Thursday, February 28, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // February 28, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 28, 2013

#youdidntgetglass Google Has Closed Registrations For Their #ifihadglass Pre-Order Ploy

Google has officially shut down registrations for its #ifihadglass round of Google Glass pre-orders/applications.... read more

With $1.8M From Andreessen, Chris Sacca & More, Rental Marketplace Getable Digs Into The $32B Construction Market

When we last caught up with Getable, the startup formerly known as Rentcycle, it was announcing that Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph was joining Collaborative... read more

Apple Patent Would Use The iPad's Built-In Magnets To Turn The Tablet Into An In-Car Entertainment System

A new patent application by Apple published by the USPTO this week describes a stand for the iPad that uses magnets to hold the Apple tablet in place. iPads... read more

Instagrams Of The Fiery Tyrant: How 3G Networking Could Chip Away At North Korea's Power

In the 1940s, DC comics gave Superman a new enemy. After WWII, the Ku Klux Klan was rising to power. They were gaining adherents in the south and the mystery... read more

No Hot SXSW App This Year? Here's Why

SXSW is a week away and we were having an internal pow-wow about whether there would be any breakouts this year.... read more

Video Chat Startup Rabbit Raises $3.3 Million From Google Ventures, CrunchFund, And Bebo Founder Michael Birch

Just a few weeks ago, we told you about Rabbit, a new video chat app that launched in private beta. Separating itself from other video chat services, the... read more

The Foul-Mouthed Founders Of Rap Genius Will Stir Up Trouble At TechCrunch Disrupt NY

There are not a lot of startups who've both raised $15 million from a top investor like Andreessen Horowitz but have also told Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet... read more

Foursquare CEO Looks Beyond Mobile Handsets: Anywhere There's A Screen, We Want To Be On It

Google has yet to release the Mirror API that will open Google Glass as a platform, but developers of some of the more popular mobile apps today are gearing up... read more

AT&T "Hacker" Andrew Auernheimer's Sentencing Scheduled For March 18

Internet activist (and Crunchies winner) Andrew Auernheimer's sentencing trial will take place on March 18, 2013 at 10:30am. Auernheimer aka Weev revealed a... read more

Home Inventory Updates Its Mac- And iPhone-Based Approach To Keeping Tabs On Your Worldly Possessions

Binary Formations is a husband and wife software company that has been building Home Inventory, a Mac app that makes it easy to keep a database record of your... read more

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // February 27, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 27, 2013

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Opens The Door To Samsung's Competitors: 'We'd Love To Work With You'

Drew Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, said that staying independent was a key part of Dropbox's strategy; and with mobile being the most important platform for... read more

Designer Imagines What An iPhone Phablet And iPhone Mini Might Look Like

Big screens are the talk of the town at MWC. Got nothing else to announce that makes your handset stand out from the crowd? Throw a huge screen on the sucker.... read more

Bug In Kindle Update For iOS Deletes Users' Entire Library, Amazon Warns Users Not To Update

Amazon yesterday updated its Kindle for iOS app, which works across iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, to version 3.6.1. The update was meant to fix a few bugs as... read more

Computer Science Education Had A Good Day In America

America's elite institutions came out in full force for computer science education. First, the House of Representatives voted to update its traditional students... read more

Pinterest For Products Wanelo Raises At North Of $100M

You wouldn't think that a Pinterest where you can buy stuff would be one of the hottest Series A deals of the quarter, but it was.... read more

Adobe Debuts Photoshop Touch For Phones, Bringing The Full Power Of The Tablet Version To Your Pocket

Adobe's mobile Photoshop strategy has so far kept more heavyweight editing capabilities to tablets with Photoshop Touch, and left the iPhone with Photoshop... read more

Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For $79.99

Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S.... read more

Why Qualcomm Wants To Bring Ultrasound Transmitters To Smartphones And Tablets

Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has a track record of pushing new capabilities into its chips faster than its competitors in a bid to carve out a bigger chunk of the... read more

Samsung Takes Note Of Apple's Passbook And Fires Back With Its Own Wallet App

I'm no great fan of Apple's Passbook, but it seems at least a few people at Samsung have taken a shine to the same general concept. Earlier today, Samsung... read more

Brightcove Introduces Native Video Players For iOS And Android, Will Discontinue HTML5-Based Hybrid Approach

Brightcove, one of the leading cloud content delivery providers in the world, today announced an end to a major experiment, and the start of something new for... read more

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How to use market samurai to find profitable keywords

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // February 26, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 26, 2013

Watch Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, & Others In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code

Code.org, the new non-profit aimed at encouraging computer science education launched last month by entrepreneur and investor brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi, has... read more

Rich Kids Of Google Glass

You know, I'm sort of jealous. Because I've eaten something like three Po'boy sandwiches in the past three days, and every single time I've wondered, as I was... read more

Outbox Pours Salt On Snail Mail By Launching Its Digitizing Service In San Francisco

Mail digitizing startup Outbox is launching in San Francisco today, the first step in what co-founder Will Davis says is a broader national rollout.... read more

Skype Competitor Viber Hits 175 Million Users, Up From 140 Million+ In December

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Microsoft Launches IE10 For Windows 7, Starts Auto-Upgrading IE9 Users And Launches New Ad Campagin

This sure took a while, but Microsoft just announced that Internet Explorer 10 is now finally available for all Windows 7 users worldwide. Previously, the... read more

Survey: Most Developers Now Prefer HTML5 For Cross-Platform Development

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Mozilla CEO Kovacs Pleads For Fragmentation; Says Fate Of Our Mobile World Can't Depend On Just Two Companies

Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla, today took aim at Apple and Google -- or possibly Apple and Samsung; you can take your pick about how you parse mobile... read more

Meet Buddy, Another Ambitious, Crowdfunded Smart Watch

Haven't we all suffered enough abuse at the hands of Big Smart Watch? No? Well now there's Buddy, a Bluetooth smartwatch that aims to solve the problems... read more

How A Teacher Turned To Technology To Solve A Thorny Problem And Raised $100K

The clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test... read more

If My Phone Falls Down The Seat Crevice Again I'll Lose It. Please Redesign Meatspace.

The physical world wasn't built for $500 devices we need every other minute. This is never more obvious than when I strain my back and curse like a sailor... read more

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Monday, February 25, 2013

want more subscribers? .. these 6 themes may help

Hey, happy Monday..
 
I did a lot of "web-surfing" this weekend. ... wait, do we even
call it web-surfing anymore?

It sounds so 1999..
 
Anyhoo, I visited a ton of blogs and noticed that people aren't 
clear enough about wanting their visitors to subscribe. 
 
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- hidden at the bottom of the page
- tiny small forms on the sidebar
- or nowhere to be found
 
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Talk soon, 
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Top Stories of the Day // February 25, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 25, 2013

Meet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox

ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or... read more

Developers Lead When It Comes To The Future Of iOS User Interface Design

Apple hasn't done much to change the way iOS works at its core, in terms of navigating within and between apps and the home screen. In fact, iOS is maybe the... read more

Remember webOS? LG Acquires webOS From HP, But Only Plans To Use It In Smart TVs

Troubled operating system webOS isn't defunct yet. According to CNET, LG just acquired software, licenses and the team working on webOS from HP. LG plans to... read more

Asus Debuts New 5-inch, 1080p, Snapdragon 600-Powered PadFone Infinity Smartphone-Tablet Hybrid, Coming April 2013 For €999

Asus introduced the new Padfone Infinity today at MWC in Barcelona. The successor to the company's hybrid tablet/smartphone has a redesign with an aluminum back... read more

AirWatch Gets $200 Million Series A Funding

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Stop Trying To Make WebOS Happen. It's Not Going To Happen

We need to face facts: WebOS is dead. Barring the unwavering support of the enthusiast community, the former mobile OS will never become a commercial product... read more

TC Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Talks Windows Phone Alternatives, Low-End Devices And Email

Ahead of its Mobile World Congress press conference today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop sat down with TechCrunch to talk about the company's dual OS strategy,... read more

The Nokia Lumia 720 Is A Stylish Windows Phone 8 Cameraphone For Self-Conscious Fashionistas

The 3G Nokia Lumia 720 slots into Nokia's Windows Phone 8 portfolio behind its two 4G flagships, the 920 and 820 -- with the aim of pushing some of their... read more

The Nokia 301 Is An $85 Feature Phone With Smartphone-Style Camera Tricks To Nip At Android's Low End

Nokia has unwrapped a new handset -- not a fancy smartphone but a budget feature phone: the Nokia 301 (pictured left) is an $85 mobile that doesn't have a... read more

Hands On With Nokia's New Entry Level Windows Phone 8 Handset, The Lumia 520 (Heading Stateside In Q2)

The Lumia 520 is Nokia's new entry level Windows Phone device -- costing ~$180 before taxes and coming to the U.S. in Q2. So what do you get for not-too-many... read more

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