Top Stories of the Day // August 31, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Aug 31, 2012 Anthony Ha Facebook To Roll Out Email- and Phone Number-Based Ad Targeting Next Week Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has... read more Jordan Crook This Is The Best Look At The New iPhone Yet Ah, the next-gen iPhone. What more can we say? Almost sadly, we already know the screen will be bigger, the connecting port is smaller, and the design will be... read more Matt Burns Hello Beautiful! Nokia's Windows Phone 8 820/920 PureView Smartphones Leak Another day, another leak -- this time, a set of new images that purportedly depict Nokia's next set of Lumia smartphones have begun to make the rounds. Coming... read more Ingrid Lunden Nokia + Microsoft Kick Off $23M AppCampus Incubator: Over $1M Going To 36 Startups Next week Nokia and Microsoft are expected to unveil the first handset(s) running on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 platform, and today comes news about the apps... read more Alex Williams How Twitter Uses Open Source Twitter's Chris Aniszcyk gave the keynote this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.... read more Sarah Perez Chomp-Inspired iOS 6 App Store Redesign Could Impact Long Tail Of App Developers It appears that at least some of the innovations found in early 2012 Apple acquisition Chomp, a mobile app search and discovery platform, have made their way... read more Ingrid Lunden Smart TVs Fail To Score With Consumers In U.S. And Other Western Markets: GfK Here's one reason why Apple may not be producing a television with its name blazoned on it in the near term: it doesn't look like people have, so far, shown... read more Ryan Lawler ShoutEm Launches Development Platform To Make HTML5 Mobile Apps Look Native When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and... read more Rip Empson Watsi Is Using Crowdfunding To Treat The 1B+ Worldwide Without Access To Medical Care Entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers. But, the tech industry today needs more of the type of risk-takers who go against the grain by actually tackling big,... read more Rip Empson With $275M In Capital Deployed To Main Street Businesses, On Deck Raises $100M Of Its Own We make a lot of noise about the venture capital and angel funding startups raise to help grow their businesses. But there are a lot of mom-and-pop shops out... 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 30, 2012

	Welcome to the Crunch Daily newsletter! You are receiving this digest of startup news and updates as an email subscriber to TechCrunch. If you do not wish to receive these daily emails in the future, feel free to unsubscribe from this newsletter. Today's Top Stories // Aug 30, 2012 Ingrid Lunden Is Facebook Testing Out New Newsfeed And Skyscraper Display Ad Units In New Zealand? No, Adware Strikes Again New Zealand was the first country to get Facebook's new-look Timeline last December. Now the country looks like it may be putting in another special appearance,... read more Matt Burns Amazon Wants Everyone To Know The Kindle Fire Is Sold Out New Kindles are coming! New Kindles are coming! And Amazon is trying its hardest to build up hype.... read more Sarah Perez Facebook Saturation?: Twitter, Skype, Instagram & Other Apps Downloaded More In July Based on downloads, Facebook's iPhone app was no longer the most popular mobile social networking app in many Asian countries and elsewhere from July 2011 to... read more Ingrid Lunden Amazon vs B&N Heats Up In Europe: Android Appstore Goes Live In UK, Germany, France, Italy & Spain; B&N Adds More Nook Retailers In what might be the closest sign yet we've seen to Amazon preparing to launch the Kindle Fire tablet outside of the U.S., Amazon is finally launching its... read more Sarah Perez Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when... read more Ryan Lawler Revealed: Mint.com Could Soon Fire Back At Simple With A Debit Card Of Its Own Earlier today, online banking startup Simple unveiled new reporting features that will allow users to see how much -- and where -- they're spending money in... read more Frederic Lardinois Lunar Lander In HTML5: Atari Teams Up With Microsoft To Bring 8 Classic Games To The Browser Atari is turning 40 this year and with the help of Microsoft and the HTML5 specialists at gskinner.com, it is now bringing eight of its most popular classic... read more Jordan Crook AT&T Opens A Swanky 10,000 Sq. Ft. Flagship Store In Chi-Town Today, AT&T opened up its 10,000 square foot flagship retail store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. It's a bit of a beast, with an 18-foot Connect Wall that... read more Steve O'Hear Payleven, The Rocket-Fueled Square-Clone, Opens In UK, Netherlands, Brazil; Confirms Double-Digit Round Rocket Internet, the incubator/investment vehicle from the Samwer brothers, is known to move fast: Today, news comes that Payeleven, its recently outed... read more Ingrid Lunden IDC: Android-Crazy China Passes U.S. As Smartphone Leader, But India's Growing The Fastest The latest figures out from IDC confirm that this is the year that China will overtake the U.S. as the world's biggest smartphone market, with its 25.5% share a... 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 29, 2012

	Welcome to the Crunch Daily newsletter! You are receiving this digest of startup news and updates as an email subscriber to TechCrunch. If you do not wish to receive these daily emails in the future, feel free to unsubscribe from this newsletter. Today's Top Stories // Aug 29, 2012 Anthony Ha The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How @Shirls Fooled The Valley Silicon Valley is full of hustlers, and that's often a good thing. But there's a difference between hustling and flat-out lying, and when people deceive company... read more Ingrid Lunden Another Sign Of A New iPhone? Apple Will Pay You To Recycle Your 4S Apple is, as usual, remaining tight-lipped about whether it will be releasing any new devices this autumn -- and even if there will be an event scheduled for... read more Matt Burns RAWR: Samsung Canada Wins The Internet With This Custom Galaxy S III It all started with a simple Facebook message from a loyal Samsung fan to the company's Canadian Facebook page. "I was just wondering if I could get a free... read more Sarah Perez Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses, Free Through 2013 Following moves that began last October, when Google began allowing Google Apps users access to Google+, the company announced today several more features which... read more Matt Burns xhKhx read more Matt Burns Sony Takes On The MS Surface, Introduces The Full-Featured VAIO Duo 11 Windows 8 Slide-Out Tablet It's half-tablet, half-notebook, but all awesome. Sony briefly announced the VAIO Duo 11 at its IFA 2012 press conference in Berlin today. It's a powerhouse,... read more Ryan Lawler WePay Launches Buttons To Allow Any Site To Accept In-Line Payments With Just A Line Of Code Online payments startup WePay has been on a roll lately. The company is processing hundreds of millions of dollars in payments annually, and adding more than... read more Alex Williams No More Project Octopus -- A Corporate Dropbox Gets A Corporate Name Last year at VMworld, there was this news story from VMware that was so refreshing. It concerned a new effort called Project Octopus. It had all the markings of... read more Mike Butcher One Year On, Photo App Startup EyeEm Reckons It Can Keep On Snapping It's been a year since upstart photo app EyeEm launched. A year in which Instagram rocketed in usage and was bought for a billion bucks by Facebook. A year in... read more Jordan Crook Dropbox Teams With Vimeo For Direct Video Uploads Today Dropbox and Vimeo have put their heads together to let Dropbox users upload content directly to Vimeo.... 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 28, 2012

	Welcome to the Crunch Daily newsletter! You are receiving this digest of startup news and updates as an email subscriber to TechCrunch. If you do not wish to receive these daily emails in the future, feel free to unsubscribe from this newsletter. Today's Top Stories // Aug 28, 2012 Chris Velazco The New iPhone Already Has An Android-Powered Clone Psst. Yeah, you. Wanna buy a new iPhone? No, the new iPhone, the one that's not out yet. It's not important how I got it, are you in or not?... read more Matt Burns The Samsung Galaxy S III Is Now Available In Brown, Red, Black And Grey Every once in a while a press release comes by that overflows with needless bullshit. Like this one from Samsung. The story is described in the headline above:... read more Jordan Crook Winter Is Coming: The Great iPhone Cable Shortage Of 2012 How many iOS charger cables do you own? You know, the 30-pin connector that's been packaged alongside every iPod, iPhone and iPad for as long as I can remember.... read more Jordan Crook NPD: Apple Customers Love The Genius Bar, Mostly Because Service Is Free If you own an Apple product, chances are you've paid a visit to the Genius Bar, the magical place in the back of an Apple store where your broken iThings get... read more Billy Gallagher How Much Is A Like Worth? SumAll Social Metrics Tracks Social Activity Against Web Traffic And Revenue Data visualization company SumAll launched SumAll Social Metrics, tracking a company's social activity against web traffic and revenue and providing insights... read more Alex Williams Rackspace Acquires Mailgun, A Y Combinator Startup That Gives App Developers An API For Creating And Managing Online Mailboxes Rackspace has acquired Mailgun, a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup that has developed an API for creating and managing online email inboxes for apps and... read more Sarah Perez Death To The Restaurant Buzzer: NoWait Raises $2 Million For iOS-Based Waitlisting System NoWait, a mobile waitlisting management service based in Pittsburgh, is announcing today it has closed on a $2 million Series A round of funding led by... read more Matt Burns The Nexus 7 Now Enjoys Prime Advertising Real Estate On Google's Homepage The iPad might have the bulk of the tablet mind share, but the Nexus 7 has Google.com. The $199 tablet is now advertised on Google's homepage with an... read more Joe Kraus First, Fire Thyself Editor's note: Joe Kraus is a partner at Google Ventures, focusing on mobile, gaming, and local services. In 1993, he co-founded Excite.com, an early... read more Ingrid Lunden Patent Case Aftermath: Samsung Down By $12B (And Still Slumping) While Apple, Nokia, RIM All Gain We still have to wait and see how the jury's ruling against Samsung over Apple patents will play out for the company in terms of actual fines, injunctions --... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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