from fans.... read more Alex Williams Forrester Says The Chromebook's Time Has Arrived In The Enterprise, But Security Is The Nagging Issue IT should ignore the naysayers and consider adopting the Google Chromebook. That's the conclusion of a Forrester Research Report that looked at the future of... read more Leena Rao Hilary Mason Leaves Bitly To Join VC Firm Accel As Its First Data Scientist In Residence Accel Partners is announcing a major talent win tonight, with the addition of former Bitly chief scientist Hilary Mason as its first data scientist in... read more Natasha Lomas HTC's Hardship Continues As It Predicts Operating Loss In Q3 No surprise: HTC's run of declining quarters is predicted to continue. But the dip now looks set to push into the red in Q3. The Android mobile maker has just... read more Darrell Etherington Vaavud Smartphone Wind Meter Now Available, Use Your Phone To Measure Windspeed Like It's The Future Kickstarter success Vaavud is a thing of beauty. Created by a Danish team of enterprising inventors, it plugs into your iPhone or Android device's headphone... read more Sarah Perez Netflix User Profiles Start Appearing On Apple TV The long-awaited Netflix user profiles have made their first appearance, ahead of their expected August debut. According to several reports, user profiles are... read more Billy Gallagher Grid, An App That Helps You Organize Ideas And Projects, Announces A Seed Round From Jerry Yang, Phil Libin, Others Grid Grid, an "Excel minus the equations" app that helps you plan and organize more effectively and beautifully, announced today that it has raised a seed... read more alexjameswilhelm Zynga Sheds Three Top Execs As Its New CEO Shakes Up The Troubled Gaming Firm In the last month, Zynga has quietly parted ways with three of its executive staff, early changes under the period of transition that the company's new CEO,... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents Triple Sensor, Triple Lens iPhone Camera For Better Resolution And Color Accuracy Apple has been granted a new patent related to camera tech by the USPTO today, which uses three different sensors and three different lenses to improve color... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Facebook Announces New Mobile Game Publishing Effort read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein Why Labor Unions And Silicon Valley Aren’t Friends, In 2 Charts None of the Internet giants have unionized employees, which has made Silicon Valley a favorite target for civil libertarians. Earlier this month, after… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // July 29, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register today and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Jul 29, 2013 Matt Burns BMW Officially Unveils The i3, An Electric Hot Hatch With A $41k Starting Price Watch out, Tesla. BMW has officially entered the EV market. With the BMW i3, officially announced today, the Bavarian auto maker has a vehicle and, with that, a... read more Natasha Lomas Move Over Google Glass -- GlassUp Is A Less Creepy And Much Cheaper Pair Of AR Specs read more Frederic Lardinois Bootstrap 3 Goes Mobile-First, Now Reportedly Powers 1% Of The Web The team behind Bootstrap, the immensely popular grid-based, front-end framework for web development, launched the first release candidate of Bootstrap 3... read more Rip Empson Yahoo And Google Are Both Spending Big Money On Acquisition Sprees And What That Says About Their Futures These days it seems as if a startup so much as glances in Marissa Mayer's direction, it can expect a bid within 24 hours. There's been a lot of buzz about... read more Colleen Taylor Surf Air, The Air Travel Startup That's Bridging The Tech Hubs Of L.A. And S.F. There are a lot of factors that come into play when working to build a successful tech startup, and historically, a big one has been location -- hence the... read more Darrell Etherington Plastic Casing For Apple's Low-Cost iPhone Gets Confirmed In A Supplier Responsibility Investigation Apple's plans to release a low-cost iPhone got a solid confirmation from a new report by China Labor Watch this morning. The unlikely source of new product info... read more Catherine Shu Bob Mansfield To Leave Senior VP Of Tech Role At Apple, But Will Remain To Work On Special Projects Bob Mansfield is leaving his role as Senior VP of Technologies at Apple, but will remain at the company to work on special projects reporting to Tim Cook. read more Leena Rao Jawbone Hires Its First VP Of Data To Focus On The Intersection Of Wearables, Quantified Self And Personalized Health Jawbone has made a key hire that shows some of the direction the company is headed towards when it comes to the quantified self and wearables development. The... read more alexjameswilhelm Michael Dell Vows To Stay At Dell Regardless Of The Outcome Of His Offer To Take The Firm Private After promising to sell his shares at a discount and increasing the price of his offer, Michael Dell, founder of Dell, has today vowed to stay at the firm... read more Catherine Shu Crowdfunding Site Medifund Wants To Help Students Become Doctors Medifund is a crowdfunding Web site that wants to increase the number of doctors in countries with a critical shortage by helping students afford medical... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // July 28, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 28, 2013 Eric Eldon Angels Get Carry For Helping A Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates read more Ingrid Lunden Publicis And Omnicom Are Merging To Form A $35.1B Advertising Leviathan Today Publicis and Omnicom, two of the "big five" global advertising and marketing agencies, announced a "merger of equals", in which the two will combine to... read more Ashley Verrill How Apple Gets At-Home Workers To Work When a leaked memo broke the news earlier this year that Yahoo was ending its work-from-home program, CEO Marissa Mayer was both lauded and lambasted for the... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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