Top Stories of the Day // September 30, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 30, 2013 Alex Williams Google Fiber Compared To Broadband By Putting A Middle Age Guy In A Bath Robe And Soaking Him With A Firehose Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber in the next few months. So how do you explain to the people of this small city south of Salt Lake what that will mean for... read more Darrell Etherington Android Remote Application Framework Provides True Multi-Screen Experiences For Mobile Android doesn't really have an AirPlay equivalent – its Miracast and Mirrorlink technologies are similar, but lack the kind of opportunity Apple's tech... read more Darrell Etherington BlackBerry Claims BBM Is Still Coming To Android And iPhone, But Has Given No Timeline Amid dire financial results and an oddly-timed smartphone launch, BlackBerry's big BBM for iPhone and Android launch seemed lost in a murky grey purgatory with... read more Darrell Etherington John McAfee Wants To Make A Cheap Gadget For Decentralized Networking, But Occupy.here Already Does Antivirus creator and eccentric world-roaming rich guy John McAfee has a plan to get around the NSA's snooping with a gadget called the "D-Central," which is... read more Natasha Lomas Google To Be Punished In France For Failing To Pare Back Its Overreaching Privacy Policy Google is facing sanctions in France after it failed to amend its privacy policy to comply with French data protection law within a timetable set out by the... read more Chris Velazco MLB's iBeacon Experiment May Signal A Whole New Ball Game For Location Tracking There's been plenty of buzz about iBeacons and Bluetooth Low Energy radios -- they're supposed to do wonders for in-venue positioning, and plenty of companies... read more Ingrid Lunden Digital Ads Will Be 22% Of All U.S. Ad Spend In 2013, Mobile Ads 3.7%; Total Global Ad Spend In 2013 $503B Global ad spend in 2013 will see steady growth of 3.5% to reach $503 billion by the end of the year, and the amount going into internet advertising will... read more TOP VIDEOS Google Fiber Compared To Broadband By Putting A Middle Age Guy In A Bath Robe And Soaking Him With A Firehose Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber in the next few months. So how do you explain to the people of this small city... read more CrunchWeek: Microsoft's New Surface 2, BlackBerry's $4.7B Buyout, Big Changes In Fundraising Happy Saturday! It's time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers... read more Gillmor Gang: Sensorship The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — new iPhone + new... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 29, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 29, 2013 Darrell Etherington After Near-$1B Inventory Write-Down, BlackBerry Starts Selling Unlocked Smartphones Direct To U.S. Buyers Well that was quick: Not long after T-Mobile announced it would stop carrying BlackBerry hardware in its retail stores (but continue selling them online), the... read more Sean D. Young The Science Behind Using Online Communities To Change Behavior Is it just me, or is it impossible to talk to technology entrepreneurs without mentioning user engagement and behavior? I'm a behavioral psychologist, so that... read more Alex Rampell The Danger And Opportunity Of The Intermediate Metric Are social media companies overvalued? The question is not just a matter of revenue multiples (low or high), but rather whether that revenue is actually... read more Darrell Etherington Peerby's Local Lending App Is Ready To Help Neighbours Participate In The Sharing Economy You've got stuff, but not all the stuff you need. Dutch startup and TechStars London first cohort member Peerby is hoping to unlock the use value of that stuff... read more TOP VIDEOS CrunchWeek: Microsoft's New Surface 2, BlackBerry's $4.7B Buyout, Big Changes In Fundraising Happy Saturday! It's time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers... read more Gillmor Gang: Sensorship The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — new iPhone + new... read more Ask A VC: Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain On The Next Disruptions In Health Tech And More In this week's TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we had Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain in the studio to talk... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 28, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 28, 2013 Alexia Tsotsis JustFab's Checkout Tactics Are JustShady This Hacker News complaint about JustFab scamming a user's girlfriend -- which gets resubmitted whenever JustFab raises money -- is a little off, because... read more Alex Williams It's Official, The Nirvanix Cloud Storage Service Is Shutting Down It's official, Nirvanix is shutting down its business. The cloud storage company has scrapped its web site, replacing it with a statement and how to get in... read more Rip Empson Software For Auto Repair: With New Funding In Tow, Estify Sees Big Opportunity In An Unsexy Market The collision industry probably doesn't rank at the top of the "Sexy Markets" list for startups, but sometimes the most obscure, fragmented and... read more Jon Evans The Genius Of Twitter: A Paean It's the first app I launch in the morning, and the first I install on a new phone, and my most-visited web site. Which is strange, because I don't much like... read more Peter Relan Where Webvan Failed And How Home Delivery 2.0 Could Succeed Webvan is well-known as the poster child of the dot-com "excess" bubble that led to the tech market crash in 2000. Business schools study Webvan's overly... read more Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm Microsoft Extends Its Trade-In Program: $200+ For Your "Gently Used" iPhone 4S, 5 read more Rip Empson Bizness Apps Launches DIY Website Builder, Looks To Become A Full-Service Digital Marketing Suite For SMBs read more TOP VIDEOS Ask A VC: Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain On The Next Disruptions In Health Tech And More In this week's TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show, we had Emergence Capital Partners' Kevin Spain in the studio to talk... read more Gillmor Gang Live 09.27.13 (TCTV) Gillmor Gang - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session... read more Hands On With The New And Improved Screenhero, The App That Takes Screen Sharing To The Next Level If you think screen sharing has already been mastered by the likes of WebEx and GoToMeeting, you probably haven't... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 27, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 27, 2013 Jordan Crook Goldfinger 2: Asian Site Leaks Rumored Gold iPad Mini 2 With TouchID Sensor It's not that much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that Apple might unveil gold, or "space gray," iPads in the upcoming month(s). That's why it's... read more Chris Velazco BlackBerry Reports $1.6B In Revenue And A $965M Loss In Q2 2014 Things have been looking awfully bleak for BlackBerry lately, and today the company revealed just how rough things have gotten in its newest earnings release.... read more John Biggs Jeff Bezos, Switchboard Operator read more Catherine Shu Facebook Starts Up Its Mobile Ad Network Again, Focuses On Improved Targeting After a nine-month pause, Facebook is taking its mobile ad network out for another spin. "We're running a second test to show Facebook ads off Facebook in... read more Mahesh Sharma Payments Startup MobiKwik Launches Mobile Wallet As India's Central Bank Acts To End Country's Cash Dependence In a move that could ease paper money's stranglehold over the Indian economy and society, Mobikwik is releasing a mobile wallet for the country's burgeoning... read more Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm Microsoft's Mobile Platforms Suffer From Flagging Developer Interest Appcelerator, a company that supports multi-platform development, released its quarterly developer report today that details Microsoft's difficult market... read more Darrell Etherington TechStars London's Debut Demo Day: Meet The Ten Startups Who Presented TechStars London held its 2013 Demo Day today, with a cohort of ten startup presenting, having graduated from the bootcamp-style 13 week program. The startups... read more TOP VIDEOS Hands On With The New And Improved Screenhero, The App That Takes Screen Sharing To The Next Level If you think screen sharing has already been mastered by the likes of WebEx and GoToMeeting, you probably haven't... read more Quantified Work: Meet Stir, A Former iPod Engineer's Smart, Health-Tracking And Height-Adjustable Desk If you're anything like me, you spend too much of your day at your desk, in front of your computer. During busy... read more JumpCam, Backed With $2.7M, Debuts Its Snappy Mobile App For Making Collaborative Videos If you've been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you've probably seen this kind... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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