Top Stories of the Day // August 7, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in September and the countdown is on: less than 2 weeks left to get Early Bird tickets. Register now! Today's Top Stories // Aug 7, 2013 Catherine Shu Yahoo Will Update Its Logo! Yahoo unveiled a new logo today with a sans serif font similar to the ones used in other companies' recent image overhauls, but keeps its purple color and... read more Victoria Ho Voice Messaging Comes To Whatsapp read more alexjameswilhelm I Built A Windows Phone App And It Freaking Sucks read more Gregory Ferenstein How Obama Can Say "We Don't Have A Domestic Spying Program" Without Lying read more Anthony Ha AOL Is Acquiring Video Ad Platform Adap.tv For $405M TechCrunch-owner AOL just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire video advertising platform Adap.tv in a deal that should be worth a total of... read more Darrell Etherington Equip Your Home Drone Build With Super-Accurate GPS Thanks To The Piksi On Kickstarter Most GPS is a relatively imprecise tool, honing in on your location to within around a few meters, but new Kickstarter project Piksi aims to provide accuracy... read more Frederic Lardinois Fast-Growing Cloud Hosting Service Digital Ocean Raises $3.2M Seed Round Led By IA Ventures To Build Out Its Infrastructure Digital Ocean, one of the fastest-growing cloud hosting services around, today announced that it has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by IA Ventures, with... read more Sarah Perez Amazon Appstore Now Open To Web Apps, With One-Click In-App Purchases In Tow Amazon today is announcing a significant expansion to its mobile application marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, which will now be open to developers of HTML5 web... read more Darrell Etherington Facebook Graph Search Out For All U.S. English Users, Hiding Timeline Search By Name Setting Dies Today Facebook's Graph Search, the tool that lets you search in plain language across information shared by friends and anyone on Facebook to find stuff like "People... read more Victoria Ho Design Competition Model Is Working For 99designs, Especially In Asia 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 // August 6, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in September and the countdown is on: less than 2 weeks left to get Early Bird tickets. Register now! Today's Top Stories // Aug 6, 2013 MG Siegler While We're Trying To Follow His Game Of Checkers, Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess A few years ago, I just didn't get it. I couldn't for the life of me understand how a company like Amazon could operate, let alone flourish. I spent the... read more Darrell Etherington Amazon Launches Art Store, Putting Multi-Million Dollar Paintings In Your Virtual Shopping Cart Amazon has launched a new online fine art store, as an extension of its marketplace partner offerings. The store offers access to more than 40,000 works,... read more Darrell Etherington Samsung's Smartwatch Shows Up In Trademark Filing As "Galaxy Gear" Samsung filed a newly-discovered trademark with the USPTO dated July 29 for the Galaxy Gear, a name for "wearable digital electronic devices in the form of a... read more Darrell Etherington Samsung Teases BBM For Android As BlackBerry Further Telegraphs Its BBM Platform Play Samsung is using the upcoming launch of BBM for Android to promote its Galaxy devices, Samsung App Store and Messaging Hub in a new release targeting the... read more John Biggs TC Alum Drew Olanoff Talks To The Conan O'Brien Show About Google Glass It's with a tear in my eye that I share this little snippet with you - our own Drew Olanoff, who now works at Yahoo! with most of the rest of Palo Alto, talking... read more Catherine Shu Snapzoom and Shuttr Allow Smartphones To Take Clear High-Resolution Macro and Long-Distance Shots Last week I wrote about Shuttr, the tiny Bluetooth remote control for smartphones that lets users take better self-portraits and group shots. But Shuttr can be... read more Ansel Halliburton YC-Backed SimpleLegal Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning SimpleLegal's system ingests invoices and parses each line item into its database. Natural language processing systems figure out who billed what and for how... read more Mike Butcher Guardius Is A New App For Finding The Add-Ons That Make Your Browser Crawl Browser plug-ins, toolbars and add-ons have proliferated over the years. While many are useful, others seem to become trojan horses, allowing the original... read more Anthony Ha Unroll.me, A Startup That Battles Junk Mail And Manages Subscriptions, Says It Has 100K+ Subscribers We've written about Unroll.me, a service that helps users manage their junk email and subscriptions, before — most recently when it was redesigned in April.... read more Anthony Ha Engagor Raises $2.6M To Bring Its Social Media Management Tools To The US Engagor, a Belgian startup that offers tools for large brands to manage their presence on social media, is announcing that it has raised $2.6 million in Series... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Don't Miss Funding and Acquisition News from CrunchBase As a member of the TechCrunch community we know you're familiar with CrunchBase, the most comprehensive startup database in the world, so we wanted to introduce you to CrunchBase newsletters which are full of valuable data including funding news, acquisition alerts, and startup events. Check out today's content below and sign up now to get tomorrow's news delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to CrunchBase Newsletters   August 06, 2013 Cambridge-based, health benefits management platform Maxwell Health raised a $2 million series A round led by Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from Lerer Ventures, Vaizra Investments, BoxGroup, and TiE Angels, among others. Maxwell Health is a no cost, no paperwork service. Founded in 2012, Maxwell Health has raised $3.8 million.   Belgium-based, social media management platform Engagor raised a $2.6 million series A led by Hummingbird Ventures. Engagor has the capability of tracking 180 different languages. Engagor currently works with PepsiCo, Volvo, McDonald's and IKEA.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 33 rounds and $380 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Apexigen $20MM / Series-A Investors — Sycamore Ventures Themes Investment Partners Amkey Ventures China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) WSR Capital Defense.net $9.5MM / Series-A Investors — Bessemer Venture Partners Freeosk Inc $6.0MM / Series-A Investors — Beringea Private Equity First Analysis UrbanBound $5.0MM / Series-A Founders — Michael Krasman Investors — Grotech Ventures StarVest Partners Engagor Social media management tool $2.6MM / Series-A Founders — Folke Lemaitre Jeroen Fossaert Investors — Hummingbird Ventures Maxwell Health Simplifying employee benefits $2.0MM / Series-A Founders — Veer Gidwaney Investors — Lerer Ventures Tribeca Venture Partners Vaizra Seed Fund TiE Angels More Fundings (27)   Top Acquisitions HUB International acquired by Hellman & Friedman for $4.4B Finance/Venture ProFibrix acquired by The Medicines Company for $240MM BioTech TrainSignal acquired by PluralSight for $24MM Software BrightNest acquired by Angie's List for $2.7MM Consumer Web Grab Media acquired by blinkx Advertising ProfitPoint acquired by Clutch eCommerce Newsweek acquired by IBT Media News/Media   Did we miss anything? CrunchBase had 5193 edits since our last email and sometimes that isn't enough to catch everything that goes on. Sign up for CrunchBase and help us make things more awesome! Contribute to CrunchBase   If you would no longer like to receive email from CrunchBase, you can unsubscribe with one click here.   410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2013 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms of Service

Top Stories of the Day // August 5, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in September and the countdown is on: only 2 weeks left to get Early Bird tickets. Register now! Today's Top Stories // Aug 5, 2013 Jordan Crook Samsung Invite Promises Next Galaxy Will Show Its Giant Face On September 4 What is usually a dreaded Monday morning inbox was today brightened by an invitation (below) from Samsung to see "the next Galaxy" unveiled in Berlin on... read more Frederic Lardinois Who Will Disrupt Real Estate? I don't even want to imagine what looking for a house was like in the 80s. Over the last few years, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others have done a lot to make... read more Natasha Lomas OFF Pocket Is A Privacy Pouch For Your Phone That Blocks Cellular, Wi-Fi, GPS To Defy Spies The OFF Pocket is the latest privacy accessory from the creator of the spy-drone blocking stealth hoodie. It's a water-resistant metal-fabric pouch designed to... read more alexjameswilhelm Lync, Azure, Office 365 And The Shifting Center Of Microsoft's Gravity read more Ryan Lawler FlightCar Offers Users Up To $400 To Rent Their Cars Out For A Whole Month FlightCar has launched a new program in which it keeps users' cars for a month at a time and rent them out to travelers. The program, called FlightCar Monthly,... read more Steve O'Hear Rocket's Africa Internet Holding Launches Hotel Booking Site Jovago To Put The Heat On Local Players It's often said that the question, 'what if Google launches something similar?', is the kind of thing that keeps entrepreneurs up at night. But if you're a... read more Jon Evans What Happens At Def Con Stays With Us All There's nothing like attendance at the annual Black Hat and DefCon security/hacker conferences to hike your paranoia into the red zone and keep it there... read more John Biggs LG Is Looking To Buy Some Coverage For Its New Phone As the trend towards the convergence of journalism and marketing marches ever onward today we celebrate LG's efforts to buy press for their new phone, the LG... read more Ryan Lawler TV Expert: Time Warner Cable-CBS Blackout To Result In 'Best Of All Possible Worlds' For Cable Subscribers Subscribers to Time Warner Cable might not be able to watch CBS shows over the next few weeks, as a result of the latest contract fallout between a network and... read more Ingrid Lunden LinkedIn Now Lets Jobseekers Apply For Positions Directly Via Its Mobile Apps Last month, LinkedIn introduced the ability for users of its social network for the working world to search for jobs via its iOS and Android mobile apps. Now it... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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