Top Stories of the Day // September 3, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 6 days with Dick Costolo,Marissa Mayer,Mark Zuckerberg and many more. All students get 90% off General Admission and tickets are going fast so go here to get yours today! Today's Top Stories // Sep 3, 2013 Colleen Taylor Microsoft Enters Into $7.2B Deal To Buy Nokia's Devices And Services Business And License Its Patents In a surprise move, Microsoft announced Monday evening that it has inked a deal with Nokia to acquire "substantially all of Nokia's Devices & Services... read more Jon Evans The Mediated Life Is Not Worth Living I spent last week in Black Rock City, where on Saturday night I and 60,000 others stood within a ring of hundreds of vehicles transformed into spectacular art,... read more Darrell Etherington Like Apple, Microsoft Now Controls Every Aspect Of Its Smartphones, But Hasn't Shown Itself Ready For The Responsibility Microsoft gains a key advantage with its acquisition of Microsoft's handset and devices division today: control. Microsoft itself says that acquiring the phones... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents iOS Unlocking Methods That Determine Level Of User Access To Device Features And Software A big request from parents regarding iOS has been that Apple implement user accounts on its mobile devices, in order to make it so that a parent can sign in... read more Darrell Etherington Amazon Now Offering Users Discounted Or Free Digital Versions Of Print Books Bought Through Its Site Amazon announced a new program today called Kindle MatchBook, which offers digital versions of print books purchased through its online bookstore to customers... read more Ingrid Lunden Spotify Makes Its Biggest Hardware Play Yet With Spotify Connect, Syncing Music At Home And Beyond Spotify is today adding a new feature to its iOS app that represents the streaming company's most ambitious move yet to position itself as the go-to music app... read more Natasha Lomas Nokia's $7.2BN Devices & Services Exit Is Just The Latest Chapter In A 150-Year History Of Business Shifts You don't get to be an almost 150-year-old company, as Nokia is, without being good at reinvention. The Finnish company's latest Houdini trick -- announced late... read more Ingrid Lunden A Trojan Horse Once Again? Stephen Elop, Now EVP Of Devices At Microsoft, Confirmed As An 'Internal' Candidate For CEO Slot, As He Lays Out Plans In His Own Words Microsoft's landmark decision to buy Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion will put Stephen Elop back into business working at the company where he was... read more Darrell Etherington Sizing Up The Nokia That Remains, HERE Business A Bright Spot That Gains More Platform Freedom Nokia is divesting itself of its hardware division, selling that business mostly off to Microsoft in a deal worth around $7.2 billion announced today. But it... read more Colleen Taylor Inside Hack Reactor, The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The Future At the same time that unemployment and low wages continue to plague the larger U.S. economy, Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry is having a hiring... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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