Friday, May 31, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 31, 2013

Apple's New Product Strategy

Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond... read more

Pirate3D Buccaneer Hits $100K Goal In 10 Minutes

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Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward

During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists... read more

Housebites Runs Out Of Runway For Its Airbnb For Take-Out, Reduces Staff As It Prepares Fresh Pivot

Housebites, the London, UK-based startup that enables independent chefs to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a take-out, has shuttered in its current... read more

Apple Saw Over One-Third Of Mobile Ad Requests In Q1, Adfonic Says, But Samsung Surges In Engagement

Apple continues to rule the roost when it comes to mobile ad share, according to UK-based ad firm Adfonic, but Samsung is winning a small victory in terms of... read more

StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts

StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class at AOL's... read more

Fanatix Bolsters Its Seed With Another $1M As Its Mobile Social Network For Sports Fans Hits 1M Monthly Actives, Up 566% Since January

Fanatix, the U.K. startup that's made a mobile-first social network for sports fans to chew over their team's performance as and after they watch them play, has... read more

Fee-less Charity Donation Startup, Believe.in, Partners With Stripe To Offer Faster Payment Processing

Believe.in, a VC-backed U.K.-based charity donation platform that's disrupting the cause-giving space by not charging any fees on donations, has announced a... read more

With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin

RadPad is one of those startups that comes from a founder's real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and... read more

HTC Reportedly Pulls The Plug On A 12-Inch Windows RT Tablet, But A Smaller Tab Lives On

HTC is currently sailing through a patch of rough seas, and it seems as though the company is starting to rethink its tablet strategy. According to a recent... read more

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // May 30, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 30, 2013

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Got Into The Electric Car Business Because No One Else Would

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that he got into the electric car business after it became clear that no one else was going to build an electric car. In a keynote... read more

Samsung Confirms 4.3" Dual-Core Galaxy S4 Mini To Widen Access To Its Flagship S4 Brand

Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy S4 Mini, following a brief leak earlier this month. The new handset takes the name of its current flagship... read more

Microsoft Gives In To The Old Guard, Adds Start Button And Boot To Desktop To Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the... read more

Dropbox Currently Experiencing Widespread Service Outage

Dropbox is undergoing a pretty widespread service outage, according to our own tests and multiple reports from around the world on Twitter. It's been down for... read more

Dots Goes Multiplayer

Stupid friggin' Dots.... read more

Drupal.org Hacked, User Details Exposed And Reset

Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn't been a good year for web security.... read more

Yves Behar's August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App

The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. A startup called... read more

Tesla Will Triple Its Supercharger Coverage Area, Enabling Cross-Country Road Trips, CEO Elon Musk Says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover... read more

Apple Adds A New iPod Touch With 16GB Of Storage And No Rear Camera For $229

Apple today dropped a mid-cycle refresh of the iPod touch, its iOS-based iPod, with 16GB of storage on board and without a rear camera, for $229. This slots in... read more

Hello Moto X

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // May 29, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 29, 2013

CEO Tim Cook Says Apple Has More Game-Changing Products Ahead

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company will continue to innovate, and has more game-changing products ahead. Today in a keynote conversation at the D11... read more

Heading To Yahoo! And No! I Can't Do Anything About The Exclamation Mark!

Today, I have to say goodbye to my current home, TechCrunch. I've not only gotten the opportunity to work with this amazing team as a writer and Community... read more

Dear Andy Dunn

What? You thought that publicly calling out prominent groups of people didn't open you up to some criticism yourself? You know what they say about people who... read more

Microsoft's Surface Pro Gets A 256GB Storage Option When It Hits The Japanese Market In June

Microsoft's Surface Pro, the tablet/laptop amalgam device designed to perfectly showcase Windows 8, is getting a 256 SSD internal storage option, the biggest... read more

Meet Tim Cook's Apple: APIs Abound, Spending Money To Make Money, Long Bets On New Categories

Apple CEO Tim Cook was on stage at D11, AllThingsD's most recent marquee annual tech conference, and he had a lot to talk about, given recent activity with... read more

Insight Venture Partners Raises A Whopping $2.57 Billion For Next Fund

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Spotify Launches "Discover" Feature For Its Web App

Spotify has launched Discover, a news feed that allows users to see recommendations, songs and playlists based on their favorite music. The feature, which... read more

Don't Expect To See New iPhone Or iPad Hardware At WWDC, The Loop Advises, But New Macs Possible

The Loop's Jim Dalrymple is probably the best-connected Apple blogger on the planet at the moment, so when he posts an entry called "WWDC Expectations," the... read more

JamStar Is A Cool Free App That Teaches You To Play The Guitar

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GoEuro's Multi-Mode Travel Platform Launches In Germany & The U.K. To Take The Strain Out Of Route Planning

After closing a $4m round in March, led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures, Berlin-based multi-mode travel search platform GoEuro has now launched... read more

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // May 28, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 28, 2013

Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin's Consumerization

Because why do anything other than try out hot technologies on Memorial Day, I just bought some Bitcoin. I might finally play Dots and maybe 3D-print an ear... read more

What Would Square's Jack Dorsey Do?

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With New Study And Marketing Campaign, Microsoft Puts Renewed Emphasis On Its Social Tools For The Enterprise

Microsoft's SharePoint always featured a core set of social tools, but with the acquisition of Yammer, as well as the ongoing integration of Lync and Skype, the... read more

Drones Aren't For Delivering Tacos: UVS Avia Builds Quadcopters For Nuclear Sites, Search-And-Rescue

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Alibaba Group Starts Work On Massive Logistics Network To Provide 24-Hour Deliveries Throughout China

Alibaba Group officially launched (link via Google Translate) the China Smart Logistics Network (CSN) today, which former Alibaba CEO Jack Ma says will become... read more

Public Lab's Crowdfunded Infragram Cameras Let People See Plants In A Different Light

There's no shortage of novel Kickstarter projects that aim to change how we think about the environment, but here's one that could literally change how we look... read more

BuzzFeed Partners With CNN, Will Invest Low "Eight-Digit Sum" In YouTube News Channel

Social news site and meme aggregator Buzzfeed is partnering with CNN and YouTube to create a new online-video channel called "CNN BuzzFeed" that will be... read more

This DIY Super Laser Can Cut Through A Ping Pong Ball

There are few things as satisfying - and dangerous - as burning through stuff with a laser. Drake Anthony AKA Sytropyro is a young man who enjoys making DIY... read more

TestFairy Opens Its Android App Testing Platform To All, Making Even Bad Beta Testers Useful

Beta testing mobile apps becomes only more challenging as the crop of devices and mobile OS versions continues to expand, and Israel-based TestFairy, a new... read more

The Same Tech That Makes Your Bose Headphones So Quiet Could Give Net Speeds A Big Boost

New research suggests that noise canceling tech isn't just for blocking out the screaming baby or chatty couple sitting next to you on that transatlantic flight... read more

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