Friday, February 28, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 27, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 27, 2014

Google’s Project Ara $50 Modular Smartphone Could Change The Way We Buy Phones Starting Next Year

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Apple Makes Big Improvements In iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education

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Google Announces An Online Data Interpretation Class For The General Public

Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called "Making Sense of... read more

Samsung Galaxy S5 Breaks Records With Over 100K Pre-Registrations At T-Mobile In Under Two Days

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The Boeing Black Secure Android Smartphone Gets Official After Three Years In Development

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How Not To Be A Glasshole, Part 2

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Google’s Project Ara Modular Smartphone Gets Its Own Developer Conference This April

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Gravity's Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To "Explode" This Year

Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur... read more

Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch... read more

The Epic App Brings Kids' Books To The iPad — And Makes Them More Fun, Too

A lot of parents tend to want to limit "screen time" for their kids, and push them to read more books instead.... read more

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 26, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 26, 2014

Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, And Facebook

You grow old, you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants wither or stagnate,... read more

Paramount Afraid Tweeted Stills Of ‘Top Gun’ Compete With Actual Movie

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The Fingerprint Scanner On The Samsung Galaxy S5 Will Be Accessible By Developers

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Mt. Gox’s Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin’s First Wave Of Entrepreneurs

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Google Quietly Begins Pushing Its Photo Backup Software To Google+ Users

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Rolls-Royce’s Drone Shipbots Will Rule Tomorrow’s Oceans, Shipping Containers

If you're rooting for the drone team, then chalk up another win: Rolls-Royce is working on unmanned cargo ships that would roam the Earth's oceans packed with... read more

How Could Snapchat Make Money? College Kids

Over 77 percent of college students are using Snapchat at least once every single day, according to research by Sumpto. And even more stunning, 45 percent... read more



TOP VIDEOS

Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch... read more

The Epic App Brings Kids' Books To The iPad — And Makes Them More Fun, Too

A lot of parents tend to want to limit "screen time" for their kids, and push them to read more books instead.... read more

CrunchWeek: Facebook's Epic, $19B Acquisition of WhatsApp

It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together... read more

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 25, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 25, 2014

To The Surprise Of No One, BlackBerry CEO John Chen Would Take $19B For BBM

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Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired

The App Store is a strange and whimsical bedfellow. It is a kingmaker, but with that comes the tears of the anointed, the displaced and the never-rans. As an... read more

HTC And Nokia Troll Samsung

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WhatsApp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Facebook’s Zuckerberg, And It Was Internet.org That Sealed The Deal

More than a few people were surprised when Facebook said it would pay $19 billion for messaging app startup WhatsApp, but today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg... read more

Samsung’s Dust- And Water Resistant Galaxy S5 Gets Official With Heart Rate Monitor, Fingerprint Scanner

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Know Thy Selfie

When you're mad, or happy, or looking into the eyes of your sweetie, do you know what your face looks like? Probably not, according to Dr. James Kilner,... read more

Samsung To Release A Galaxy S5 With An 8-Core Processor

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TOP VIDEOS

The Epic App Brings Kids' Books To The iPad — And Makes Them More Fun, Too

A lot of parents tend to want to limit "screen time" for their kids, and push them to read more books instead.... read more

CrunchWeek: Facebook's Epic, $19B Acquisition of WhatsApp

It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together... read more

Ask A VC: Vegas Tech Fund's Jen McCabe On The Next Big Hardware Opportunity

In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, VegasTechFund’s Jen McCabe joined us in the studio to talk hardware,... read more

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