Friday, February 6, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // February 6, 2015

Twitter Confirms Google Firehose Deal To Target Logged Out Users |
Rocket Internet Puts $586M Into Delivery Hero, Buys 9 Other Food Startups |
The Psychology Of Notifications |
The Mac OS X Photos App Represents A New Stage In Apple’s Cross-Platform Evolution |
Product Hunt Wins Best New Startup Of 2014 |
RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy |
Here’s Twitter’s Slowing User Growth In One Chart |
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Today's Top Stories // Feb 6, 2015

Twitter Confirms Google Firehose Deal To Target Logged Out Users

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo today confirmed that Twitter has signed a firehose deal with Google, which will bring tweets back into Google searches, more eyeballs... read more

Rocket Internet Puts $586M Into Delivery Hero, Buys 9 Other Food Startups

Rocket Internet is making the second major consolidation of its global businesses after the German accelerator announced a new food-on-demand group with... read more

The Psychology Of Notifications

In his famed experiments, Ivan Pavlov trained his dogs to associate mealtime with the ring of a bell. Pavlov found he could elicit an involuntary physical... read more

The Mac OS X Photos App Represents A New Stage In Apple’s Cross-Platform Evolution

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Product Hunt Wins Best New Startup Of 2014

Product Hunt, the online community where members submit and vote up the best new tech products, has been taking the industry by storm as founders, investors,... read more

RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy

And there it is; the death knell we all knew would ring out eventually. RadioShack has officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Once a home base to the... read more

Here’s Twitter’s Slowing User Growth In One Chart

Twitter's stock is up around 7 percent after reporting a big financial quarter, beating expectations on both profit and revenue. However, its user growth was... read more

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Gillmor Gang: The Whole Truth

 The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics... read more

CrunchWeek: Apple's Huge Quarter, Snapchat Discover, And Newsweek's Cover Fail

 Today’s episode of CrunchWeek is a very special milestone for us here at TechCrunch, marking the 100th... read more

Hands On With Windows 10

 TechCrunch went hands-on with Windows 10 to show you the best of the latest build of Microsoft’s new... read more

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // February 5, 2015

Microsoft Is Acquiring Calendar App Sunrise For North Of $100 Million |
These Utah College Students Have Millions Of Dollars To Invest In Your Startup |
The Steve Jobs Movie With Seth Rogen And Michael Fassbender Will Open Oct. 9th |
Under Armour Snatches Up Health And Fitness Trackers Endomondo And MyFitnessPal |
Health Insurance Provider Anthem Reports Massive Data Breach |
Microsoft Releases “Universal” Touch-Friendly Office Apps For Windows 10 |
FiftyThree Makes Popular Creativity App ‘Paper’ Free Of Charge |
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Today's Top Stories // Feb 5, 2015

Microsoft Is Acquiring Calendar App Sunrise For North Of $100 Million

Software giant Microsoft is in the process of trying to reinvent itself, and part of that reinvention evidently involves acquiring startups that have created... read more

These Utah College Students Have Millions Of Dollars To Invest In Your Startup

Twenty-one-year-old Dominic Callas is not your typical venture capitalist. The Westminster College student spends 20-30 hours a week sourcing and researching... read more

The Steve Jobs Movie With Seth Rogen And Michael Fassbender Will Open Oct. 9th

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Under Armour Snatches Up Health And Fitness Trackers Endomondo And MyFitnessPal

Endomondo, a social fitness network and publisher of mobile apps that allow users to track their workouts and challenge friends, and health tracker MyFitnessPal... read more

Health Insurance Provider Anthem Reports Massive Data Breach

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Microsoft Releases “Universal” Touch-Friendly Office Apps For Windows 10

Microsoft today released early builds of its Office suite designed for Windows 10, software that is designed to accept touch input and work across tablets and... read more

FiftyThree Makes Popular Creativity App ‘Paper’ Free Of Charge

FiftyThree, maker of the Paper app and the accompanying Pencil stylus for the iPad, is shaking up its strategy by dropping the price of every feature in its app... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: The Whole Truth

 The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics... read more

CrunchWeek: Apple's Huge Quarter, Snapchat Discover, And Newsweek's Cover Fail

 Today’s episode of CrunchWeek is a very special milestone for us here at TechCrunch, marking the 100th... read more

Hands On With Windows 10

 TechCrunch went hands-on with Windows 10 to show you the best of the latest build of Microsoft’s new... read more

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