Saturday, August 16, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // August 16, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 16, 2014

Bill Gates And Tim Cook Dump Ice On Their Heads For ALS Awareness, Challenge Elon Musk and Dr. Dre

Oh, you thought Bill Gates wouldn't be up to Zuck's challenge to dump a bucket of icewater on his head for ALS awareness? You thought wrong. And because it's... read more

Kevin Rose Steps Into Part-Time Role At Google Ventures To Build A New Startup Called North

Serial entrepreneur, investor, and overall Internet good guy Kevin Rose is stepping down from his role of general partner at Google Ventures. The Digg and... read more

Do Software Engineers Get Enough Respect?

"For software engineers, life must seem like it keeps getting better," cheerleads CNet. Glassdoor agrees: our median salary is now $85K, and six figures in San... read more

Yes, Rapportive Is All #$%@ed Up Right Now

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The Bolstr Bag Is A Gadget Toter’s Best Friend

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Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You.

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Google AdWords Removes Advertisers’ Ability To Match Only Exact Keywords

Google's AdWords is about to get a small but important update in September, the company announced today. Until now, advertisers had two options when it came to... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: Amazon Takes On Square, Tech CEOs Get Dunked, BurritoCannon Comes True

 We’re in the mid-August tech news cycle (AKA, it’s pretty slow), which made for some interesting... read more

Fly Or Die: The New Foursquare

As you might have noticed, Foursquare made some big changes this summer. The first was the introduction of a new... read more

The Road To Disrupt: A Look At Ansa, The Off-The-Record Messaging App

 On this week’s installment of the Road To Disrupt video series, we meet our final Startup Battlefield... read more

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