Top Stories of the Day // February 22, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 22, 2013 Drew Olanoff RedBus Continues To Dominate In India, But That's Not What Makes Them Special read more Jordan Crook Alleged Galaxy S IV Cases Sprout Up On The Web A handful of cases seem to have leaked out for the forthcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone from Samsung. Since the phone has not yet been announced, we should... read more Romain Dillet Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms] Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (€59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51... read more Sarah Perez The Best Platform For Online Discussion Doesn't Exist Yet Blog commenting systems are bizarre, broken and dated. TechCrunch recently switched from Facebook Comments to Livefyre - a change that, for the record, I had no... read more Josh Constine Facebook Admits Critical Bugs Caused Page Reach To Be Misreported For Months While trying to speed up its iOS and Android apps, Facebook accidentally stripped out too much data about news feed posts by Pages. This caused bugs in Page... read more Darrell Etherington Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth In a new report from mobile ad platform Millennial Media, the company compiles its data on mobile device share across its network for all of 2012, revealing... read more Gregory Ferenstein Study: Online Courses May Be The Worst For Minorities And At-Risk Students read more Catherine Shu Zendesk Hacking Affects Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter Users Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that affects users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. Zendesk said that the hacker... read more Darrell Etherington Nokia To Go Downmarket At MWC To Better Compete With Huawei And ZTE, Report Says Windows Phone 8 is Nokia's big play for the future, but as a result of focusing on those devices and their higher-end target market, the company is giving up... read more Catherine Shu Foxconn Hiring Freeze May Be Because Of Robots, Not Slack iPhone 5 Demand Apple's shares were hit after investors worried that a hiring freeze at Foxconn's China plants is related to slowing iPhone 5 sales. Foxconn suspended... 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 // February 21, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 21, 2013 Darrell Etherington PS4 Is Sony's Last Stand, And It's Wasting It On A Tired Strategy That Ignores How The Gamer Is Changing Sony's PlayStation 4 made its grand debut today in a presentation with all the theatrical flair to be expected from an electronics company that's also a media... read more Catherine Shu Google Reportedly In Talks With Warby Parker To Design Stylish Google Glass Frames Google is reportedly in talks with Warby Parker to make glasses that look less like Geordi La Forge's eyewear and more like something a style-conscious person... read more Darrell Etherington New Google Glass Patent Is The Most Comprehensive Yet For Google's Face-Based Wearable Computer The USPTO has published a new patent application today from Google, which describes in comprehensive detail the complete system that would go on to become... read more Darrell Etherington This New Apple Patent Could Be The Design For A Radical iWatch With A Wraparound Display Apple has a number of patents on wearable computing, but a new application spotted by AppleInsider blends some old and some new tech to provide a vision of what... read more Rip Empson Coursera Adds 29 Schools, 90 Courses And 3 New Languages To Its Online Learning Platform read more Sarah Perez Jumio Brings Identity Verification To Mobile Apps - Just Hold Up Your ID To The Camera Jumio, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed mobile payments and ID-scanning startup, is today releasing a new version of its Netverify product designed... read more Rip Empson Online Learning Platform, edX, Goes International With The Addition Of Six New Schools When it comes to online education and massive open online courses (a.k.a. "MOOCs"), Udacity and Coursera have stolen most of the attention. But they aren't the... read more Romain Dillet Tesla Shares Drop 9.7% As It Reports Another Quarterly Loss Shortly after market opening, Tesla shares (NASDAQ:TSLA) dropped 9.68 percent to 34.81 in the wake of yesterday's earnings. The company disappointed investors... read more Catherine Shu BillPin Wants To Save Friendships By Making Social Expense Sharing Quick And Easy Out of all the problems that friends run into, money is one of the stickiest. There's nothing that can degrade a relationship in quite the same way as an... read more Darrell Etherington Canon Launching Its MREAL Headset March 1st, Will Allow Designers To Prototype Using Augmented Reality Canon announced the launch of its MREAL system for "mixed reality" today, which includes a head-mounted display that allows wearers to combine virtual objects... 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 // February 20, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 20, 2013 Matt Burns Google Finally Shows Off Google Glass UI, Announces #ifihadglass Purchase Campaign Google is slowly pulling down Google Glass' veil of secrecy. With each announcement, the company reveals a bit more of its secrets. This time around, the video... read more Anthony Ha Yahoo Rolls Out A More Personalized And Interactive Front Page Yahoo plans to start rolling out a new front page at Yahoo.com starting right now, with the goal of making the new experience available to everyone in the... read more Natasha Lomas iPhone Brand Outshines Samsung's Galaxy As iPhone 5 Becomes Best-Selling Smartphone Globally In Q4, iPhone 4S 2nd -- Analyst Apple's iPhone 5 became the best selling smartphone globally in Q4, pushing past Samsung's flagship Galaxy SIII, according to research by Strategy Analytics.... read more Mike Butcher TechCrunch Mobile Barcelona Meetup 2013 — Here Are Our Shortlisted Startups Barcelona is coming alive with preparations for Mobile World Congress and we are pumped about the super-international TechCrunch Mobile Barcelona meetup in the... read more Ingrid Lunden EE, Three, BT, Vodafone, O2 All Win 4G Spectrum In The UK, But £2.3B In Bids Falls Short Of The £3.5B Expected Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has just announced the winners of the UK spectrum auctions for 4G spectrum on the low-frequency 800MHz band, used for... read more Jordan Crook Square Debuts "Business In A Box", A Turnkey Point Of Sale Experience For $299 Despite a rocky start to the year with the sudden departure of COO Keith Rabois, Square is still making a huge push to sign on new businesses on the Square... read more Ingrid Lunden U.S. Accelerator TechStars Goes Global, Merges With UK's Springboard And Opens Its First International Outpost In London. 'Something Feels Different Now' Says Cohen A big step forward today for TechStars, the Boulder-based uber-accelerator founded in 2006 that has set up operations mentoring and funding startups in six... read more Victoria Ho Yota To Mass Produce E-ink Phone In Singapore read more Ingrid Lunden Pearson Launches Catalyst, An EdTech Incubator That The Publisher Hopes Will Give It More Startup Mojo On the heels of Kaplan linking up with TechStars to offer an edtech accelerator program in New York City, educational publishing giant Pearson is also wading... read more Anthony Ha Today We Hit Peak Hack (Or So I Hope) Can we talk about how ridiculous today was?... 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 // February 19, 2013

	TechCrunch Startup Battlefield NYC competition deadline: 2/25. Click here to apply. Today's Top Stories // Feb 19, 2013 Darrell Etherington HTC One Final Press Images Leak Ahead Of Today's Launch Event HTC is holding a special event in NYC today at 10 AM, and it's all but guaranteed that the company will be showing off its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC... read more Romain Dillet Sunrise Brilliantly Redefines Calendar Apps On iOS Meet Sunrise, the calendar app that will replace every calendar app that you've tried so far. It's the best calendar you'll ever use. Behind its apparent... read more Chris Velazco After A Rough 2012, HTC Fires Back At Smartphone Rivals With The HTC One There's little question that HTC wishes 2012 had gone just a little better -- the beleaguered smartphone company posted awfully disappointing results quarter... read more John Biggs 3D-Printing Pen, The 3Doodler, Reaches Kickstarter Funding Goal In Hours 3D printing can be complex or, if the 3Doodler is any indication, wildly simple. Built by a team of toy designers, the 3Doodler is a pen with a simple plastic... read more Jordan Crook Live From HTC's Pivotal Unveiling Of The HTC One We're sitting patiently at HTC's NYC Media Event at this very moment, itching in anticipating for what we expect to be the official debut of the HTC One.... read more Frederic Lardinois Microsoft Takes Outlook.com Out Of Preview, Starts Migrating Hotmail Users And Launches "Massive" New Marketing Campaign Six months after its initial launch, the preview of Outlook.com, Microsoft's free webmail service that is meant to replace the aging Hotmail brand and design,... read more Rip Empson Y Combinator-Backed Zenefits Gives Small Businesses A One-Stop Shop For Finding And Managing Employee Benefits For startups and small businesses, providing and managing benefits can be a huge headache. In the early stages, this responsibility generally falls into the... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents Extremely Accurate, Localized Haptic Feedback For Multitouch Devices When haptic feedback first became a buzzword of the mobile phone industry nearly half a decade ago, many imagined keyboards that would rise up out of the glass... read more Victoria Ho PayPal Stops Personal Payments In Singapore read more Scott Merrill Canonical Unveils Ubuntu For Tablets, Developer Preview Available For Nexus Devices On Thursday Hot on the heels of the announcement of Ubuntu on phones comes Canonical's latest announcement: Ubuntu on tablets. This is, in many ways, a no-brainer: Android... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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