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Top Stories of the Day // July 12, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jul 12, 2014

Rap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius, Launches Embeddable Annotations

Rap Genius made three big moves today to further its goal to annotate the world. The founders tell me it's raised a $40 million Series B led by Dan Gilbert and... read more

LastPass Finds Security Holes In Its Online Password Manager, Doesn’t Think Anyone Exploited Them

When you're in charge of keeping many hundreds of thousands of passwords under lock and key, trust is everything. Maintaining that trust means fessing up when... read more

Developer Predicted LeBron’s Move To The Cavs With Website Analysis

LeBron James is going home. Sports Illustrated just announced that the king will once again don a Cleveland Cavaliers jersey. The move was predictable yet few... read more

Apple Opens Up With A New Blog About Swift, Its New Programming Language

Apple just launched a blog about Swift, its new programming language that makes it easier to build applications for iOS and Mac OS X. This is a first for Apple,... read more

647,000 Comments Have Been Sent To The FCC About Net Neutrality. Keep Them Coming.

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Apple Spent Over $3B With 7,000 U.S. Small Business Suppliers In 2013

Today, Apple SVP of Operations Jeff Williams attended a meeting with President Obama following the company's adoption of the White House's 'SupplierPay'... read more

The Great Fragmentation: We Are All Weirdos Now

"Technology isn't a section in the newspaper any more. It's the culture," quoth Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, prompting some eyebrow-raising by Guardian... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: The Latest Tinder Drama, The New New Microsoft, Lyft's Struggles To Launch In NYC

 It’s time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together to talk... read more

TC Cribs: Pocket Gems, Where The Office Gets Snazzed Up $100 At A Time

 Today’s episode of Cribs brings us to Pocket Gems, the San Francisco mobile entertainment startup.... read more

Electric Objects Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Build Displays For Digital Art

 Startup Electric Objects aims to build displays for Internet art, separate from devices like laptops and... read more

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