Top Stories of the Day // March 25, 2013

	The Stanford Women In Business Design Yourself Spring Conference is taking place on Sunday April 7th, with TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis, Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel and many more in attendance. Sign up here to join! Today's Top Stories // Mar 25, 2013 Jordan Crook Nintendo Amazingly Gets Worse At Marketing Just In Time For Plummeting Wii U Sales Perhaps poor marketing is holding back Wii U sales for Nintendo. As Spike TV's GTTV host Geoff Keighley noted on Twitter, a new campaign from Nintendo is using... read more MG Siegler What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back? If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google... read more Alex Williams Oracle Is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals Something is seriously wrong in Larry Land. Oracle does not command absolute control like it once did. You can see what is happening pretty clearly when you... read more Drew Olanoff Yahoo! Continues To Attack Mobile, Buys News Gathering And Delivery Startup Summly, App Will Close read more Greg Kumparak Presefy Lets You Control Presentations With Your Phone, No Software Required read more Catherine Shu Michael Dell May Lose Control Of PC Maker After Two Competing Buyout Bids Emerge Dell's board is looking at two surprise takeover bids from Blackstone Group and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, reports Reuters citing sources close... read more Darrell Etherington Who Needs Original Content? OUYA To Launch With Nintendo 64, SNES And NES Emulation Support The OUYA Android-based gaming console is getting ready for its debut: the stated beginning shipping date for Kickstarter backers is March 28. At launch, it sill... read more Darrell Etherington HTC Will Start Being More Vocal About Its Brilliance, Confirms Camera Supply Is Behind HTC One Delay HTC has revealed that it will finally drop the frankly stupid "Quietly Brilliant" tagline it has been using for the past few years, the WSJ reports, with... read more Ingrid Lunden Roll Up, Roll Up! Startups From Brazil, India And Israel, Be A Part Of Disrupt NY 2013 We're fast approaching Disrupt NY, TechCrunch's big conference in the Big Apple taking place April 29-May 1 at the Manhattan Center. This year's event promises... read more Victoria Ho Filipino Accelerator IdeaSpace Picks Country's Top 20 Tech Startups 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 // March 22, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 22, 2013 Natasha Lomas Watch Nokia's Stephen Elop Lob Someone Else's iPhone On The Floor, Promise To Replace It Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is a man with a mission: to try to drum up interest in the company's Windows Phone line of Lumia smartphones in a market saturated with... read more John Biggs Finally, Someone Figured Out How To Use Vine Will Sasso, it is said, is an actor. If you were to, say, look for all of his Vines, you would also discover that this is the only man in the entire universe to... read more Darrell Etherington Watch Google's Sergey Brin Talk About The Emasculating Smartphone And Google Glass Google co-founder Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED Conference late in February, delivering a talk about Google Glass in which he dropped his now infamous... read more Darrell Etherington LIFX Smart Bulb Opens Up Second Batch Of 100K Pre-Orders, Demos Gesture-Based Dimming Australian hardware startup and Kickstarter success story LIFX has good news for people who missed out on backing the initial project: it's opening up a second... read more Jordan Crook Google Rumored To Be Making A Smartwatch, Too read more Ryan Lawler Five Out Of Six Game Of Thrones Cast Members Prefer The iPhone To Android TechCrunch was lucky enough to interview several of the Game of Thrones cast members before the San Francisco screening of its Season 3 Premiere. Since we work... read more John Biggs This $150,000 Mechanical Watch Is Really A Weather Station Sensor-laden watches that electronically measure the temperature, barometric pressure, and magnetic north are fairly cheap. A nice Casio can be had for about... read more Anthony Ha Personal Assistant App Sherpa Raises $1.6M Sherpa, a personal assistant app that launched initially in the Spanish-speaking world, just announced that it has raised $1.7 million in funding from... read more Catherine Shu Tokyo-Based Voyagin Gives Travelers A More Up-Close And Offbeat Look At Asian Cities For many travelers, their sense of adventure is only stymied by language barriers. With its roster of offbeat activities, however, travel site Voyagin seeks to... read more Darrell Etherington LG Is Also Said To Be Building A Smartwatch And Google Glass Competitor, As Is Everyone If you're looking for a smartwatch in the next few years, you likely won't want for choice. A new report pegs LG as developing its own take on the new category,... 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 // March 21, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 21, 2013 Darrell Etherington Apple Patents iPhone Drop Protection Mechanisms That Are Built Right Into The Device A new Apple patent filing describes a variety of methods to protect a dropped iPhone during a fall, lessening damage through a number of clever systems. The... read more Gregory Ferenstein How The Internet Is Erasing The Religious Right's Political Power The religious right isn't having a good year: the new Republican National Committee roadmap almost entirely excludes religious issues, a majority of young... read more Chris Velazco Google's Play Store Android App May Soon Get Another Facelift Google's been awfully busy these past few weeks, but it seems that between sunsetting Reader (and pissing off most of the internet in the process) and rolling... read more Ingrid Lunden To Improve Conversations, Facebook Will Launch A Reply Feature And Most Active Threads On Pages And Popular Profiles Facebook is preparing to roll out a new feature on Pages and popular Profiles that will help increase interactions with fans and readers: Replies. Up to now,... read more Catherine Shu U.S. Department Of Defense Reportedly Planning To Buy 650,000 iOS Devices After Nixing BB10 To Cut Costs The U.S. Department of Defense will order 650,000 iOS devices to replace older BlackBerry devices that are incompatible with the new BlackBerry 10 operating... read more Darrell Etherington Google's Eric Schmidt Says The Ball Is In Apple's Court For Google Now On iPhone And iPad Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was on stage today at the Google Big Tent Summit in India, and he discussed a range of topics, including Google Now.... read more Darrell Etherington Canon Unveils World's Smallest DSLR, The SL1, Along With Barely Updated T5i Entry-Level Rebel Canon has indeed introduced a new, very small DSLR as rumored earlier in the week. The SL1 (as it's known in the U.S.) is "world's smallest and lightest DSLR... read more Josh Constine British Airways Launches UnGrounded 'Innovation Lab In The Sky' To Solve Problems By Putting Techies On Planes Together British Airways today announced the first of its "UnGrounded" innovation lab flights that will assemble 100 Silicon Valley luminaries on a flight to London to... read more Natasha Lomas Google's Schmidt Says Chrome & Android Will Remain Separate -- But Don't Be Fooled: Two Years Ago He Confirmed They Will Merge Google's Eric Schmidt has said Mountain View will keep its two OSes, Android and Chrome, separate after all, according to a Reuters report. Schmidt, who is in... read more Drew Olanoff YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences 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 // March 20, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Mar 20, 2013 Catherine Shu Jawbone Releases Android UP App, Makes Wristband Available In European Apple Stores Jawbone announced today that its app for UP, the company's movement-tracking wristband, is now available for Android on Google Play. The $129 UP was previously... read more Natasha Lomas Gridcase's Reactor Is A $149 iPhone 5 Case With A Battery-Boosting Built In Hand-Crank (Or It Will Be If It Gets Crowdfunded) One of the criticisms Android fans like to level at the iPhone is its non-get-at-able battery -- meaning you can't carry a spare (or rip the battery out to hard... read more Sarah Perez Amazon Rumored To Be Working On A $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD How low will Amazon's tablets go? We're now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7" tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the... read more Josh Constine Google Embeds March Madness Bracket In Search, Because Screw Sports Sites Who wins basketball games is an immutable fact. No one owns that information, so why should some random sports sites get the windfall of traffic as millions of... read more Catherine Shu Amazon Launches 'Send to Kindle' Button For Web Developers & WordPress Blogs Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and WordPress bloggers. The... read more Darrell Etherington Withings Smart Body Analyzer Now Available For $149.95, Here's How It Performs read more Colleen Taylor The TechCrunch 'Lean In' Roundtable, Part 1: Controversy, Fear, And How To Fight It There has been a lot of buzz about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which made its chart-topping debut in... read more Natasha Lomas Fashion Site Nasty Gal Flirts With Free Shipping To Encourage Shoppers To Splurge LA-based online fashion outlet Nasty Gal, which picked up almost $50 million in funding last year in two rounds (both from Index Ventures), is now using some of... read more Sarah Perez ShareThis Aims For Mobile, With $23M Series C Led By T-Venture, Acquisition Of Social App Platform, Socialize Palo Alto-based publisher platform ShareThis, the maker of those "social sharing" buttons scattered across the web, is today announcing having closed on $23... read more Jordan Crook After Pushing Silent Update To Some, Facebook Releases Updated Android App For All On Google Play read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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