Top Stories of the Day // August 22, 2013

	Don't miss the latest news on fundings and acquisitions from CrunchBase. Sign up today and get CrunchBase Daily delivered to your inbox tomorrow! Today's Top Stories // Aug 22, 2013 Natasha Lomas Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Fails To Hit Ambitious $32M Crowdfunding Target Trying to raise $32 million via crowdfunding always looked overly ambitious. And indeed it has proved to be so. Canonical's Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo campaign to... read more Mahesh Sharma Google Now Update Adds More Entertainment And Travel Features To The Android Personal Assistant App Google has added a half dozen new travel and entertainment features to its personalised search app Google Now, aiming to capture the attention of the real-world... read more Natasha Lomas Omate, A Smartwatch That's Also A Phone & Sports Tracker, Passes $100K Kickstarter Funding Goal In A Day Post-Pebble's $10.2 million Kickstarter record, the smartwatch launches keep on coming. The latest wrist-affixed contender to step up for a slice of smartwatch... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Seeks Patent For Skype-Style Away Status For Phone Calls, But Set Automatically In a new patent filing published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), Apple describes a system for setting essentially an "Away/Available/Busy" style status... read more Steve O'Hear Nearly 4 Million Downloads Later, iOS Grocery List App Buy Me A Pie! Lands On Android Buy Me A Pie!, the cloud-powered grocery list maker for iOS, has finally made good on its promise and brought the app to Google's Android mobile OS.... read more Natasha Lomas Tadaa 3D Is A Photo-Sharing App That's One Part Instagram And One Part Drunk The German startup behind the Tadaa iOS photo-sharing and editing app, which has built up a three million-strong user-base, have launched a new flavour of photo... read more Darrell Etherington Google Exploring Location-Dependent Security Settings For Smartphone Unlock Google has a patent application published today (via Engadget) that would make the standard system of unlocking a device much more intelligent, using a... read more Stephanie Yang Coffee Meets Bagel Takes Its Online Dating Service National With Its New iOS App Coffee Meets Bagel, an online dating site that provides a friend-of-a-friend match every day, is now making matches nationwide. Launched in New York City in... read more Catherine Shu Wine Retailer NakedWines.com Savors $10 Million In New Funding NakedWines.com, the customer-funded online wine retailer, has raised $10 million in a third round of investment from WIV Wein International AG, a German group... read more Frederic Lardinois Google's Street View Ups Its Panda Count, Adds 6 New Zoos For quite a while now, Google has featured Street View imagery from zoos around the world. Today, the company decided to highlight some of these image... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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