Thursday, September 6, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // September 6, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Sep 6, 2012

Samsung Sells 20M+ Galaxy S IIIs In 100 Days: A Benchmark Or A Red Herring For Apple, Nokia, Amazon?

Nokia and Motorola had their day in the device spotlight yesterday, and today it is Amazon's turn, with Apple's next week. So in the middle of all of this, just... read more

LinkedIn Unveils Redesigned Company Pages: Simpler, More Visual, And More Relevant

LinkedIn plans to roll out a new version of its company pages today, part of a broader attempt to redesign and simplify its core products, including its... read more

HootSuite CEO: We're Buying Seesmic For The Users, Not The Tech [Interview]

TechCrunch first reported earlier today that enterprise social media platform HootSuite is buying another social media platform, Seesmic. That fact has now been... read more

Startup Sauna Puts Some Money Where Its Mouth Is, Secures Inventure Backing

Startup Sauna has always been a slightly puzzling thing. It acts ike an accelerator but does not fund startups. It simply offers European (mostly from Nordic... read more

Kobo Unveils $99 Mini And $129 Glo E-Readers, Takes On Amazon With Android-Powered Arc Tablet

The big September reveal-a-thon is set to continue tomorrow with some new product announcements courtesy of Amazon, but a rival player in the e-book space is... read more

Bing It On: Microsoft Claims 2:1 Users Prefer Bing's Search Results Over Google's In Blind Test

Bing has a bit of an image problem and despite its best efforts, Microsoft claims, many people still have the perception that Google is simply "better." To... read more

Adobe Social Launches To Create And Monitor Social Ads

After several months in beta testing, Adobe is launching Adobe Social, which it's pitching as a way to connect social marketing campaigns with real business... read more

Sources: Amazon Publishing Cutting Deals For Serialized Fiction Series With Kindle, Print, And Audio Editions

On the eve of Amazon's first non-New York event, we're hearing from multiple sources that the online retailer could be announcing new publishing deals in... read more

Report: Pinterest Beats Yahoo Organic Traffic, Making It 4th Largest Traffic Driver Worldwide

Although reports trickling in are raising questions around Pinterest's ability to convert its network of enthusiastic photo sharers to e-commerce shoppers, the... read more

Disrupting Yesterday's Disruptors: How Millennial Entrepreneurs Are Killing It

The title of this Disrupt SF panel is terrible (two 'Disrupts,' seriously?), but its premise is pretty amazing: How do Millennials deal with shaking up an... read more

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

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Live From Nokia's Windows Phone 8 Press Conference

posted by Peter Ha

And we're live from Nokia's joint press conference with Microsoft here in rainy New York City. On tap for today's festivities include the launch of one or two...

iPhone 5. Because Of Reasons.

posted by MG Siegler

It turns out we may have been over-thinking it....

Michelle Obama's Speech Brings In 28K Tweets Per Minute, Destroys Mitt Romney

posted by Drew Olanoff

If you're into all of this political hoopla and you gauge the interest of America from the number of tweets during political events, then Michelle Obama has put...

Nokia Lumia 920 Officially Revealed: PureView Camera, Wireless Charging, Snapdragon S4 Processor

posted by Chris Velazco

Nokia has finally put weeks of speculation to rest at its New York press conference today, as the Finnish phone company just pulled back the curtains on its...

Laurene Powell Jobs, Widow Of Steve Jobs, Is Joining Stanford University's Board Of Trustees

posted by Ingrid Lunden

Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of visionary Apple co-founder and CEO, the late Steve Jobs, is joining the board of trustees of Stanford University. She has...

When Should You Buy Facebook Stock?

posted by Billy Gallagher

The rise and fall of Facebook's stock has been one of the most-covered topics of the summer, and for good reason. Everyone wants to know what will happen...

Microsoft Unveils New Windows Phone 8 Features: It's All About Photos

posted by Jordan Crook

At Nokia's press event today in New York, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore hopped on stage to demo Windows Phone 8 on the new Lumia 920. Windows Phone 8 was announced a...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's Newest Hire: Jacqueline Reses, EVP Of HR And Talent Acquisition

posted by Leena Rao

After appointing former Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt as Yahoo's CMO, the company's new chief Marissa Mayer is staffing another key role—executive vice president...

Nokia Debuts The 4.3" Lumia 820: 5MP Camera, 1.5GHz Dual-Core S4 Processor, 8GB Of Storage

posted by Jordan Crook

Nokia has taken the stage in New York City, hand-in-hand with Microsoft of course, to deliver its latest round of Lumia smartphones, powered by Windows 8. While...

Skype Gets Closer To Mobile Carriers, Inks Deal With Mach For Direct Billing For Skype Credits

posted by Ingrid Lunden

Ahead of Nokia and Microsoft's big event in New York today, where they will formally announce new Nokia/Windows Phone devices, Microsoft is making a little...

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // September 4, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Sep 4, 2012

Antisec Leaks 1,000,001 UDIDs From A Trove Of 12 Million Allegedly Stolen From An FBI Laptop

Hacker group Antisec has released 1,000,001 pieces of data related to Apple's UDID identification scheme. This data, if cross-referenced with Apple's developer... read more

How The Telecom Company Free Disrupted The Mobile Landscape In France

Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from Free in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more important,... read more

"Search... Is Obsolete" Says Xyologic, As It Takes On The Mobile Apps Long Tail

Cast your minds back - if you can - to the days when the web was a jumble of random pages. 'Web surfing' consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a... read more

Play It Again, Sam? Nokia Launches Free Music Streaming Service In U.S.

Nokia didn't fare so well with its streamed mobile music service called Ovi Music Unlimited. Now it's remixing that track and launching a free music streaming... read more

Organic (Growth) Only: Grocery List App Buy Me A Pie! Claims 2M iOS Downloads, Adds Gifting Functionality

Self-funded and hailing from Russia, Buy Me A Pie! is boasting some big numbers: The cloud-powered grocery list maker for iOS now claims 2 million downloads... read more

Ustream Apologizes For Shutting Down The Hugo Awards Livestream, Says It Will 'Recalibrate'

Maybe you haven't heard of the Hugo Awards, but to science fiction geeks, especially print science fiction geeks, they're a big deal. They're given out at the... read more

PastBook Raises $250K To Help Preserve Online Memories, Instagrammers First In Line

Some of our most precious memories exist online-only, in the form of photographs scattered across various and disparate social networks. And when the time comes... read more

Why Telefónica Is Acing It With A New $378M LatAm Fund And A Growing Incubator Network

There are a few significant trends going on in this particular era. There is an explosion of technology adoption and innovation happening in developing regions... read more

Amazon Partners With EPIX, Brings 3,000 More Titles To Prime Instant Video

Amazon's steady growth in building up its Amazon Prime Instant Video collection continues today with yet another deal with a content provider: this time, EPIX,... read more

MistoBox Wants To Boost Your Morning Cup Of Joe With The "BirchBox of Coffee"

Have a good day off? Some of us will return to work Tuesday morning rested and ready to go. Others may have enjoyed the holiday a bit too much and will be... read more

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Monday, September 3, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // September 3, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Sep 3, 2012

7-Weeks In, Dalton Caldwell's App.net Gets First Dedicated iOS App, Passes 17,500 Users

Back in July, Dalton Caldwell (of imeem and picplz fame) announced an "audacious" goal: To create a better, developer-and-user-supported (and ad-free)... read more

Android Smartphone Sales, Led By Big Screens, Are Growing Everywhere Except In The U.S.

We've seen a lot of images of an (alleged) iPhone coming soon with a bigger screen, and some numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market... read more

On Lack Of IT Readiness - And Innovators Dilemma. VMware Delivers A Sad Reality

Editor's note: Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. More about Ben here. He hangs out 24*7 on Twitter.... read more

Rocket Internet's 'Blitzkrieg': JP Morgan Invests In Russian Fashion Site Lamoda; $40-80M Reported

Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-baked fashion sites modelled on Zappos -- an undisclosed investment into... read more

Purported Redesigned Apple Earbuds Leaked In Vietnam

While rumors of the new iPhone have been rampant for most of the summer, not much has been leaked about accessories other than a purported new cable. That is... read more

How Obama Stole Romney's RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media

President Barack Obama managed to steal an impressive amount of Gov. Mitt Romney's press coverage with a few, cheap social media tricks, including the most... read more

Social Gaming, Dating Account For The Biggest Growth In Carrier Billing

Over the last year, we have seen some notable advances in mobile carrier billing -- which lets people pay for services and content on their phones by charging... read more

Swarmly Debuts Its 'Waze For People' On iOS -- Know Where Is Hot Or Not, Right Now

Swarmly, a newly-released app for iPhone, thinks it's seen a gap in the location sharing market. Unlike check-in apps like Foursquare or indeed Facebook's own... read more

MyVoucherCodes Adds Restaurant Booking Functionality To Its Mobile App, Powered By Toptable

In a move that seems like a bit of a no-brainer, but for which the company is claiming a UK first: MyVoucherCodes has added the ability to make a restaurant... read more

T-Mobile Launches CleverConnect, A Bobsled-Style VoIP Service For Europe

T-Mobile today becomes the latest operator to leverage the popularity of free internet phone calls and texts in hopes of luring in more users around its brand.... read more

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