Top Stories of the Day // August 16, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Aug 16, 2014 Greg Kumparak 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 Ryan Lawler 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 Jon Evans 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 $85K, and six figures in San... read more Sarah Perez Yes, Rapportive Is All #$%@ed Up Right Now read more John Biggs The Bolstr Bag Is A Gadget Toter’s Best Friend read more Kim-Mai Cutler Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You. read more Frederic Lardinois 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 Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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