Friday, March 29, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 29, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 29, 2013

Bitcoin: How An Unregulated, Decentralized Virtual Currency Just Became A Billion Dollar Market

Hang around in the tech industry long enough and you or someone you know will be heard saying, "that's so crazy it just might work." Two years ago, if you'd... read more

Facebook To Reveal "Home On Android" Sources Say Is A Modified OS On HTC At 4/4 Event

Facebook just invited press to an event at its headquarters on April 4th to "Come See Our New Home On Android". Sources tell us it will be a modified version of... read more

OUYA's Julie Uhrman Unveils The Android Console's Interface And Games

Today is a big day for OUYA, the Kickstarter-backed, Android-based game console. The company is announcing that its $99 console will be available on June 4 (the... read more

Sprint Nextel and SoftBank Agree Not To Use Huawei Equipment After Merger

Sprint Nextel and SoftBank have pledged not to use equipment from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies after they merge. Congressman Mike... read more

Enterprise-Class 3D Printers To Drop Under $2,000 By 2016, Says Report

3D printing is still in its infancy. But, to use an overused phrase, it is the future. From home use to enterprise use, 3D printing will continue to grow and... read more

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Maps The Universe With NASA's Data

The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including... read more

Office-As-A-Service RocketSpace Doubles Real Estate To Accomodate Bigger Startups

Startups around the world are desperate for office space in the San Francisco Bay Area, so tomorrow RocketSpace will announce the lease of a new 50,000 sq. ft.... read more

Backed By General Catalyst Partners & First Round Capital, Chloe & Isabel Offers A Modern, Tech-Savvy Take On Direct-Selling

When many people think of direct-selling, they envision Tupperware parties or pink-suited women lugging cases of cosmetics door-to-door. New direct-selling... read more

Delicious Becomes A Bit More Social Again, Adds Twitter And Facebook Logins

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Under Amazon's Wing, Goodreads Plans Closer Integration While Retaining Its Indie Status

Following this afternoon's announcement that Amazon has agreed to acquire Goodreads, I had a few minutes to talk to the Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon... read more

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 28, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 28, 2013

Apple Patents iPhone With Wraparound Display, Including Designs That Plug Together Voltron-Style

Apple has a new patent filing just published by the USPTO today which details a wraparound-style AMOLED display that could make it possible to create an iPhone... read more

Google Starts Testing Google Shopping Express In SF, With Free Delivery From Target, Walgreens, Staples And More

Google is finally opening up its Google Shopping Express service to the public today, with the same day delivery service being made available as a test to... read more

Questionable Entries Prompt Google To Retract Some Glass Explorer Invitations

Google made plenty of nerds happy earlier this week when it began reaching out to the 8,000 people that would have the privilege of spending $1,500 on the... read more

Three Men Arrested For Attempting To Cut Undersea Internet Cable In Egypt

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BlackBerry Posts Promising Q4 Results After BB10 Launch: EPS Of $0.22, Revenue Of $2.7B, ~1M Z10s Shipped

For the past year BlackBerry has been trying to prove to the world that it's not a mobile has-been just yet, and that all came to a head earlier this year... read more

Manufacturers Ramping Up For June 2013 iPhone 5S Launch

A confidential presentation that describes a Shenzhen-based manufacturer's 2013 product plans points to a few interesting bits of information about the iPhone... read more

Surprise: Europe's King Now Has Nearly As Many Daily Users As Zynga

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HubSpot Acquires Notification Aggregator Chime And Calendar App PrepWork

Marketing software company HubSpot is announcing that it has acquired two small startups — Chime and PrepWork.... read more

ShopLocket Partners With WordPress.com To Enable Blog-Based E-Commerce

Toronto-based startup ShopLocket wants to enable its users to sell anything, anywhere with an ultra-easy e-commerce platform that pretty much anyone can figure... read more

BioShock Infinite Creator Ken Levine Says He Doesn't Believe In Utopias (Including Peter Thiel's)

When my friends found out that I was going to interview Irrational Games' Ken Levine, who led the development of the acclaimed video game BioShock, as well as... read more

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 27, 2013

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The Stanford Women In Business Design Yourself Spring Conference is taking place on Sunday April 7th, with TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis, Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel and many more in attendance. Sign up here to join!
Today's Top Stories // Mar 27, 2013

Facebookers Go Red To Support Marriage Equality

Notice a little extra red in the blue sea of Facebook the past couple of days?... read more

Meet Forecast, The Web App That Has Web App Developers Drooling

Anyone remember the last time I said "Wow! Look at how pretty this web app is!"? Because I don't. At least, not before this morning when I saw Forecast. read more

BlackBerry's Android Bet Is Paying Off

BlackBerry's App World now touts 100,000 BB10 applications. An impressive number for a platform just months old. But out of those 100,000 applications, roughly... read more

Samsung Received The Most Mobile Patents In 2012, Now Leads The World Overall

Samsung lost out big to Apple last year in a mobile patent blowout in the U.S., but it's been slowly building up an arsenal of patents that potentially will... read more

A Leaner, Stronger, More Modest Y Combinator

"This is way better." That was the prevailing sentiment at today's Y Combinator Demo Day where 47 fresh startups strutted their stuff for investors. Compared to... read more

Netflix Goes Sci-Fi With Its Next Original Series, Sense8

Hot on the heels of Netflix's original series House Of Cards, the company hasannounced that it will release a new sci-fi TV series to the platform called... read more

Audioair Wants To Unlock Audio From Muted TVs Everywhere And Give Your Local Bar A New Way To Advertise

If you've ever been in a sports bar with your friends to watch a big game, you've likely run into the "muting" problem. While the bar may have two dozen TVs,... read more

The New Flipboard Lets You Create Your Own Mobile Magazine, Adds Search, Etsy And More

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Microsoft Will Release Windows Blue Public Preview At Build Conference In June

Microsoft will be releasing an initial public preview release of Windows Blue, its next-generation desktop operating system, at its annual Build developer... read more

Click & Grow Turns To Kickstarter To Seed Its 2nd Gen "Smart Herb Garden"

Another established hardware startup is turning to Kickstarter to help fund its next wares. This time it's the turn of Click & Grow, maker of the smart... read more

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 26, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 26, 2013

You're Doing It Wrong, BlackBerry

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently confirmed with CNET that the company would launch a midtier device yet this year and an "exciting" new flagship device... read more

Fitocracy's 1M Users, Including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Are More Engaged Than Any Other Social Network Besides Facebook

As quantified self devices and services come into their own, gamified social fitness tracker Fitocracy has found itself smack dab in the middle of a movement.... read more

Internet Borked? The Amazing Jellybean Resets It All In The Right Order With One Button Press (Or Over Bluetooth)

A few years ago, I received a panicked phone call from a friend I hadn't heard from in months. His Internet connection was on the fritz, and he had a huge... read more

Fingerprints Instead Of Credit Cards? YC-Backed PayTango Aims To Make Payments Work Through Biometrics

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Google Launches "Full Value Of Mobile" Calculator To Help Businesses Measure Online And Offline Impact Of Mobile Marketing

The market for mobile advertising is forecast to reach $11.4 billion this year on the back of explosive growth in smartphones and tablets, but companies like... read more

Pocket Introduces Publisher Tools And Analytics To Extend Content Life With Its 8.5M-Strong Audience

Pocket, the save-for-later service that evolved from ReadItLater, is introducing new publisher tools today, including a way to see how content saved to the... read more

Yelp Announces A New 'Revenue Estimator' For Small Businesses

Yelp is announcing a new feature intended to highlight and quantify the value that the listing and review site provides for small businesses.... read more

Apple Patents Battery-Saving Multi-Touch Displays That Don't Need To Be Active To Work

Apple was granted a patent Tuesday by the USPTO that describes a system for implementing multi-touch in a mobile device even when there the display itself isn't... read more

Bug Kills Facebook Comments And Like Counts Across The Web, But Fix Will Restore Them Soon

Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that a new bug has temporarily reset Like counts and comment threads on sites sporting its Like buttons and Comments... read more

Crowd Surfing The Zombie Apocalypse, Or Why Spotify's TV Ad Is So Creepy We Made A Parody

I love you Spotify, but you're freaking me out. Today you showed off your first television commercial. It's supposed to introduce the mainstream world to the... read more

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