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Top Stories of the Day // November 6, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 6, 2013

Apple Wants You To Stand In Line

Given the choice between locating a brand new Apple iPhone or iPad days after release or finding a pin in a haystack, I'd probably choose to go pin hunting.... read more

New App Lets You Unlock Your Mac By Knocking On Your iPhone

Can your mobile phone become a replacement for manually typing in a password? That's the promise of a new application called Knock, launching today, which uses... read more

Inside Jobs: How Pinterest’s Top Engineering Exec Really Works

We in the tech press are great at covering what it's like to be a startup founder. But the world does not live by entrepreneurs alone. One big reason that... read more

Microsoft’s Hardware Team Went Through Nearly 200 Controller Designs For Its New Xbox One Console

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Tesla Shares Drop On Smaller Than Predicted Loss, Company Cites Production Constraints

Tesla's share price is higher than makes any logical sense, given the number of cars it makes and sells, but the stock value got a little bit of a real-world... read more

Apple Employs ‘Warrant Canary’ To Warn Users Of Future Compliance With Patriot Act Info Requests

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Backed By Sequoia, Zomato Closes $37M Series D To Expand Its Restaurant Discovery Service Internationally

Zomato wants to eat Yelp's lunch. The Indian restaurant discovery service has been chipping away at the space since 2008, mostly in its home market. Today it's... read more

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Inside Jobs: How Pinterest's Top Engineering Exec Really Works

We in the tech press are great at covering what it's like to be a startup founder. But the world does not live... read more

Founder Stories: 10gen's Dwight Merriman On His Own Style Of Serial Entrepreneurship

There are founders, and then there are founders. Dwight Merriman is a rare breed of founder. A serial entrepreneur... read more

Keen On… Amazon: What Startup Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Ever Innovative Jeff Bezos

While Jeff Bezos' wife, McKenzie, only gave Brad Stone's new book about Amazon one star, most critics have been... read more

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // November 5, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 5, 2013

Apple Patents Home Automation Technology That Adjusts Settings Based On Device Location

Apple has just been granted a new patent (via AppleInsider) which describes a very comprehensive system for controlling connected home devices. The elaborate... read more

Apple’s iPad Air Cost-To-Build Estimated At Less Than iPad 3 At Launch

Apple has released its iPad Air, and while we don't yet know how many it sold during opening weekend (it's likely waiting to reveal launch numbers until the... read more

Google Launches Helpouts, Paid Video Chats With Experts To Address Whatever Is Bothering You Right Now

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Lady Gaga Splits From Manager And Rising Tech Investor Troy Carter

Troy Carter has been making a name for himself in tech thanks to investments in Uber, Spotify, and Dropbox, but his biggest tie to the music industry has just... read more

Dropbox Snatches Up Sold, The Service That Simplifies Selling Online, To Help It Build A New Mystery Commerce Product

Sold launched early this year with a plan to help remove some of the frustration from selling online. Debuting on the iPhone before moving to Android in... read more

The Three Reasons Twitter Didn’t Sell To Facebook

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Jeff Bezos’ Wife And Co-Workers Call Out Brad Stone’s Amazon Book As Inaccurate…On Amazon

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Gillmor Gang: Dynamic Clusters

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — move further and... read more

Gillmor Gang Live 11.01.13 (TCTV)

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session... read more

Ask A VC: AngelPad's Thomas Korte On NYC Expansion, The Incubator's New $7M Funding Round And More

In this week's special episode of Ask A VC from Disrupt Europe in Berlin, Germany, AngelPad founder and former... read more

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Monday, November 4, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // November 4, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 4, 2013

iPad Air Adoption 5X That Of iPad 4 After Opening Weekend, Says Fiksu

Apple may indeed have attracted a much broader audience of upgraders for its redesigned 9.7-inch iPad versus last year, according to new early data from mobile... read more

YouTube Music Awards Were Chaos You’ll Never See On TV

Can YouTube create live content that inspires watercooler zeitgeist moments like television? Google's giving it a shot with the YouTube Music Awards, a... read more

Virgin America Makes A Safety Video That’s Now A YouTube Hit

Last week, Virgin America launched of all things, a safety video that has become a YouTube hit with now more than 4 million views. It's a musical that makes... read more

BlackBerry Takes $1B Investment From Fairfax, Others, Replaces CEO Thorsten Heins

BlackBerry is replacing its CEO and some of its board of directors, according to official PR this morning. The push to replace CEO Thorsten Heins comes as... read more

Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter’s Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven

In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And it's doing it with decisions based... read more

eBay CEO John Donahoe Is Bullish On Digital Currency, And He’s Keeping Tabs On Bitcoin

There's no doubt that Bitcoin is getting plenty of attention these days -- we've seen folks like the Winklevoss Twins and Chamath Palihapitiya throw their... read more

Pixelstick Takes Your Long Exposure Photography To A Trippy New Level

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Gillmor Gang: Dynamic Clusters

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — move further and... read more

Gillmor Gang Live 11.01.13 (TCTV)

Gillmor Gang - John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session... read more

Ask A VC: AngelPad's Thomas Korte On NYC Expansion, The Incubator's New $7M Funding Round And More

In this week's special episode of Ask A VC from Disrupt Europe in Berlin, Germany, AngelPad founder and former... read more

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