Top Stories of the Day // January 4, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Jan 4, 2013 Gregory Ferenstein Teen Brags On Facebook About Drunk Driving, Gets Arrested Police made an example out of a teenager from Oregon who boasted about driving drunk on Facebook. "Drivin drunk... classic ;) but whoever's vehicle i hit i am... read more Darrell Etherington The iPhone 5 Gets A Bumper It Can Be Proud Of Via New Kickstarter Campaign The iPhone 5 delivered a lot of new things vs. its predecessors, but it also marked Apple exit from the bumper game; unlike with the iPhone 4 and 4S, Apple... read more Ingrid Lunden Down And Out: Spotify Halts Its Music Download Service In Europe, But How Many Were Using It Anyway? [Updated] Spotify has made a mark in the music business with its hugely popular music streaming service, now with 20 million subscribers, 5 million of which pay monthly... read more Alex Williams Forrester Report Says Apple Will Sell $39 Billion In Macs and iPads To Businesses Over Next 2 Years Forrester Research is reporting that Apple will sell $39 billion in Macs and iPads through 2014.... read more Natasha Lomas Strategy Analytics: Samsung To Extend Lead Over Apple's iPhone In 2013, And Take 33% Of Global Smartphone Market Samsung will increase its lead over Apple in the smartphone space this year, according to analyst Strategy Analytics. Speaking to Reuters, the analyst said it... read more Ingrid Lunden Early Studies Show Facebook Mobile App Install Ads Perform Well For Devs, Indicating Big Revenue Potential read more Rip Empson Cisco And NXP Throw Their Weight Behind Cohda Wireless To Bring The Internet Of Things To Your Car Looking backwards, the automobile of today looks almost superintelligent. While some of us may have expected (read: hoped for) the flying car by 2013 and, sure,... read more Rip Empson Tinder: Finding Traction On Campuses, IAC's New Dating App Makes It Easy To Break The Ice Regardless of what you think about digital dating sites, they encourage us to close our computers and get out there and meet new people. In short, they bring... read more Rip Empson Now 2.5M Users Strong, Crowdsourced Learning Platform StudyBlue Grabs $9M To Help Students Study On The Go Founded in 2009, Wisconsin-based startup StudyBlue set out with a simple and straightforward mission: Leverage technology to help students improve their... read more Natasha Lomas Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet... 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 // January 3, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Jan 3, 2013 Darrell Etherington T-Mobile Introduces The BlackBerry Curve 9315, The Most Ridiculous Deal In Mobile Phones T-Mobile has just announced the BlackBerry Curve 9315, which will be available January 23 for the price of $49 on a 2-year agreement. They're touting it as the... read more Kim-Mai Cutler A Little Sleuthing Leads Nexus 4 Enthusiasts To Estimate About 400K In Sales Of The Device read more Josh Constine Canonical's Ubuntu Phone OS Aims To Steal Everyone's Customization-Loving Customers The odds are stacked against Canonical's late-comer Ubuntu phone OS. But by seducing hardcore mobile users who love to customize, it could could box out... read more Darrell Etherington Microsoft Wins Out Over Apple And Google, Acquires Home Entertainment And Automation Company R2 Studios Late last year, it was reported that Microsoft, Apple and Google were all speaking to id8 Group R2 Studios Inc. about a potential acquisition of the startup,... read more Anthony Ha Andrew Sullivan's Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the... read more Anthony Ha Leap Motion Raises $30M More For Its Gesture-Based Controller, Announces Bundling Deal With Asus Leap Motion is announcing today that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Buckwald told me that the company is still... read more Alex Williams GitHub Replaces Copy And Paste With ZeroClipboard No more copy and paste -- GitHub has launched a new feature today called ZeroClipboard, a library for copying text to the clipboard that uses an invisible Adobe... read more Romain Dillet Still Anxiously Refreshing Google Play For A Nexus 4? T-Mobile Stores Will Carry It In January According to TmoNews, the Google Nexus 4 should become available in all T-Mobile stores starting in January. It could indicate that Google is slowly resolving... read more Matt Burns CES 2013: This Will Be The Year Of The Gadget Startup "Microsoft Bows Out Of CES 2013" read the headline. It was December 21, 2011, several short weeks before CES 2012 and Microsoft just dropped a bomb: Microsoft... read more Josh Constine Pinterest Acquires And Will Shut Down Recipe Discovery Site Punchfork Pinterest has just made its first acquisition -- the two year and a half year old recipe discovery and sharing site Punchfork. Rather than operate it... 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 // January 2, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Jan 2, 2013 Michael Arrington The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! read more Alexia Tsotsis A Secret Is No Longer A Secret Once You Tell The Internet Sure the headline of this post is just common sense, but I feel like we all need a reminder this holiday season, especially as all the salacious photo evidence... read more Catherine Shu References To iPhone 6, iOS 7 Reportedly Seen in Developer Log The iPhone 5 just finished its global rollout, but it looks like leaks about the iPhone 6 are already starting to surface. An iOS developer saw a device named... read more Alexia Tsotsis Car Rental Company Avis To Buy Zipcar For $500 Million Car rental company Avis has announced its intent to scoop up carsharing company Zipcar for $500 million, with the acquisition expected to close in the Spring of... read more Mike Butcher Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes There can be no doubt that one of the hottest startups of the last couple of years has been social sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Not surprising in an era when -... read more Ingrid Lunden Oh, The Places Tumblr Can Go read more Ingrid Lunden Not So Fast: Avis' Proposed $500M Zipcar Buy Being Investigated For Short-Changing Shareholders read more Catherine Shu Samsung CEO Lee Kun Hee Warns Employees About Increased Competition Samsung Electronics may currently be the world's leader in sales of mobile phones and TVs, but chairman Lee Kun Hee has told employees that the Korean company... read more Rip Empson The Best Health And Fitness Apps For Your New Year's Needs The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past -- its... read more Darrell Etherington New Magnetic Keyboard/Gamepad Case Combo Gives Your iPhone 5 Super Thin Snap-On Input Devices Phone5Mod today unveiled a new case accessory that gives the iPhone 5 a physical keyboard and video game controller all in a super-slim magnetic package.... 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 // January 1, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Jan 1, 2013 Matt Burns The Top 25 TechCrunch Posts From 2012 Twenty twelve was a big year for tech news. Facebook went public, Instagram was purchased for $1B, and Apple released rehashes of previous products. But that's... read more Matt Burns Per These Leaked CES Pics, Sony Is Actually Capable Of Making A Memorable Android Phone Quick! What's Sony's current high-end Android phone? Anyone? Yeah, Sony has a problem with brand recognition, one it likely hopes will be resolved with a big... read more Alex Williams The 2013 Enterprise Guide For Dummies The enterprise -- I get a sideways glance when I tell people it's what I cover. People want to know why I find it so compelling. They ask because truly they... read more Steve O'Hear Legimi Wants To Be The 'Spotify For Ebooks' With A Business Model That Relies On You Reading Less Legimi is definitely a startup I'll be watching closely in 2013. Put simply, it aims to be the 'Spotify for ebooks,' in which for a monthly subscription, users... read more Jordan Crook Le Parcel, Because Tampons And Monthly Subscription Services Go Hand In Hand If ever there was a consumer product suited for monthly subscriptions, it would be tampons. It only takes one midnight trip to the pharmacy for you to agree... read more Sarah Perez New Year's Resolutions, Internet-Style It's that time of the year again: it's time to promise to go on diets we won't stick to, miles we won't run, and projects we won't complete. Maybe, this year,... read more Catherine Shu Apple Partners With Local Publishers To Launch EBook Service In Japan Apple will launch an ebook service in Japan fueled with content from top local publishers, according to Japanese financial publication Nikkei (via The Digital... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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