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Top Stories of the Day // September 3, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Sep 3, 2012

How Obama Stole Romney's RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media

President Barack Obama managed to steal an impressive amount of Gov. Mitt Romney's press coverage with a few, cheap social media tricks, including the most... read more

Android Smartphone Sales, Led By Big Screens, Are Growing Everywhere Except In The U.S.

We've seen a lot of images of an (alleged) iPhone coming soon with a bigger screen, and some numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market... read more

Bruce Willis Isn't Suing Apple Over iTunes Music Ownership Rights

Earlier today, there was a rumor that Bruce Willis was considering to sue Apple to clarify who owns content downloaded from iTunes. The U.K.'s Daily Mail... read more

Rocket Internet's 'Blitzkrieg': JP Morgan Invests In Russian Fashion Site Lamoda; $40-80M Reported

Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-baked fashion sites modelled on Zappos -- an undisclosed investment into... read more

Swarmly Debuts Its 'Waze For People' On iOS -- Know Where Is Hot Or Not, Right Now

Swarmly, a newly-released app for iPhone, thinks it's seen a gap in the location sharing market. Unlike check-in apps like Foursquare or indeed Facebook's own... read more

Social Gaming, Dating Account For The Biggest Growth In Carrier Billing

Over the last year, we have seen some notable advances in mobile carrier billing -- which lets people pay for services and content on their phones by charging... read more

Do Women Love Ann Romney? Only Facebook Knows

For all the millions spent on the Republican National Convention, the entire operation could only speculate whether their keynote speeches had any meaningful... read more

T-Mobile Launches CleverConnect, A Bobsled-Style VoIP Service For Europe

T-Mobile today becomes the latest operator to leverage the popularity of free internet phone calls and texts in hopes of luring in more users around its brand.... read more

Twitter Bets On Girls Who Code

In 1967, 25-year-old Damyanti Gupta immigrated to Detroit with one goal—to be an Engineer at Ford Motor Company. Only there was one problem: there were no... read more

MyVoucherCodes Adds Restaurant Booking Functionality To Its Mobile App, Powered By Toptable

In a move that seems like a bit of a no-brainer, but for which the company is claiming a UK first: MyVoucherCodes has added the ability to make a restaurant... read more

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