Top Stories of the Day // April 24, 2013

	The countdown is on: only 5 days left until Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 with a massive agenda featuring BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti's keynote: Everyone Is Literally Crazy. Don't miss it. Register Now. Today's Top Stories // Apr 24, 2013 Chris Velazco HTC One Review: The Competition Is Fierce, But HTC's New Flagship Rises To The Challenge Look, it's no secret that HTC knows how to put together a nice phone. Despite the quality of its wares though, HTC spent most of 2012 releasing disappointing... read more Jordan Crook Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: The S Stands For Super, Not Simple The Galaxy S4 has an easy mode, and more importantly, the Galaxy S4 needs an easy mode. This necessity is a double-edged sword. It means that the technology... read more Natasha Lomas Nokia Puts WhatsApp Hard Key On $72 Asha 210 For Asia, Africa; Qwerty S40 Handset Gets Facebook Button In Europe, Latam Nokia has announced another handset in its S40-based Asha portfolio of low end mobiles which compete with the budget end of Android and cheap BlackBerrys. The... read more Gregory Ferenstein Obama's Fmr. Chief Economic Advisor On Bitcoin's Usefulness: "Hahahaha. ROTFL" read more Greg Kumparak Swype Finally Rolls Out Of Beta, Hits The Google Play Store For $0.99 Way back in March of 2010, Swype launched a super private Beta of its then totally mind-blowing swipe-to-type Android keyboard. While they've since shipped it... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Through Dirt-Cheap Genetic Testing, Counsyl Is Pioneering A New Bioinformatics Wave read more Darrell Etherington The BlackBerry Q10 Is A QWERTY Keyboard Smartphone Comeback Worth Waiting For The BlackBerry Q10 is, some might say, the BlackBerry OS 10 device that the company should have led with, ahead of its all-touch Z10. That's because it sports a... read more Darrell Etherington WWDC 2013 Tickets On Sale April 25 At 10AM PT, Runs June 10-14 Apple has just released the official announcement for its 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference. Every year, it releases tickets for the developer-focused event... read more John Biggs Fool Me Twice, Shame On You: AP's Twitter Feed Has No Followers, Still Showing Hoaxed Tweet This Morning We all make mistakes, but for the AP and Twitter to futz up a phishing attack so royally is an embarrassment. As you'll recall, the Associated Press' Twitter... read more Catherine Shu After Years Of Government Scrutiny Over Security Concerns, Huawei Says It's Quitting The U.S. Huawei, the world's second-largest supplier of network gear by revenue, is pulling out of the U.S. after it sales efforts have been repeatedly stymied due to... 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 23, 2013

	The countdown is on: only 6 days left until Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 with a massive agenda that includes speakers like Chris Dixon, Mike McCue, David Tisch, Naval Ravikant, Dave Gilboa and more. Register Here! Today's Top Stories // Apr 23, 2013 Greg Kumparak Want To Raise A Million Bucks? Here's What You'll Need So, you've built yourself a nice little product. Maybe you've raised a small friends-and-family round; maybe you're still bootstrappin' it solo. Either way, now... read more Catherine Shu Psy's "Gentleman" Hits New YouTube Record With 38M Views In One Day "Gangnam Style" was the first video to hit 1 billion views on YouTube, a milestone it reached last December. Though arguably less catchy, Psy's followup video... read more Ryan Lawler What Not To Do In Your Startup Promo Video Every now and then I see something so ridiculously stupid, it's just begging to be called out. That's the case with this promotional video from the kind folks... read more Darrell Etherington Firefox OS Developer Phones Sold Out After First Few Hours On Sale, But More Are On The Way Geeksphone, the smartphone OEM startup based out of Madrid, put the first Firefox OS developer phones on sale early this morning, offering the Keon for $119 and... read more Leena Rao Fab Is Raising A Mondo Round At A $1 Billion Valuation We're hearing from multiple sources that design-focused retail site Fab is raising a new round of funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company has previously... read more Romain Dillet With Earnings Around The Corner, Apple's Growth Prospects Are Gloomy read more Michael Seo Infinity Cell Lets You Charge Your iPhone Simply By Shaking It The Infinity Cell is a kinetic charger for the iPhone that uses your body's movement to generate electricity. The current prototype for the Infinity Cell is a... read more Natasha Lomas Verizon To Offer Nokia Lumia 928 From Next Month, Reports Bloomberg Nokia looks like it's hoping to turn up the volume of its Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones in the US by signing another carrier to its cause. Bloomberg is... read more Rip Empson Education Giant Pearson Continues Digital Push, Acquires Flipped Classroom Managers, Learning Catalytics Educational publishing giant, Pearson, has lately been making a push to snatch up (and incubate) promising young EdTech startups and concepts to help it compete... read more Darrell Etherington Sony Launches An Android Open Source Project For The Xperia Z Smartphone Sony has decided to release a sequel to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for Xperia S it began in August of 2012, and took over from Google in November 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 // April 22, 2013

	The countdown is on: only 7 days left until Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 with a massive agenda that includes speakers like Chris Dixon, Mike McCue, David Tisch, Naval Ravikant, Dave Gilboa and more. Register Here! Today's Top Stories // Apr 22, 2013 Jordan Crook Facebook Home Hits 500K Downloads In Five Days, Pales In Comparison To Instagram's Android Shift It would appear that Facebook Home has just surpassed 500k downloads on Google Play since launching on the platform five days ago on April 16. The app's Google... read more Darrell Etherington HTC Now Offers 32GB Unlocked HTC One Via Its Web Store HTC really wants you to buy an HTC One, and it's making sure that you have every opportunity to do so. First, it opened up pre-orders for the HTC One Developer... read more Darrell Etherington Google Now Could Arrive On The Web, Making The Timely Assistant Truly Cross-Platform Google Now is one of the best things to happen to Android in a while, and now new code discovered in a sample page taken from Google itself suggests it could... read more Darrell Etherington How Will We Define A "Good" Google Glass Experience? Google Glass is getting closer and closer to becoming a shipping product. It's already making its way out to early "Explorer" program pre-launch testers, and... read more John Biggs Microsoft Will Reportedly (Sort Of) Bring Back The Start Button In Windows 8.1 Our long, national nightmare is over: according to a rumor sourced by the Verge, Redmond will bring back the Start button in the lower left corner of the... read more Frederic Lardinois For Developers, Google Glass Looks To Be A Fascinating But Slightly Limited Platform read more Darrell Etherington Yahoo! Unveils Brand New iOS App, Including Built-In Summly Summaries Yahoo! acquired startup Summly for somewhere around $30 million just one month ago, but it's already bearing fruit. First, there was the Summly summarized... read more Ingrid Lunden PSA: Baidu Is *Not* Trying To Buy Zynga Looks like Baidu and Zynga are the most recent victims of a bogus press release stunt. This morning, a company called PR*Urgent put out a press release saying... read more Gregory Ferenstein Autistic Workers Can Thrive In High-Tech Jobs read more Steve O'Hear PromiseUP Launches To Gamify Your Promises So That You'll Keep Them PromiseUp, a new iOS app that sees its full launch today, has a simple but rather lofty mission: To make people keep their promises, and ultimately, make the... 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 19, 2013

	Brought to you by The countdown is on: only 10 days left until Disrupt NY returns 4/29-5/1 with a massive agenda that includes speakers like Chris Dixon, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson, Ron Conway, and many more. Register Here Today's Top Stories // Apr 19, 2013 Jordan Crook Durex's New Long-Distance Sexy Time Fundawear Is Exactly That The thought of buying underwear from the same company that makes your condoms might sound shocking at first. But don't be so quick to judge, especially where... read more Mike Butcher Woz: Apple's Share Price May Be Disappointing Now, But They Will Probably Surprise Us All Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs, said today that Apple's share price, which hit a 16-month low two days ago, is "disappointing" but that he... read more Darrell Etherington HTC One Now On Sale Across The U.S., Now We Find Out If HTC Has Done Enough The HTC One, the Taiwanese company's flagship smartphone device, goes on sale today across the U.S. at retail stores including AT&T, Sprint, Best Buy,... read more Victoria Ho Mall App Tracks Shoppers With Ultrasonic Device read more Ingrid Lunden Amazon Is Finally Setting Up Shop In Russia, Says Report, Expanding Its International Footprint Again E-commerce giant Amazon looks like it is gearing up for the latest chapter in its international expansion: an operation in Russia. According to this article in... read more Josh Constine Formation 8 Raises Its First Fund Of $448M To Plug Silicon Valley Startups Into Asian Conglomerates Formation 8 wants to bring venture capital back to its roots: investing in solutions to hard technology problems that could change the world. It just raised its... read more Drew Olanoff Google's One Today App Aims To Make Charitable Donations A More Social, And Frequent, Experience read more Rip Empson Former Googlers Launch Synergyse, An Interactive In-App Training Service For Google Apps Today, over five million businesses are now using Google Apps to help their employees collaborate and connect via the cloud. In just a few years, the adoption... read more Frederic Lardinois Airbnb Open Sources Rendr, A Library For Running Backbone.js Apps On Both Client And Server read more Ryan Lawler How Mobile Personal Assistant Donna Simplifies Your Life By Combining Design And Data I've already told you about Donna, the new mobile personal assistant from Incredible Labs. But if you haven't actually had a chance to play with the app... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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