Top Stories of the Day // March 27, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 27, 2014 Alex Wilhelm King Falls 15% On Its IPO Day, Erasing $1.1B In Market Cap Today King went public, and immediately was given a raspberry by investors who sent its stock price down throughout the day, hammering the company to the tune... read more Frederic Lardinois In Response To Google, Amazon Announces Massive Price Cuts For S3, EC2, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce And RDS read more Felicia Williams Buying An Engagement Ring Online Spoiled The Surprise read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents A Surface-Like Touch Keyboard Smart Cover With A Trackpad Twist read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents Smudge-Resistant Sapphire Coating, Suggesting Displays Are On The Way read more Natasha Lomas Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text Sometimes it's the little things that matter. Like being able to carry on texting without walking into a tree. Apple apparently thinks so anyway. A patent... read more Catherine Shu Lithium To Acquire Social Influence Scoring Site Klout For $200M Social customer service company Lithium Technologies will announce on Thursday morning that it has acquired Klout for almost $200 million in cash and private... read more TOP VIDEOS Inside Jobs: How Medium's Product Scientist Brings Data To Life The tech press can make it seem like the most important people in the industry are those with "founder" or "chief"... read more Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of... read more Fly Or Die: Whisper Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper. This week, we're joined by Leena... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // March 26, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 26, 2014 Matthew Panzarino Facebook To Buy Oculus VR, Maker Of The Rift Headset, For Around $2B In Cash And Stock Facebook has announced plans to purchase Oculus VR, the company behind the Rift headset, for around $2B in cash and stock. This includes $400 million in cash... read more Matt Burns The Creator Of Doom Is Now A Facebook Employee This isn't bizzaro world. We will soon live in a world where the maker of Doom, Quake and most of my childhood memories works for Mark Zuckerberg. John Carmack... read more Josh Constine TechCrunch’s Picks: The Top 8 Startups From Y Combinator W14 Demo Day While today saw Paul Graham officially pass the torch to new Y Combinator president Sam Altman, the bigger buzz at Demo Day was about how most investors thought... read more Matthew Panzarino Facebook Buys A Virtual World Today, in somewhat of a surprise move, Facebook purchased virtual reality company Oculus VR. The purchase elicited visceral reactions from people dismayed that... read more Matt Burns Facebook Stock Slides In After-Hours Trading Following Acquisition Of Oculus Rift Wall Street doesn't like what it sees. Facebook's stock price (NASDAQ:FB) is dropping in after-hours trading after the company announced its purchase of virtual... read more Ingrid Lunden Cathy Edwards, Co-Founder Of Chomp, Is Leaving Apple On April 11 A notable personnel departure is coming up in Cupertino: Cathy Edwards, the co-founder and CTO of app search and discovery platform Chomp, is leaving Apple on... read more Catherine Shu Apple Pledges To Make iOS Emojis More Racially Diverse Apple has vowed to update its emojis after Miley Cyrus and actor Tahj Mowry complained about the cartoon emoticons' lack of diversity. MTV Act blogger Joey... read more TOP VIDEOS Inside Jobs: How Medium's Product Scientist Brings Data To Life The tech press can make it seem like the most important people in the industry are those with "founder" or "chief"... read more Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of... read more Fly Or Die: Whisper Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper. This week, we're joined by Leena... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // March 25, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 25, 2014 Alex Wilhelm Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google read more Josh Constine Hotshot CEO Aaron Levie Will Only Own 4.1% Of Box When It IPOs, Investor DFJ Owns 25.5% Box CEO Aaron Levie is credited with bringing sexy back to enterprise startups, but the big surprise in Box's S-1 IPO document filed today is that Levie only... read more Pankaj Mishra IBM India Battles Fraud Amid Scramble To Save Its $2.5B Airtel Contract read more Sarah Perez Clones, Clones Everywhere – “1024,” “2048″ And Other Copies Of Popular Paid Game “Threes” Fill The App Stores Though the "Flappy Bird" craze may be winding down -- currently, there's only one "Flappy Bird" knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store -- the... read more Alexia Tsotsis SF Is Actually The New Palo Alto Lots of pretty writing in New York Magazine writer Kevin Roose's "Is San Francisco New York" and New York Times writer Nick Bilton's response "Why San Francisco... read more Ryan Lawler It’s Official: Disney Acquires Maker Studios For At Least $500M Media conglomerate Disney has taken a big step to embracing the new digital world of video, announcing the acquisition of YouTube network Maker Studios for $500... read more Ron Miller Apple’s iPhone 5c Sales Story Is A Complex One For years, pundits and analysts have been suggesting that the only way for Apple to compete against cheap Android phones, especially in China and throughout... read more TOP VIDEOS Hands On With Bellabeat, The App That Lets Moms-To-Be Hear And Share Baby's Heartbeat It was just over a month ago that Bellabeat, the startup that aims to be the go-to quantified self app for pregnancies,... read more Inside Jobs: How Medium's Product Scientist Brings Data To Life The tech press can make it seem like the most important people in the industry are those with "founder" or "chief"... read more Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // March 24, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 24, 2014 Josh Constine Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of that, if any" when we spoke on stage at SXSW.... read more Darrell Etherington Extended ‘All New HTC One’ Leak Video Shows Brushed Gray Stainless Finish read more Darrell Etherington Nokia X Review: Windows Phone Maker Does Low-Cost Android Surprisingly Well read more John Biggs Financial Firms Looking To Linux, Windows 7 As XP Support Dries Up In an unsurprising move, ATM operators and other financial organizations are beginning to look to Linux as a replacement for their outdated Windows XP... read more Mike Butcher The Rise Of The Euro Mega-Round Slowly, quietly, but increasingly more noisily, startups originally hailing from Europe but going global have been raising larger and larger funding rounds. The... read more Darrell Etherington Mixpanel: iOS 7 Adoption At 90%, While Android Kit Kat Remains At Under 10% read more Ryan Lawler Some Thoughts On The Latest Apple-Comcast Streaming TV Talks The Internet is abuzz tonight with a report from the Wall Street Journal that Apple and Comcast have been talking about a streaming, over-the-top video service.... read more TOP VIDEOS Secret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed "We don't see very much of... read more Fly Or Die: Whisper Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper. This week, we're joined by Leena... read more Gillmor Gang: No Reply The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Semil Shah, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — wade into... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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