Top Stories of the Day // May 27, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 27, 2013 Catherine Shu Samsung Briefly Posts Galaxy S4 Mini On Its Apps Site, Adding New Credence To A Summer Release Samsung has yet to officially confirm the Galaxy S4 mini, but the smartphone's brief appearance on the company's app store earlier today backs up rumors of a... read more Gregory Ferenstein Comic XKCD Nails Google Glass Critics (Especially Congress) Everyone has an opinion about Google Glass. Some fears are justified, since, as a culture, we don't have a pristine history of social etiquette always catching... read more Natasha Lomas Turn The Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Into A Low-Cost Laptop With This Atrix Dock Hack The $35/$25 Raspberry Pi microcomputer is being used by hardware hackers to power all sorts of creative projects. Including this Raspberry Pi powered laptop,... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Bio-Hackers, Get Ready read more Leena Rao Paul Graham: 37 Y Combinator Companies Have Valuations Of Or Sold For At Least $40M Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham just tweeted an interesting data point about the valuations of YC startups. As of now, Graham says that 37 Y Combinator... read more Darrell Etherington New Workout App For Pebble Shows Why Your Wrist Might Be The New Hot Spot For Mobile Devs A new app created by Toronto-based developer and entrepreneur Alex Kennberg uses the Pebble to take users through a standard 7-minute workout (made popular... read more Anthony Ha Breaking: Company Study Shows That Company Is Totally In the Right Business I have some really big news, you guys! It turns out that if you ask people whether they want to leave their wallets at home, 83 percent of them will say yes!... read more Josh Constine Expect Facebook To Turbocharge 'Notes' Into A True Tumblr Competitor read more Victoria Ho Collabspot's Mentor Joins It, Pumps In $79,000 Of His Own Money read more Jordan Crook Fitocracy Users Come For The Gamification, But Stay For The Community It's no surprise that fitness gamification network Fitocracy is thriving — the company recently announced that it had surpassed 1 million users and has... 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 // May 24, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 24, 2013 Darrell Etherington Jony Ive's iOS 7 Flat Design Overhaul Reportedly Features A Lot Of Black And White A new report from 9to5Mac and its usually well-connected sources today adds a little more color to what we'll be seeing from the big iOS 7 redesign rumored to... read more Jordan Crook A Vibrator Called Limon No longer just an oddly flavored potato chip, the Limon is also a new sexy-time vibrator from a startup called Minna. The company is looking for backers for its... read more Darrell Etherington The Fairphone, World's First Ethically Sourced Smartphone, Opens Pre-Sales To General Public Netherlands-based hardware initiative Fairphone began around three years ago as a project designed to highlight the use of conflict minerals in the construction... read more Natasha Lomas Report: Waze Could Be In Play Again, With Google The Latest Suitor. Or Not Actually Google is the latest suitor to be reportedly circling around social sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Bloomberg reports 'people familiar with the matter' who say... read more Victoria Ho Flickr Suffers Outage Four Days After Major Revamp read more Anthony Ha AngelPad's Sixth Batch Of Startups Includes Companies Working On Drones, Storage, And More AngelPad, the San Francisco-based accelerator founded by former Googlers, held its sixth demo day yesterday. I wasn't there (I know, it's super-embarrassing),... read more Catherine Shu Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering. The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least... read more Mike Butcher Cubic Telecom Secures $5.2M To Create Devices That Roam Mobile Networks Cheaply We're all familiar with the bill shock associated with roaming abroad with our cellphones. There are plenty of players that allow you to swap out your SIM card... read more Anthony Ha Adly Raises $2M More As It Expands Tools For Social Media Celebrity Endorsements Adly, a startup that connects advertisers with celebrities willing to post promoted messages on social networks, recently raised $2 million in additional... read more Sarah Perez CommonKey Brings Password Management To Small Teams 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 // May 23, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 23, 2013 Darrell Etherington Microsoft's Cheap Shot At The iPad Actually Points Out Exactly Why Windows 8 Tabs Suck Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and... read more Greg Kumparak Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.... read more MG Siegler Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future? A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking:... read more Colleen Taylor Yahoo Acquires Gaming Infrastructure Startup PlayerScale Another day, another acquisition by Yahoo.... read more Catherine Shu Samsung Galaxy S4 Shipments Hit 10 Million One Month After Release Samsung's Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after... read more Ingrid Lunden Amazon Takes Kindle Fire HD Tablets To 170 Countries As It Ramps Up Its Appstore To Nearly 200 Markets No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the... read more Ryan Lawler Two Months After Acquisition, Mailbox Launches Its Email Management App For The iPad Sometimes, when a truly innovative startup is acquired by a larger company, innovation slows to a crawl. And other times, when an acquisition happens, a... read more Catherine Shu Square Starts Mobile Payments In Japan, Its First Country Outside Of North America, In Partnership With Visa's Ally Mobile payment platform Square has announced that it is now publicly available in Japan, its first country outside of North America. The iPhone is very popular... read more Catherine Shu OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof After Settling Patent Lawsuit OtterBox, which makes the top-selling protective case for smartphones, has announced the acquisition of LifeProof for an undisclosed amount. News of the... read more Darrell Etherington Facebook Home Hits The Rocks In Europe, With UK And France Launch Of HTC First Delayed Indefinitely More signs today the HTC First might also be the last smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed: UK carrier EE confirmed today that the first Facebook... 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 // May 22, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 22, 2013 John Biggs What Is It About Porn? An Interview With The Founders Of TheWorstDrug, A NSFW GIF Site Porn is the new Tumblr. It seems that everyone with a CS degree and a little free time is trying to cash in (or at least dabble) in the world of online... read more Ryan Lawler Snow Fail: The New York Times And Its Misunderstanding Of Copyright The New York Times spent months and had an entire team working on the creation of Snow Fall, and it shows. But what if I told you that you could recreate the... read more Ingrid Lunden All I've Heard From My Family Since The Acquisition News Began Tumblr Literary Community Organizer" Rachel Fershleiser has family who read TechCrunch. And Tumblr founder David Karp think it's the "greatest thing." read more Alexia Tsotsis He Should Have Just Spelled It JIF Then read more Darrell Etherington Google Adds Conversational Search In Latest Chrome Build, We Go Voice On Google has updated Chrome in build 27 to include conversational voice search, a feature it demoed on stage at Google I/O this year that allows you to search by... read more Kakul Srivastava and Simon Batistoni The Former Flickr Employee Guide To Tumblr Yahoo Survival Editor's note: Kakul Srivastava is CEO and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. She was General Manager for Flickr from 2004 - 2009 and helped the product grow from... read more Ingrid Lunden Zalora, Rocket Internet's SE Asian Zappos Clone, Raises $100M More From Summit, Kinnevik And More Zalora, a Zappos-style fashion e-commerce site in South East Asia backed by the Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet incubator in Germany, is today announcing its... read more Colleen Taylor Hands-On With The Scanadu Scout, The Health Gadget That's Crowdfunding Its Way To FDA Approval The last time we met with the folks from Scanadu, we had a very limited look its much buzzed-about line of gadgets that aim to bring vital sign monitoring... read more Steve O'Hear Aiming To Be The Mobile Banking App To Rule Them All, Numbrs Stashes $7.7M Of Fresh Funding Chalk this up as one to watch closely in the world of consumer fintech. Numbrs, a mobile-first banking app founded out of Swiss company builder Centralway, has... read more Darrell Etherington Amazon Debuts 'Kindle Worlds,' Where Your Gossip Girl Fan Fiction Can Earn You Cash Sometimes a writer creates a universe so compelling that others feel the need to join and help flesh out that world with their own tribute fiction. And... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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