Friday, February 7, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 7, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 7, 2014

That Secret App Is Becoming Silicon Valley’s New Blind Item

"I work at Evernote and we're about to get acquired... Watch this space" That could be the first big acquisition rumor to have found its way onto Secret, the... read more

Updated: Google Didn’t Pay $750M For A 5.94% Stake In Lenovo

Google paid $750 million for a 5.94% stake in Lenovo Group on Jan. 30, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The purchase was made on the... read more

Look At These Big-Screen iPhone 6 Concept Photos

In 2012, after five generations of iPhone, Apple switched up the size of their flagship smartphone. Rather than sporting a 3.5-inch display, as it had for five... read more

Google Launches Chromebox For Meetings, A $999 Videoconferencing System Based On ChromeOS

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Ben Horowitz’s Bitcoin Bet

Today in bitcoin ephemera I present this interesting bet between VC Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz and Felix Salmon, noted bitcoin curmudgeon. Ben has... read more

Mooshimeter Is A Smarter Multimeter That Works As A Wireless Extension Of Your Smartphone

The presence of Bluetooth LE/4.0 in the latest generations of smartphones and tablets has let to an explosion of hardware/sensor add-ons that extend the... read more

Mt. Gox Temporarily Pauses Bitcoin Withdrawals

Mt. Gox has temporarily suspended Bitcoin withdrawals in order to resolve a technical issue, the company said on its site. read more



TOP VIDEOS

Keen On… The Second Machine Age: Will Humans Still Have A Role In Our Economy Of Brilliant Technologies?

The hot new book about the digital economy is Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's The Second Machine Age: Work,... read more

CrunchWeek: Microsoft's CEO Hunt Heats Up, Google Says Goodbye Moto, Facebook's Paper App

With the Super Bowl right around the corner, for many Americans this weekend is all about football -- but tech... read more

Gillmor Gang: Brand Royalty

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — seem perfectly willing... read more

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