Top Stories of the Day // July 4, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner and Doug Leone. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 4, 2013 Natasha Lomas Android 'Master Key' Security Hole Puts 99% Of Devices At Risk Of Exploitation Mobile security startup Bluebox Security has unearthed a vulnerability in Android's security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Exploring Earbud Tech That Can Compensate For Specific Fit In Each User's Ear The USPTO is big on Apple patents this morning, with a new application published around earbud technology. Apple's own earbud designs have been mostly... read more Ingrid Lunden eBay Buys 2dehands.be And 2ememain.be In Belgium, Consolidates Classifieds Power In Europe It may be a holiday in the U.S. but eBay never sleeps. Today, the American e-commerce giant announced that it is buying 2dehands.be and 2ememain.be, the two... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Seeks Patent For Waze-Style Crowdsourced Navigation That Could Boost iOS Maps The US Patent Office has just published a new patent application by Apple that integrates crowdsourced traffic data for real-time information about road... read more Josh Constine Here Come The Bespoke Apps: Dolo Is Just For Finding Friends In SF's Dolores Park Apps don't have to be for everyone. Development tools, reduced costs, and the trend of nailing a single use case are spawning a generation of homespun... read more Darrell Etherington Valta Turns To Kickstarter To Fund Home Gadget Energy Management Platform Toronto-based startup Valta is looking for Kickstarter funding to help it bring its remote energy management system to life, in order to put complete control... read more Natasha Lomas SnapKeys Adds A Second Software Keyboard To Its Qwerty-Attacking Arsenal After last month's full launch of its Si Evolution Qwerty alternative, invisible keyboard maker SnapKeys is launching a second keyboard later today -- called Si... read more Victoria Ho Malaysian Taxi App TaxiMonger Expands Coverage Outside Kuala Lumpur To Deal With Ongoing Rivalry read more Catherine Shu Asia's Startups Are Hindered By Confusing And Outdated Laws, Says The Economist Intelligence Unit Asia boosts almost half of the world's two billion Internet users, rapidly growing digital infrastructure and strong mobile penetration. So what's keeping the... read more John Biggs TechCrunch Balkans Steams Through Belgrade And Zagreb, Ljubljana Is Next We have one more stop on the long road from Sofia to Ljubljana and each city has been better than the last. In Belgrade we met some exciting startups including... 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 // July 3, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner and Doug Leone. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 3, 2013 Steve O'Hear Fliike Is An Internet Of Things-Styled Facebook 'Like' Counter For Local Businesses A Facebook phone isn't cool, you know what's cool? An Internet of Things-styled 'Like' counter for local businesses who want to proudly display their Facebook... read more Darrell Etherington Indie Gaming Hit Limbo Brings Its Macabre Black And White Charm To iOS For Americans, the long weekend looms, so it's great timing for the release of Limbo, the indie gaming title from Danish developer Playdead, on Apple's iOS... read more Natasha Lomas The Practical Meter Speeds Up Charging Your Smartphone Over USB The Practical Meter plugs into the USB socket you intend to use to charge your phone and has built-in indicator lights to show how fast the charging connection... read more Catherine Shu YouTube Confirms Renewed VEVO Deal, Takes Stake In Company YouTube confirmed that it has renewed its deal with music video distributor VEVO. Not only does the deal allow YouTube to keep VEVO's videos on its site, but it... read more Ryan Lawler Another Video Ad Network Plans To Go Public, As YuMe Files For $65 Million IPO This was supposed to be the year that all the big video ad networks would begin going public, and it looks like it's starting to come true. Less than a week... read more Ingrid Lunden Mobile Data Traffic To Grow 300% Globally By 2017 Led By Video, Web Use, Says Strategy Analytics With smartphones and tablets replacing PCs as the default computing device for many consumers, so, too, is data traffic shifting from fixed to wireless... read more Catherine Shu Braintree Hits $10B In Annual Payments Processed As It Adds Swedish Game Developer Mojang To Its Client Roster Mojang, the Swedish game developer behind Minecraft, Scrolls and Cobalt, has joined the list of tech companies that use Braintree as a mobile or online payment... read more Sarah Perez Netflix Follows Amazon With Expanded PBS Deal Of Its Own, Including A Couple Exclusives Where go the kids, so go their parents' dollars...at least in the video streaming battle between Netflix and Amazon, that is. Following Amazon's announcement... read more John Biggs The TechCrunch Warsaw Meetup Is Go read more Darrell Etherington MYO Armband Control Device Launches Its Developer Program Thalmic Labs today announced the launch of its MYO armband developer program. Interested developers can apply to become part of the program through the new... 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 // July 2, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner and Doug Leone. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 2, 2013 Sarah Perez We Were The (1000+). Goodbye, Google Reader "We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal... read more Darrell Etherington New Apple Patent Could Finally Take Gadgets Like An iWatch Beyond The Bezel Apple has just been granted a new patent (via AppleInsider) for unique bezel technology that could not only add touch controls to a bezel on a small device... read more Josh Constine Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Releases Hokey Rock Album To Soundtrack Your Pivot (Review) If you're a tech exec who finds Nickelback a bit too edgy, Groupon's former CEO Andrew Mason has just released an album for you. Now available on iTunes and... read more Sarah Perez Flipboard Users' Google Reader Feeds Missing, Transition Taking Longer Than Expected [Update] Flipboard users counting on the social magazine to retain their Google Reader subscriptions after the service's shutdown last night are waking up today to a bit... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Facebook Is Experimenting With Becoming A Mobile Games Publisher read more Darrell Etherington Canon's New 70D DSLR Beefs Up Autofocus, Could Be An Indie Filmmaker's Dream Camera Canon has just revealed its long-awaited 70D DSLR, the successor to the 60D. The 70D fits above the Rebel line in terms of price and specs in Canon's... read more Natasha Lomas Want To Get Bitcoins? This ATM Will Turn Your Banknotes Into Bitcoins Converting the cash in your wallet to Bitcoin is one of the biggest hurdles to getting some skin in the digital crypto currency game. Time was when you had to... read more Catherine Shu Packed With Real-Time Data, Fantasy Trading Site Wall Street Magnate Demystifies The Stock Market Wall Street Magnate is a new site that opens the market to stock trading newbies. The fantasy trading community launched last month and is packed with real-time... read more Ingrid Lunden Gartner: IT Spend Will Hit $3.7 Trillion In 2013; PC Declines Drag On Growth IT spend globally -- from devices through to data center investments and the services that run on them -- it set to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, but that... read more Ingrid Lunden Outerwall (Formerly Coinstar) Buys ecoATM For $350M In Cash To Expand Into Device Recycling Kiosks Some changes underway in the automated retail space: Outerwall, operators of the Coinstar coin-counting kiosks and the Redbox disc and game distribution... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein GOP Maj. Leader Eric Cantor On NSA And Investing In Small Government Technology The House Republican Majority Leader and Congressman with the most charming southern drawl, Eric Cantor, sat down with me at The Atlantic's Aspen Ideas… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // July 1, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Marc Benioff, Jeff Weiner and Doug Leone. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 1, 2013 Dan Kaplan Will Apple Sideline Siri Before She Kills Google? Editor's note: Dan Kaplan is a freelance Content Strategist and armchair futurist. He has worked in marketing for Asana, Twilio and Salesforce.... read more Ingrid Lunden Android, Led By Samsung, Continues To Storm The Smartphone Market, Pushing A Global 70% Market Share Google is grappling with an ongoing antitrust case in Europe over its online search business, and if its rivals have anything to do with it, that might extend... read more Natasha Lomas First Firefox OS Smartphone Has Arrived: Telefonica Prices ZTE Open At $90 In Spain, Latin American Markets Coming Soon read more Derek Andersen Build A Company That Attracts The Next Steve Jobs read more Natasha Lomas Delivery Hero Tops Up Series D With $30M As Its Global Take-Out Service Heads For Profit While others in the online food delivery space stumble, Delivery Hero is helping itself to some fresh financing today: the online take-out ordering service has... read more Ingrid Lunden Groupon Goes For The High End With Groupon Reserve For Fancy Meals, Hotels, And More Groupon's built up a reputation for a soup-to-nuts approach to bargains for goods and services, with deals for usually-expensive meals pitted against offers for... read more Billy Gallagher Mark Zuckerberg 'Likes' SF LGBT Pride As Tech Companies Publicly Celebrate Equal Rights Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very... read more Steve O'Hear Apple Trademarks iWatch Name In Japan -- Keep Calm And Carry On Let the speculation merry-go-round continue. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple has trademarked the name iWatch -- again. This time Japan is the... read more Steve O'Hear Investors Are Wont To Follow -- Data From Seedrs Shows Equity-Based Crowdfunding Is No Different In a blog post published today, Seedrs, the UK site that makes it easy to invest in early-stage startups, sheds some light on what it takes to reach the... read more Ingrid Lunden To Drive More Clicks, Twitter Is Testing A Popular Tweets History Feature [Update: It's Gone] A little over a year ago, Twitter kicked off an initiative to experiment with different ways of making tweets more interactive -- a strategy that has brought us... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein Why Obama Was Never Going To Be A Civil Liberties Champion Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the Democratic party that prioritizes the… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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