Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 28, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 28, 2013

StackOverflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Builds A $150 Mechanical Keyboard

If anyone knows far too much about their keyboard, it's a programmer.... read more

Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression

Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer... read more

Twerk, Selfie, Bitcoin, Others Added To Oxford Dictionary As Silicon Valley, Middle Schoolers Push English Language Forward

The Oxford Dictionaries Online is adding a slew of words, from bitcoin to twerk.... read more

Researchers Build The First Brain-To-Brain Control Interface

Researchers at the University of Washington, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco, have created a remote, non-invasive brain-to-brain interface that allowed Rao to move... read more

Google Dumps Video Responses From YouTube Due To Dismal .0004% Click-Through Rate

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Urbita, The Pinterest For Cities, Blows Past 10M Unique Visitors In August With Mobile Site Launch

FounderFuel Fall 2012 cohort grad Urbita, a startup based in LA and Buenos Aires, has managed to quietly amass a huge consumer following, having topped 8... read more

Parallels Launches Access For iPad, A Virtualization App That Gets Windows, Mac Apps To Work Like Native iOS Apps

Timed to coincide with VMware's conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own... read more

Shopify Launches Point-Of-Sale System To Unify Online And Brick-And-Mortar Retail

Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others,... read more

HTC Reportedly Building New Mobile OS Specifically For China Market, In Partnership With Chinese Government

HTC's Hail Mary play might not take the form of another new smartphone: The Taiwanese company is reportedly working with Chinese government officials to build a... read more

Belly Gets $12.1 Million From NEA And Others In A Bid To Take Its Loyalty App To The Next Level

It turns out that amidst all the changes in the customer rewards and loyalty app landscape, the Chicago-based loyalty startup Belly is still kicking, and... read more

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