Top Stories of the Day // December 5, 2012

	Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Dec 5, 2012 Darrell Etherington Trader Allegedly Attempted To Flip $1 Billion In Apple Stock With Firm's Money, Plan Backfired A stock trader named David Miller with Rochdale Securities was arrested today on the grounds that he'd illegally purchased $1 billion in Apple stock, or 1.625... read more Jordan Crook Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration: We Want Images Viewed On Instagram.com Instagram has turned off Twitter Cards integration, leaving Instagram users on the short-winded social network with cropped, less-than-perfect copies of their... read more Natasha Lomas Nokia Unveils Latest Windows Phone 8 Device: Lumia 620 Packs 3.8 Inch ClearBlack Display, NFC, Costs $249 (Before Taxes) read more Chris Velazco The Gangnam Style Onslaught Continues With An Official Live Wallpaper For Android Devices It's been, what, five months since PSY's Gangnam Style first made its YouTube debut? You'd think that Gangnam fever would've died out long ago, but it... read more Natasha Lomas Juniper Research: iPhone 5's Lack Of NFC Has Set Market Back By 2 Years In U.S., W. Europe Apple's decision not to add the NFC wireless transfer tech to the iPhone 5 has set the NFC market back by two years in the U.S. and Western Europe, says analyst... read more Rip Empson Facebook's Comeback Continues: $FB Set To Replace Infosys On The NASDAQ 100 Next Week Facebook will replace Infosys on the NASDAQ 100 Index on December 12th, about seven months after its IPO, NBC is reporting tonight. The news followed Infosys'... read more Darrell Etherington Casio's iPhone-Loving, Low Energy Bluetooth Smart Watch Might Be Just Smart Enough Casio announced this week that its G-Shock watch with low-power Bluetooth 4.0 is shipping out to U.S. retailers now, after a delay of a year or more owing to a... read more Darrell Etherington Google Maps On The Wii U Lets You Wander The World's Streets With Your GamePad Beginning In January While I've managed to resist the call of the Wii U so far, neat tricks with the GamePad like the newly-announced Google Maps app Street View integration have me... read more Chris Velazco NYC's Mayor Challenges Designers, Hardware Hackers, And Policy Buffs To Reinvent The Humble Payphone With cell phones as ubiquitous as they are (a recent report from the Pew Research Center purports that around 85% of American adults have one), it seems safe to... read more Frederic Lardinois Microsoft's Steven Guggenheimer: Steven Sinofsky Is A "Phenomenal Visionary" - Will Be Missed At Microsoft At LeWeb Paris this morning, Microsoft's corporate vice president for its Developer & Platform Evangelism Group, just took the stage to discuss the state of... 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 // December 4, 2012

	Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Dec 4, 2012 Josh Constine No Facebook Account Required: Facebook Messenger For Android Lets You Sign Up With Just A Phone Number Today Facebook announced its first ever product open to people without a Facebook account. Starting now, the Messenger for Android app, and later its iOS... read more Anthony Ha OneSpot Launches Platform For Turning Articles Into Ads, Raises $1.5M A lot of companies are getting into the content marketing business, creating blog posts and articles to promote their brands and products. But are they doing... read more Jordan Crook It's All Blurry: CollegeHumor Makes Fun Of Nickelback And Instagram If you were searching for your daily dose of morning hilarity, look no further.... read more Rip Empson jOBS: Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic To Debut At Sundance In January As you may have heard, Steve Jobs will be getting the Ashton Kutcher treatment in "jOBS", the first biopic to be released since the Apple co-founder passed away... read more Rip Empson Mary Meeker's Year-End Trends Report: Mobile & Tablets = 24% Of Online Shopping On Black Friday, Up 18% From 2012 Kleiner Perkins Partner Mary Meeker publisher her annual "Internet Trends Year-End Report" tonight, providing an update on the glimpse she gave us into mobile... read more Ingrid Lunden Last.fm Founders' Next Track: Lumi, A Site That Uses Your Browsing History To Help You Discover Things On The Web Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel, the co-founders of the music discovery and streaming site Last.fm, went into a kind of startup hibernation after selling their... read more Mike Butcher Soundcloud Revamps Site, Announces New Numbers: Reaches 180M Users A Month And Counting It's been a while since we heard new user numbers from the "YouTube of audio" startup Soundcloud (though not much of a startup these days), so Le Web in Paris... read more Ingrid Lunden Founded By 4 Ex-Googlers, QuBit Raises $7.5M Led By Balderton To Improve E-Commerce Personalization With Big Data QuBit, a big-data startup whose analytics platform helps e-commerce sites with customer personalization, is today announcing that it has raised a Series A round... read more Catherine Shu PhoneScope 3D Gives iPhone Users A High-Res 3D Scanner in Their Pocket The PhoneScope 3D offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI animators. But its... read more Rip Empson Karma Launches Its $79 4G Mobile Hotspot And Pay-As-You-Go Data Plan That Reward Users For Sharing Their Bandwidth The founders behind Karma (no, not that Karma) think that there's something fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers. And they're hardly alone.... 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 // December 3, 2012

	Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Dec 3, 2012 Ingrid Lunden What's Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That's What Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired... read more Darrell Etherington News Corp's iPad-Only Newspaper, The Daily, Shutting Down, Brand And Some Staff Folded Into New York Post News Corp today announced that The Daily, it's iPad-only digital newspaper publication, would be stopping its standalone publication effective December 15,... read more Matt Burns The New iMac: Designed By Apple In California, Assembled In USA Your next Mac could be assembled in America. Apple is assembling at least some of the new, ultra-thin iMacs within the USA. The backside stamp containing the... read more John Biggs Happy Birthday, SMS! On December 3rd, 1992 in the little town of Newbury, Berkshire, a UK programmer sent his best mate a few lines of greeting using a unique new technique called... read more Steve O'Hear Crazy-Stupid Or The Future? SoPost Wants To Turn Your Twitter Handle Into A Physical Address Chalk this one up as crazy-stupid or the future: SoPost, a new UK startup launching today, is on a mission to reinvent the postal address by mapping things like... read more Ingrid Lunden iTunes Event Taking Place In Moscow On Dec 4: Is Russia Finally Getting Apple's Music Service? At long last, Apple appears to be approaching a launch date for iTunes in Russia -- and it could come as soon as tomorrow. A tipster has forwarded us an email,... read more Mike Butcher Droplet Plans To Disrupt Mobile Cash With No-Charges Payment App For iPhone It's so simple and disruptive I wonder why others haven't really tried it. Droplet is a mobile money app on iOS that lets you load cash onto your phone and send... read more Natasha Lomas Dropbox Follows The Tech Crowd, Opens Dublin Office -- Says First European Office Will Be Hub For International Ops Dropbox has become the latest tech company to open an office in Dublin -- land of Guinness and low corporate tax rates. Dropbox said the new office, its first... read more Matt Burns An Interview With Dan Gilbert, Self-Made Hometown Billionaire And The Leader Of The Detroit Renaissance After mastering the mortgage pitch, Dan Gilbert is now attempting to sell an even bigger product: Detroit.... read more Steve O'Hear Taxibeat Launches Its Taxi Driver Marketplace And Smartphone App In Paris Just In Time For LeWeb What is it about taxi startups launching in time for LeWeb? Then again, you can't beat a captive audience. And so it is that Taxibeat, the hail-a-cab smartphone... 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 // November 30, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Nov 30, 2012 Alexia Tsotsis R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy Whatever it is, it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees... read more Mike Butcher High Profile UK VC Stefan Glaenzer Faces Jail After Sexual Assault Conviction The London tech startup scene has been rocked today by revelations that a major investor is facing jail after being convicted of sexually harassing women on the... read more Alex Williams Peter Thiel And Existing Investors Put Another $49 Million In Accounting Software Company Xero PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, along with existing investors, has invested $49 million in Xero, the online accounting software for small businesses. It is... read more Darrell Etherington Google Play Narrowing The Gap On iOS For Mobile Revenue, But iOS Still Brings In 4X The Money According to a new report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie, Google's Play software store is gaining on rival Apple's iOS app marketplace. The revenue... read more Leena Rao The Netflix For Designer Clothes, Rent The Runway Raises $20M From Vogue-Publisher Condé Nast And Kleiner Perkins Rent The Runway, a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, has raised $20 million in funding led by Condé Nast Publications, with all... read more Alex Williams Basho's Amazon S3 Compatibility Gets Potent Boost With Replication Capabilities For Riak Cloud Storage Basho Technologies Riak Cloud Storage (Riak CS) now can be replicated across multiple data centers. The new capability, combined with its existing AWS S3... read more Natasha Lomas Two Reasons For RIM To Be Cheerful: U.K., Spanish Teens Still Love BlackBerrys (Well, They're Cheaper Than iPhones) BlackBerrys are still wildly popular with a certain cash-strapped sub-set of mobile users in parts of Europe: namely teenagers. A wide-ranging research report... read more John Biggs Video: How Reddit Was Born There are only a few founders that I really like and Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are two of them. These lads, with their bright-eyed charm and genuinely... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Vets Carriers For 4G Performance Before Allowing iPhone 5 To Be Sold As An LTE Device Apple wants to ensure that customer experience with its iPhone 5 lives up to what the company is promising, and it will take strong measures to do so, including... read more Anthony Ha Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K Plyfe, a startup that allows brands to promote themselves through games and rewards, is moving onto mobile today — Plyfe games can now be played on the... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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