Top Stories of the Day // June 5, 2013

	The Silicon Valley Greeks are meeting up again on June 7th and this time, we'll have a delegation of Greek tech founders and CEOs visiting us from Greece. Please register here if you're Greek or even just appreciate them. See you there! Today's Top Stories // Jun 5, 2013 Natasha Lomas The Galaxy S4 Active Is An Outdoor-Friendly Addition To Samsung's Flagship Phone Family After unboxing last week's Galaxy S4 Mini, Samsung is keeping the pedal pressed to the metal by announcing another new launch variant of its current flagship... read more Darrell Etherington Google Glass Should Be Banned For Privacy Reasons Say One In Five UK Residents, Per New Survey Google Glass isn't even a product released for public consumption yet and already people are up in arms about its effect on personal privacy. A new survey of... read more Chris Velazco FreedomPop Will Take On Carriers This Summer By Offering Smartphones And A New Freemium Phone Plan Freemium wireless internet startup FreedomPop has been out to undercut traditional wireless carriers on data plan costs for over a year now, but now the company... read more Darrell Etherington Thalmic Labs Raises $14.5M To Make The MYO Armband The Next Big Thing In Gesture Control Thalmic Labs, the Waterloo-based startup working on an all new form of user input for computing devices with the MYO amrband, today announced the close of its... read more Ryan Lawler Bloomberg Launches Bloomberg Beta, A $75 Million Early-Stage Investment Fund Led By Former IGN Exec Roy Bahat Media company Bloomberg is launching its own venture capital fund today, putting aside $75 million to invest in early-stage startups. The fund, which has... read more Frederic Lardinois Pandora Launches New HTML5-Based TV Experience, Starting With Xbox 360 and PS3 Pandora today launched a new browser-based interface for TVs that it hopes will help set the standard for using the service in the living room. The first... read more Chris Velazco HTC Hopes Shrinking The Best Android Phone Available Is The Way To Win Let's say you've created an incredibly well-received smartphone and need to create another such device to send off into an incredibly competitive market. What... read more Greg Kumparak Google Glass Updated With HDR Photography And Voice-Powered Photo Captions Are you part of the lucky bunch that got offered a pair of Google Glass and had $1,500 bucks to kick down? Good news! The camera on your set just got a whole... read more Ryan Lawler Email Management App Boxer Launches To Put You In Control Of Your Inbox The latest app to take on email is Boxer, which was founded by Pyra/Google/Thing Labs/AOL veteran Jason Shellen, along with OtherInbox alum Ian Ragsdale and the... read more Frederic Lardinois Windows RT 8.1 Update Will Bring Full Outlook 2013 Desktop App To RT Tablets This has long been rumored, but Microsoft just announced that Windows RT, its operating system for ARM-based tablets and other small touch-enabled devices, will... 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 // June 4, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Jun 4, 2013 Anthony Ha Dollar Shave Club Goes Beyond Shaving (And Declares Goal To 'Own The Bathroom') With One Wipe Charlies Dollar Shave Club, the subscription razor service incubated by Los Angeles-based Science, Inc. and backed by firms like Venrock, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &... read more Josh Constine Facebook NY Signs 10-Year Lease To Move Into ~100K Sq Ft Office With 2X Space After weeks of rumors, Facebook has just signed a ten year lease to move its New York office into a new, nearly 100,000 sq ft office over two floors at 770... read more Natasha Lomas Fiverr Updates Its Task-Based Marketplace With Slicker Look & More Buyer/Seller Tools Fiverr, an online services marketplace that gives its community of skilled sellers a platform to market and sell whatever it is they can do from as little as... read more Anthony Ha More Details On Why Zynga Laid Off 18% Of Its Workforce And How It's Shifting To Mobile Earlier today, Zynga announced that it was laying off 18 percent of its global workforce. After the news broke, I spoke to a source with knowledge of the... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Mobile App Monetization Network Tapjoy Restructures Top Management, With Some Layoffs read more Ryan Lawler Huge Labs Launches Honey, A Reddit-Like Message Board For Sharing News In Your Company Want a way to communicate with your team and are tired of doing so over email? Honey is a new communications platform that allows employees to have an internal... read more Catherine Shu Zynga Shares Plummet 12% To $2.99 After It Announces Layoffs Investors were unsettled by Zynga's announcement that it is cutting 520 employees, or almost one-fifth of its workforce, with shares plummeting 12% to $2.99,... read more Romain Dillet Sunrise Raises $2.2 Million Because "It Is The Only Calendar App With A Design-Oriented Approach" When Sunrise introduced its calendar app to iOS users, it was already a crowded space. Yet, the company just raised a $2.2 million seed round led by Resolute.vc... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Reportedly Refocuses iAd On New Streaming Music Radio Service Apple is said to be directing engineering and sales talent from its iAd business, which currently supports mobile display advertising run by Apple on iOS, to... read more Natasha Lomas Shopmium Raises $5.6M To Take Its Coupon-Powered Product Discovery App International Shopmium has closed a $5.6 million Series B round, with backing from Ventech, Accel Partners and ISAI, to roll its product discovery apps into new markets --... 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 // June 3, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Jun 3, 2013 Darrell Etherington Twitter Releases Vine For Android Smartphones As It Tops 13M Users Twitter has released Vine for Android, bringing the 6-second video sharing service to Google's mobile OS for the first time. The Vine app is available for... read more Alexia Tsotsis The Sisyphean Problem Of Email Advice that should be given to modern people considering marriage: "Before you marry, consider this, 'Is this the person I'd like to watch stare at their phone... read more Matt Burns Microsoft, Stop Trying To Make Windows RT Happen Bloomberg is reporting this morning that Microsoft is cutting the price of Windows RT for small tablets in a seemingly desperate bid to spur sales.... read more Joshua Seims Calculating The Long-Term Value Of A Bitcoin Editor's note: Joshua Seims is an angel investor and entrepreneur based in San Francisco.  He is currently building a company that provides secure storage... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Reportedly Brings Warner Music On Board For iRadio Streaming Service Ahead Of WWDC Apple has secured rights with Warner Music Group for publishing and recorded music, according to a report from the New York Times, and has recorded rights for... read more Darrell Etherington Chrome Starts To Take Off In Mobile Browser Share, But Android Dips Among Mobile Operating Systems Among mobile browsers, Safari continues to lead the pack by a wide margin according to this month's data from NetMarketShare, but the real movement is happening... read more Rip Empson EduClipper Launches Its "Pinterest For Education" To Bring Better Crowdsourced Curation & Sharing To The Classroom Back in 2007, Adam Bellow launched a site called eduTecher to aggregate and surface the best educational resources and content on the Web. A high school teacher... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's WWDC App Subtly Flattens Visual Elements, Developers Should Take Note Of The New Normal Apple's dedicated app for its Worldwide Developers Conference arrived today, and it brings a look at some of the sessions happening during the event next week,... read more Jordan Crook Grove Takes Skateboard Scraps And Turns Them Into The iPhone Skate Case If you have an iPhone, chances are you're concerned with fine craftsmanship and design, but what about being green? A new phone case out of Portland could help... read more Catherine Shu EZTABLE Targets China & SE Asia As It Seeks To Become The OpenTable Of Asia With projected revenue of $7 million this year and 100,000 monthly active users, EZTable is one of the top successes to have emerged from Taiwan's young startup... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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