Top Stories of the Day // April 4, 2013

	Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 and brings to the stage: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and guests like Ron Conway, John Donahoe, and many more. Register here before April 11th and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Apr 4, 2013 Drew Olanoff Former Google AdSense Director, Kim Malone Scott, Leaves Dropbox After Just Four Months read more Josh Constine What The Facebook Phone Actually Means Ambient intimacy, accelerated social life, thawed relations between Google and Facebook, and an iPhone that looks impersonal by comparison. These are just a few... read more Josh Constine Facebook Phone International, Bringing The Developing World Online Social-First Facebook's next billion users don't have smartphones or even the Internet yet, but the Facebook Phone could change that. Through savvy carrier deals, subsidized... read more Michael Seo LinkMe Is An LED Smart Bracelet That Displays Scrolling Lines Of Text LinkMe is an LED smart bracelet that connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth and displays SMS and social media updates in text that scrolls across your wrist.... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iMessage Encryption "Impossible To Intercept" For Surveillance Purposes, Claims DEA Report Apple's iMessage text messaging replacement and chat service has frustrated U.S. federal agents looking to get access to suspect communications, a new report... read more Darrell Etherington Netflix Confirms 15 New Episodes Of Arrested Development Landing May 26 At 12:01 AM PT Netflix has finally revealed exactly when we'll be able to get our new Arrested Development fix: May 26, 2013 will see the debut of 15 new episodes of the Mitch... read more John Biggs The Idiocy Of The Social Animal As we move closer to the launch of the (probably awful) Facebook phone, let's examine just what the social network and its ilk have created. Millions of us use... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus Budget Reportedly Balloons To $5B, Will Look To Cut $1B Before Proceeding Apple's massive new spaceship-style headquarters in Cupertino is not on-budget or on schedule, according to a new report at Bloomberg Businessweek. The article... read more Greg Kumparak Watch The Facebook Phone Event Live Stream Here Are you ready for a Facebook Phone? Because it's a-comin'. Zuck should take the stage at 10 A.M Pacific this morning, where he'll be showing off the company's... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents A Convertible MacBook Design, And Street View Navigation That Can Go Inside Buildings A couple of new Apple patent applications published today show how the company might be thinking about competing with recent innovations from other big tech... 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 // April 3, 2013

	Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 and brings to the stage: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and guests like Ron Conway, John Donahoe, and many more. Register here before April 11th and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Apr 3, 2013 Ryan Lawler Simple.TV Raises $5.7 Million From New World Ventures To Move Beyond Its DVR Box When it comes to streaming boxes, Simple.TV is a bit of an outlier, as it performs all the usual functions as a DVR, but it can then stream video that it... 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 // April 2, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Apr 2, 2013 Alexia Tsotsis Facebook In Talks To Buy Bang With Friends Facebook is in the process of acquiring startup Bang With Friends, according to multiple sources, in order to make a foray into the online dating space.... read more Frederic Lardinois Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers, A $25 USB Stick With Windows 8 Pro And Parallels For Mac read more Greg Kumparak Why Facebook Home Is Potentially Brilliant Let's say we build a phone, theoretically. We're not! But if we did, we could get maybe 10 million people to use it. 20 million. That doesn't move the needle... read more Darrell Etherington Funny Or Die's Steve Jobs Movie Trailer Looks To Strike A Perfect Balance Of All Hype, No Substance Steve Jobs was a rare CEO in that he inspired myths and legends not just among employees, but also among the general public. An executive whose name is... read more Darrell Etherington HTC One Pre-Sales Start At AT&T April 4 For $199.99, Smartphone Ships April 19 HTC's great aluminum hope, the HTC One, will be available on AT&T beginning April 19, with pre-orders starting April 4. The smartphone will cost $199.99... read more Ingrid Lunden Google Adds Twilio For The First Voice And Messaging APIs Available Through The Google Cloud Platform And App Engine read more Alex Williams Nearly Two Years Later, Nebula Launches A Mainframe Style "Cloud Computer" Built On OpenStack read more Jordan Crook Rosetta Stone Buys Up Online Language Learning Community Livemocha For $8.5M In Cash Rosetta Stone has just acquired Seattle-based online language-learning community Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash. Livemocha has one of the largest online... read more Kim-Mai Cutler TechCrunch Is Breaking Into Real-Money Gaming read more Darrell Etherington Midokura Scores $17.3M Series A To Ramp Up Its Network Virtualization Offering On A Global Scale Japan's Midokura, a startup with offices in SF, Tokyo, Lausanne and Barcelona, today announced a $17.3 million Series A funding round, led by Innovation Network... 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 // April 1, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Apr 1, 2013 Drew Olanoff Google Introduces "Gmail Blue" -- It's Completely Blue, Because Brown Was a "Disaster" read more Rip Empson April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that's right, we've reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history... read more Greg Kumparak What Does A Ghost Smell Like? Google Nose. Google is shutting down YouTube? Good riddance! There hasn't been a video worth watching since Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract anyway.... read more Drew Olanoff Twitter Announces "Twttr" -- Will Start Charging $5 A Month If You Want To Tweet Using Vowels read more Jordan Crook Apple's iWatch Is Actually Just A Wrist Band That Attaches To Your iPhone, iPad The much-rumored Apple iWatch isn't as exciting as you might have thought.... read more Victoria Ho Singaporean Sushi Bar Acquires Tech Firm, Turns Founders Into Sushi Chefs read more Victoria Ho Reinventing Job Classifieds Shows How Much Room There Remains For Fresh Ideas read more Ingrid Lunden and Rip Empson EBay Beats Out Amazon To Lead $50M Round In India's E-Commerce Giant Snapdeal To Build Up Its BRIC Business Online e-commerce giant eBay last week said that it expects to have 12% of its sales coming from BRIC countries by 2015 in a global e-commerce market that will... read more Matt Burns Tesla Kills The Entry-Level, 40 kWh Model S Citing Poor Demand The Model S just got a little more expensive. Tesla just announced that the company will no longer offer the least expensive Model S electric sedan. Per a Tesla... read more Anthony Ha Nuance Announces Voice Ads, So You Can Talk To Mobile Advertising Nuance, a company known for its voice technology, is getting into the advertising business.... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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