Top Stories of the Day // September 12, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 12, 2012 Sarah Perez Apple Search Engine Reveals Product News Before Today's Event: iPhone 5, New iPods, New iTunes Confirmed Apple's search engine is mistakenly revealing the details of today's Apple news announcements in advance of today's press event where it's been expected Apple... read more John Biggs Join Us Live At 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific For Apple's iPhone Announcement We, like most of the Internet, are waiting for Apple's annual iPhone launch event where we expect to meet the new LTE iPhone 5, a new dock connector, and, if... read more Josh Constine Zuckerberg Shows He's The Right Man For The Job. Now That Job Needs Doing This was no sweaty, hoodie-clad boy genius. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated he's a business man, a mobile product visionary, and most... read more Eric Eldon and Alexia Tsotsis The Final Seven Disrupt SF Startups: Expect Labs, Gyft, Lit Motors, Prior Knowledge, Saya, YourMechanic And Zumper This year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco has been the biggest yet. Nearly 3,000 people poured in to watch a wonderful keynote by top product CEO Jack... read more Jay Donovan The Amico Bracelet: Restoring A Little Mystery To Meeting People Do you remember life before the Internet? Can you recall a time when meeting someone new took place serendipitously and was uncluttered with all the profile... read more Sarah Perez Apple Store Is Down And so it begins. In typical Apple fashion, the Apple Store has now gone down in advance of today's Apple press event (yes "event," not "press conference") here... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Quora Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Steps Back From Day-To-Day Role At The Company Quora co-founder and early Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever is stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company after starting the site in 2009.... read more Sarah Perez Scoot, The "Zipcar For Scooters," Grabs $550K In Seed Funding Scoot Networks, a system of smartphone-enabled, shared electric scooters calling itself the "Zipcar for Scooters," has closed a seed round of $550,000, which... read more Sarah Perez Time Tracking App Chronos Shows You How You Spend Your Days - And How Your Friends Do, Too Debuting at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, Chronos is a new time-tracking application for iPhone that shows you how you spend your time as well as who you're with,... read more Klint Finley Pagoda Box Is Easier Than Amazon Web Services, But More Customizable Than Heroku I've had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 11, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 11, 2012 Ryan Lawler YouTube Launches Its Own iPhone App With Better Discovery, Social Sharing, Music Videos -- And Ads! Last month, news broke that the YouTube iOS app -- which had been pre-loaded on all iPhones since their launch -- would be taken off the mobile device with the... read more Ingrid Lunden GoDaddy Coming Back; Asana's Moskovitz Calls It The Final Straw Earlier today we reported how GoDaddy suffered a major outage, affecting millions of websites and hosted e-mail accounts that are run through the hosting and... read more Darrell Etherington Apple iPhone Event Rumors: What Will, Won't And Might Be Announced We're getting close. I can almost smell that new iPhone. But what else will we see at the event? There have been plenty of rumors leading up to Wednesday's... read more Jordan Crook Viber Adds Support For S40, Symbian And Bada After Hitting 100M Users Viber has essentially been a smash hit right from its conception. The company hit 50 million registered users in February of last year, extending that to 70... read more Alex Williams FoundationDB — Not Your Standard NoSQL Database FoundationDB, here at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is a modern database with features that have been the foundation for databases since the 1970s. The result,... read more Ingrid Lunden Free Apps Account For 89% Of All Downloads; Most Of The Rest Under $3; iOS Store Biggest Of Them All ... read more Ingrid Lunden Saya Mobile Has A Message: It Wants To Be The Whatsapp For The Feature Phones Of The World Whatsapp has emerged as the leading, cross-platform messaging app among smartphone users, reaching the 10 billion messages per-day mark a couple of weeks ago.... read more Ingrid Lunden GoDaddy Says Our Crash Wasn't Anonymous, It Wasn't A Hack, It Wasn't A DDoS. It Was Internal Network Issues GoDaddy has confirmed that its DNS problems yesterday, which caused thousands of websites to go down for most of the day, are now finished. And while an alleged... read more Sarah Perez Gyft Is Moving The Plastic Gift Card Industry To Your iPhone Gyft, a new mobile application launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, allows you to buy, save and redeem gift cards using your mobile phone. Unlike the numerous... read more Ingrid Lunden UK's First 4G LTE Service, EE, Will Feature New Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Huawei Devices. Orange, T-Mobile Brands To Gradually Fade Away Today Everything Everywhere, the JV between Orange and T-Mobile UK, unveiled some more details about its new 4G network -- the first commercial LTE service for... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 10, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 10, 2012 Vinod Khosla Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? I recently read Ben Austen's WIRED article about Steve Jobs, which prompted me to put together my thoughts about the tradeoffs of being a successful... read more Leena Rao The Mobile Payments Fustercluck It seems that every week there's a new company, startup, or financial institution that is launching a new way to pay from, issue rewards, or power transactions... read more Frederic Lardinois 180 Out Of 202 Kansas City 'Fiberhoods' Reach Their Google Fiber Pre-Registration Goals Two weeks ago, things didn't look so great for Google Fiber, but after a last-minute push, 180 out of the 202 'fiberhoods' in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas... read more Rip Empson Warby Parker Sees Its Way To $36.8M Of A $40M Series B Round, Led By General Catalyst David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal founded Warby Parker last year in an attempt to breathe new life into the eyewear industry. The New York City-based startup has... read more Rip Empson OpenTable For MDs: BetterDoctor Launches To Help You Find The Best Available Care Near You "This is my personal vendetta against the broken healthcare system," Ari Tulla tells me, mid-pitch, while standing on the sidewalk after a recent TechCrunch... read more G. Nagesh Rao A Former Patent Examiner's Perspective On The Current "Patent Hubbub" Editor's Note: This guest post was written by G. Nagesh Rao, an IP-Law and Technology Commercialization Strategist based out of San Francisco and Washington DC.... read more Steve O'Hear Dragon's Den Reject SendmyBag Scores £100K Angel Funding To Help Travellers Travel Light When SendmyBag founder and CEO Adam Ewart stepped into the Dragon's Den on last night's episode of the UK television show asking for a £100k investment in... read more Ingrid Lunden The Hulu Of Russia, Ivi.ru, Raises $40M To Fight Off The Threat Of Hulu, Netflix, And YouTube Ivi.ru the "Hulu of Russia" that offers streamed premium TV and films from international and local big-name content holders, has raised another $40 million... read more Matt Burns Watch TechCrunch Disrupt SF Live! This is it. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in San Francisco and even though the show is sold out, we're still going to bring you all the action on our official... read more Darrell Etherington Mural.ly Opens Its Web-Based Creative Collaboration Platform To The Public Buenos Aires-based startup Mural.ly opened its doors to the public today, delivering a new way to collect, share and brainstorm on the web. The tool mixes a... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // September 7, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 7, 2012 Drew Olanoff Best Email Ever: How One Soldier Stationed In Afghanistan Got His Amazon News Today It's only my third official day on the job at TechCrunch, but it's been a pretty awesome time thus far. We saw an email come through the wires that stopped us... read more Ingrid Lunden Everything You Always Wanted To Know About HTML5* (*But Were Afraid To Ask) [Slides] The rise of native apps as the primary medium for mobile content is a trend that shows no signs of slowing down at the moment -- if anything, it's growing, with... read more Drew Olanoff Barack Obama's Record-Setting Speech: 52,757 Tweets Per Minute, 9M Total DNC Tweets The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records while he was at... read more Darrell Etherington More Evidence For September 21 Ship Date For iPhone 5 Back in August, TechCrunch received word that Verizon was planning a vacation blackout for September 21 to September 30, indicating that would be the release... read more Billy Gallagher TechCrunch's Picks: The Top 5 Companies From StartX's Summer 2012 Demo Day 18 companies presented at the StartX summer demo day today. The summer 2012 class is StartX's seventh and largest class; the accelerator, started in 2010, has... read more Sarah Perez Amazon's Silk Browser Now Tracking User Behavior For New "Trending Now" Section...Wait, What? Oh did you hear? Amazon announced a bunch of new Kindles yesterday. And here's another little tidbit  - those devices, the Kindle Fire and Fire HD, are also... read more Kim-Mai Cutler A New $150M Fund Underscores The Bigger Ambitions of Kushner's Thrive Capital Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital just became yet another of several upstart venture firms that have been able to raise progressively larger funds this year.... read more Drew Olanoff Rumored: Development To Cease For Twitter's Mac Client Here's a piece of Twitter news that would really make me sad. According to former TechCrunch full-time writer guy, MG Siegler, Twitter will cease to support and... read more Peter Ha Contour+2 Action Camera Packs HD Video, Live Streaming Into $400 Package A year later and one hundred dollars cheaper than its predecessor, Seattle-based Contour announced its Contour+2 action camera this week and will be available... read more Josh Constine The Last Big Independent Social Marketer Syncapse Pimps Itself For Acquisition With Analytics Suite Syncapse wants to get bought. All it's well funded competitors -- Buddy Media, Vitrue, Involver, Wildfire -- already have. So today it releases a new analytics... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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