Top Stories of the Day // August 27, 2013

	Startups: there is only 1 day left to sign up for Startup Alley and demo at Disrupt SF. Learn more here and sign up today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 27, 2013 Darrell Etherington Samsung Exec Confirms Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Aimed At Younger, Hip Buyers Coming Sept. 4 Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch is poised to be the next big news in wearable tech, and it's also rapidly becoming one of the worst kept secrets of the tech... read more Ingrid Lunden ARM Acquires Internet Of Things Startup Sensinode To Move Beyond Tablets And Phones As more reports of ARM-based Windows and Apple devices continue to fill the airwaves -- the latest being reports of a Surface 2 and Nokia's first Windows... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents 'Silent Disco' Tech For Distributed Raves And Shared Private DJ Sets The silent disco is a recent trend that sees people using headphones to come together and enjoy a concert quietly while in a shared space, and a new Apple... read more Darrell Etherington Apple TV Gets Vevo Music Videos, Disney And Disney XD, The Weather Channel And Smithsonian Content Apple continues its selective content partner rollout today with an update to Apple TV software that adds Vevo, as previously rumored, as well as Disney... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents Smart Home And Media Center Remote Control Via iPhone The fabled Apple television set is still a fable, lo these many years after it first was whispered into the waiting ear of an analyst or blogger, but today... read more Natasha Lomas FABtotum Is A Hybrid 3D Printer, 3D Scanner, Cutter, Miller, Engraver Maker's Machine In One FABtotum is an all-in-one 3D printer, cutting, milling and engraving box of tricks which supports additive and subtractive manufacturing processes so you can... read more Steve O'Hear After 4M Downloads On iOS, Photo Remixing App Repix Lands On Android With Samsung S Pen Support After garnering 4 million downloads on iOS in five months, Finnish mobile app developer Sumoing has released a version of its photo "remixing" app Repix for... read more Catherine Shu Judge Approves Facebook's $20M "Sponsored Stories" Settlement A U.S. District judge has granted final approval to a settlement in which Facebook will pay $20 million for including users' names and profile photos in its... read more Darrell Etherington Chromecast Gets An iOS Setup App, Reminding Us Google Doesn't Care What Platform You Use It With Google is doing a good job of trying to make Chromecast have a degree of cross-platform appeal that AirPlay can't offer; today, it's launching an iOS app for... read more Catherine Shu The Time Warner Cable TV App For Xbox 360 Is Now Available, With Access To 300 Channels The TWC TV app for Xbox Live, which was announced back in June, is now available for download from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Microsoft's partnership with Time... 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 26, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 2 weeks with an outstanding agenda. Check out the complete list of influential speakers here and register today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 26, 2013 Ryan Lawler Dispatch From The Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google July 25, 2023 -- Local transportation and delivery giant Uber announced its biggest bet on autonomous vehicles yet, saying it would purchase 2,500 driverless... read more Aaron Levie Microsoft's Next Era Moments like this happen only once a generation in the technology industry.... read more John Biggs This Is Why You Don't Need A New Phone Network World has an excellent pictorial slideshow that shows us just how ridiculous our neophilia has gotten. While it's weak sauce coming from a site that... read more Eliza Brooke When Apple Did Color Because It Was Delicious, Exciting, And Human You know what they say about trends: wait five years and they'll swing back around again. With confirmation that a a gold iPhone 5s will indeed break onto the... read more Catherine Shu Kickstarter Project Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs GIFs have remained so ubiquitous, spawning legions of apps, memes and NSFW Tumblrs, that it can be surprising to remember the bitmap image format is more than... read more Chris Velazco Google Just Killed The Best Thing About The Chromecast (For Now) read more MG Siegler The Board Of The Borg On April 17 of this year, I wrote a post that I never published. The following day, Microsoft was set to release their Q3 numbers and I wanted to see what they... read more Sarah Perez Backed By $3 Million In Funding, Canva Launches A Graphic Design Platform Anyone Can Use A company called Canva is today launching what it hopes will become the default tool people use to create and collaborate on design online. The service, which... read more Alexia Tsotsis Vogue And The Tech Hard Sell read more Ingrid Lunden Apple Wants To Use The iPhone To Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Russia With all eyes focused on what new iPhone handsets Apple may be launching very soon -- if reports are to be believed, two new models, and a new color, on... 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 25, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 2 weeks with an outstanding agenda. Check out the complete list of influential speakers here and register today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 25, 2013 Devin Coldewey The Maginot Line I'm sorry to say that I have succumbed to something like schadenfreude. It's not that I really enjoy what is happening these days, what with institutions of the... read more John Biggs Weekend Watch Review: Grappling The Girard-Perregaux Chrono Hawk Girard-Perregaux, to those not familiar with watch lore, is a watchmaker founded in 1791 and that now produces handmade, manufacture pieces in the mid- to... read more Rip Empson As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees read more Steve Gillmor Gillmor Gang: Watching the River Flow The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor — digest the resignation of Steve Ballmer and its potential impact... 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 24, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 2 weeks with an outstanding agenda. Check out the complete list of influential speakers here and register today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 24, 2013 Chris Velazco Justdelete.me Wants To Help You Pull The Plug On All Those Pesky Online Accounts It's tiring, isn't it? Doing everything online, I mean. Everyday you log into services tailor-made for shopping, searching, sharing, watching, chatting,... read more Chris Velazco Motorola's New Keyboard-Packing Droid 5 Reportedly Caught On Film Motorola just showed off three new Droid smartphones last month (or, if you prefer, one new Droid and two spinoffs), but it's apparently not done cranking out... read more Frederic Lardinois Google Glass Isn't Coming To Best Buy Next Year, And It Won't Cost $299 Even though Google Glass is out in the wild and on the heads of around 10,000 people, there are still plenty of questions about it. For a long time now, we've... read more alexjameswilhelm Inside Ballmer's Exit And Who Definitely Won't Be Microsoft's Next CEO Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he will retire in the next 12 months. His successor is not known, but the move marks the end of an era in... read more Jon Evans Jobs, Robots, Capitalism, Inequality, And You Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the "widening gap between rich and poor" is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs... read more Chris Velazco Yahoo Acquires Image-Recognition Startup IQ Engines To Improve Flickr Photo Organization & Search Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet... read more Chris Velazco FitTrip Will Take You On Tours Of The World From The Safety Of Your Gym I'm a mediocre runner at best, and I've taken to blaming that on the dearth of idyllic running spots in my particular corner of New Jersey. For schlubs like me,... read more Jules Maltz and Parsa Saljoughian How Fast Should You Be Growing? Paul Graham wrote a great post in which he defines a startup as a "company designed to grow fast" and encouraged founders to constantly measure their growth... read more Billy Gallagher Growth Project Manager Erin Teague Leaves Path For Quora Erin Teague, a project manager for growth at Path, is leaving for the same position at Quora, as first reported by AllThingsD's Liz Gannes.... read more Anthony Ha Locket, Which Puts Ads On Your Lock Screen, Asks Users To Vote For The Ads They Want To See Locket, the startup that pays Android users to engage with ads, is now asking those users to weigh in on the type of ads that they want to see.... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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