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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