Monday, March 25, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 25, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 25, 2013

Nintendo Amazingly Gets Worse At Marketing Just In Time For Plummeting Wii U Sales

Perhaps poor marketing is holding back Wii U sales for Nintendo. As Spike TV's GTTV host Geoff Keighley noted on Twitter, a new campaign from Nintendo is using... read more

What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back?

If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google... read more

Oracle Is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals

Something is seriously wrong in Larry Land. Oracle does not command absolute control like it once did. You can see what is happening pretty clearly when you... read more

Yahoo! Continues To Attack Mobile, Buys News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly, App Will Close

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Presefy Lets You Control Presentations With Your Phone, No Software Required

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Michael Dell May Lose Control Of PC Maker After Two Competing Buyout Bids Emerge

Dell's board is looking at two surprise takeover bids from Blackstone Group and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, reports Reuters citing sources close... read more

Who Needs Original Content? OUYA To Launch With Nintendo 64, SNES And NES Emulation Support

The OUYA Android-based gaming console is getting ready for its debut: the stated beginning shipping date for Kickstarter backers is March 28. At launch, it sill... read more

HTC Will Start Being More Vocal About Its Brilliance, Confirms Camera Supply Is Behind HTC One Delay

HTC has revealed that it will finally drop the frankly stupid "Quietly Brilliant" tagline it has been using for the past few years, the WSJ reports, with... read more

Roll Up, Roll Up! Startups From Brazil, India And Israel, Be A Part Of Disrupt NY 2013

We're fast approaching Disrupt NY, TechCrunch's big conference in the Big Apple taking place April 29-May 1 at the Manhattan Center. This year's event promises... read more

Filipino Accelerator IdeaSpace Picks Country's Top 20 Tech Startups

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 22, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 22, 2013

Watch Nokia's Stephen Elop Lob Someone Else's iPhone On The Floor, Promise To Replace It

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is a man with a mission: to try to drum up interest in the company's Windows Phone line of Lumia smartphones in a market saturated with... read more

Finally, Someone Figured Out How To Use Vine

Will Sasso, it is said, is an actor. If you were to, say, look for all of his Vines, you would also discover that this is the only man in the entire universe to... read more

Watch Google's Sergey Brin Talk About The Emasculating Smartphone And Google Glass

Google co-founder Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED Conference late in February, delivering a talk about Google Glass in which he dropped his now infamous... read more

LIFX Smart Bulb Opens Up Second Batch Of 100K Pre-Orders, Demos Gesture-Based Dimming

Australian hardware startup and Kickstarter success story LIFX has good news for people who missed out on backing the initial project: it's opening up a second... read more

Google Rumored To Be Making A Smartwatch, Too

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Five Out Of Six Game Of Thrones Cast Members Prefer The iPhone To Android

TechCrunch was lucky enough to interview several of the Game of Thrones cast members before the San Francisco screening of its Season 3 Premiere. Since we work... read more

This $150,000 Mechanical Watch Is Really A Weather Station

Sensor-laden watches that electronically measure the temperature, barometric pressure, and magnetic north are fairly cheap. A nice Casio can be had for about... read more

Personal Assistant App Sherpa Raises $1.6M

Sherpa, a personal assistant app that launched initially in the Spanish-speaking world, just announced that it has raised $1.7 million in funding from... read more

Tokyo-Based Voyagin Gives Travelers A More Up-Close And Offbeat Look At Asian Cities

For many travelers, their sense of adventure is only stymied by language barriers. With its roster of offbeat activities, however, travel site Voyagin seeks to... read more

LG Is Also Said To Be Building A Smartwatch And Google Glass Competitor, As Is Everyone

If you're looking for a smartwatch in the next few years, you likely won't want for choice. A new report pegs LG as developing its own take on the new category,... read more

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 21, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 21, 2013

Apple Patents iPhone Drop Protection Mechanisms That Are Built Right Into The Device

A new Apple patent filing describes a variety of methods to protect a dropped iPhone during a fall, lessening damage through a number of clever systems. The... read more

How The Internet Is Erasing The Religious Right's Political Power

The religious right isn't having a good year: the new Republican National Committee roadmap almost entirely excludes religious issues, a majority of young... read more

Google's Play Store Android App May Soon Get Another Facelift

Google's been awfully busy these past few weeks, but it seems that between sunsetting Reader (and pissing off most of the internet in the process) and rolling... read more

To Improve Conversations, Facebook Will Launch A Reply Feature And Most Active Threads On Pages And Popular Profiles

Facebook is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Up to now,... read more

U.S. Department Of Defense Reportedly Planning To Buy 650,000 iOS Devices After Nixing BB10 To Cut Costs

The U.S. Department of Defense will order 650,000 iOS devices to replace older BlackBerry devices that are incompatible with the new BlackBerry 10 operating... read more

Google's Eric Schmidt Says The Ball Is In Apple's Court For Google Now On iPhone And iPad

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was on stage today at the Google Big Tent Summit in India, and he discussed a range of topics, including Google Now.... read more

Canon Unveils World's Smallest DSLR, The SL1, Along With Barely Updated T5i Entry-Level Rebel

Canon has indeed introduced a new, very small DSLR as rumored earlier in the week. The SL1 (as it's known in the U.S.) is "world's smallest and lightest DSLR... read more

British Airways Launches UnGrounded 'Innovation Lab In The Sky' To Solve Problems By Putting Techies On Planes Together

British Airways today announced the first of its "UnGrounded" innovation lab flights that will assemble 100 Silicon Valley luminaries on a flight to London to... read more

Google's Schmidt Says Chrome & Android Will Remain Separate -- But Don't Be Fooled: Two Years Ago He Confirmed They Will Merge

Google's Eric Schmidt has said Mountain View will keep its two OSes, Android and Chrome, separate after all, according to a Reuters report. Schmidt, who is in... read more

YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences

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