Top Stories of the Day // September 2, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 7 days with Dick Costolo, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg and many more. Check out the agenda here and get tickets today! Today's Top Stories // Sep 2, 2013 Greg Kumparak Mega Man's Creator Turns To Kickstarter To Fuel His New Game (Which Looks A Whole Lot Like Mega Man) It's becoming almost formulaic: An iconic game designer, backed by a legion of dedicated fans, turns to Kickstarter to allow them to break out on their own.... read more Darrell Etherington Juicies Takes A Second Kick At The Kickstarter Can With Juicies+, Aluminum-Tipped Charging Cables That Won't Tangle When a Kickstarter project goes well enough to inspire a sequel a few years down the road, it's generally a positive sign. In the case of Juicies, a startup... read more Ingrid Lunden Kantar: Android Takes 65% Of Sales Across Major Markets; Windows Phone Grows By Tapping Dumbphone Users The latest smartphone sales figures are out today from Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, and in case you needed one more metric to underscore the topline trend that's... read more Catherine Shu Yahoo China Shuts Down Its Web Portal Yahoo China, which is operated by Chinese e-commerce and Internet services behemoth Alibaba Group, has closed its Web portal. The site now displays a good-bye... read more Alex Williams Why Internet Companies Don't Buy From The Enterprise Kings Internet companies represent the world's fastest-growing markets and they cover the global economy. Every market imaginable is affected by Internet companies.... read more Mike Butcher European Accelerator Numbers — Seedcamp Releases Its Data For The Last 6 Years TechCrunch Europe was launched in September 2007, the same week Seedcamp - the European tech startup accelerator - also launched. So we've been on something of... read more Darrell Etherington Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Takes Shape Ahead Of Sept. 4 Event, Likely Won't Resemble Mini Phone The good ship Galaxy Gear smartwatch is springing multiple leaks ahead of its official reveal this Wednesday, Sept. 4, and there are even leaks about previous... read more Catherine Shu Japanese E-Commerce Giant Rakuten Confirms Acquisition Of Video Site Viki Rakuten has confirmed that it will acquire Viki, a global video streaming platform that crowdsources translated subtitles. The Japanese e-commerce giant, which... read more Natasha Lomas Handshake Is A Personal Data Marketplace Where Users Get Paid To Sell Their Own Data Handshake is a personal data marketplace startup aiming to cut out the market research middle man by building a platform where users can sign up to be... read more Ingrid Lunden With Twitterspirit, Twitter Gets Its Own Snapchat: A Disappearing Tweet Hack, Courtesy Of An Ex-Twitter Engineer Twitter is working on ways of getting more juice out of its vast trove of user content -- that new "blue line" for conversation threads, for example, is a way... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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