Top Stories of the Day // July 27, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 27, 2013 John Biggs Are Adidas Springblades The New Crazy Monkey Shoes? It is a point of pride and, to an extent, shame that I introduced the TC audience to minimal running shoes aka crazy monkey shoes. Since first reviewing odd... read more Alexia Tsotsis Someone Please Actually Hack Chipotle's Twitter Account For whatever reason, this week has felt particularly long. It might be some astrological reason like Mercury rising. Or it might be just the emotions that are a... read more Billy Gallagher Y Combinator Backed DoorDash Delivers Food Quickly In South Bay, Hopes To Expand Beyond Food DoorDash, a Y Combinator summer '13 company, delivers food from restaurants in Palo Alto and Mountain View in an average time of 45 minutes.... read more Rip Empson Zenefits Lands $2.1M From Venrock, Maverick, Aaron Levie, Charlie Cheever And More To Automate Startup HR For small businesses, managing health insurance and payroll services can be a huge pain and time-sink. They probably don't have someone on staff dedicated to... read more Jon Evans Technology and the Ruling Party "Power tends to corrupt," said Lord Acton, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely."... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CrunchGov Daily Roundup Gregory Ferenstein U.S. To Russia: We Won’t Kill Or Torture Snowden The U.S. has pledged not to seek the death penalty for NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden. To persuade the Minister of Justice to give up Snowden, it appears that… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // July 26, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 26, 2013 Josh Constine Prim Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome You can call it a first-world problem. Or you can say it distracts people from their passions and contributions to the world. Either way, laundry is a chore,... read more Natasha Lomas Android 4.3 Includes Hidden App Permissions Manager That Could Bolster Privacy & Security Google officially confirmed Android 4.3 on Wednesday. Among the new features/improvements in the update are Bluetooth Low Energy support, performance... read more Greg Kumparak Google's Chromecast No Longer Comes With Free Netflix Because Demand Got Too Nuts In what is a solid example of the best sort of problem to have, Google's just-announced Chromecast video streaming dongle is already proving too damned popular... read more Kim-Mai Cutler A Week With The Shine, A Beautifully Designed Smart Activity Tracker Made From Japanese Metal read more Kim-Mai Cutler Timehop, The Place To Reminisce Online, Raises $3M Led By Spark Capital read more Darrell Etherington Google's Instant Translators Could Become The Universal Tongue Google likes to create things that gather data, which can be used to determine intent and for all kinds of profitable purposes. There's no bigger fish in that... read more Natasha Lomas Asian Mobile Makers Squeeze Apple's Global Smartphone Share To Its Lowest For 3-Years In Record 230M Unit Q2 More proof, if proof were needed, that Apple needs a low cost iPhone to get its smartphone momentum mojo back: Cupertino's share of the global smartphone market... read more Sarah Perez Google Kills Google+ Local For iOS, App Now Pulled From iTunes App Store According to a report circulating the web, Google is officially retiring its Google+ Local application for iOS as of August 7th. However, as far as we can tell,... read more Leena Rao Personalized Financial Planning Service LearnVest Raises $16.5M From Accel, American Express And Others LearnVest, a personalized financial planning program, has raised $16.5 million in strategic funding from existing investor Accel Partners, and new investors:... read more Darrell Etherington The iblazr Flash Illuminates Your Smartphone And Tablet Photos, Preventing Black Square Syndrome 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 // July 25, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 25, 2013 Gregory Ferenstein A List Of Congressmen Who Voted For & Against The Amendment To Stop NSA Spying read more Darrell Etherington Lomography's Kickstarter-Backed Petzval DSLR Lens Is A Portrait Hero Some companies have taken to using Kickstarter as almost a default step in their product pipeline, and New York's Lomography is one of them. The photography... read more Stephanie Yang BarEye App Lets You Buy And Send Drinks From Your Phone read more Ingrid Lunden Ilya Segalovich, Co-Founder And CTO Of Russian Search Giant Yandex, On Life Support From Complications With Cancer UPDATE: Yandex, sadly, announced Segalovich's death prematurely. A company spokesperson informed media early today that Segalovich is still alive, although on... read more Sarah Perez The Problem With Android's New "Kid Mode" With the release of the newest version of Google's Android operating system (version 4.3, still known as Jelly Bean), the company is making Android tablet... read more Natasha Lomas After A Week Of iOS Dev Site Downtime, Apple Creates Status Page To Show Which Services Are Back Online It's been more than a week and Apple's developer website is still down, following what turned out to be a hacking breach (which may or may not have been caused... read more Ingrid Lunden LinkedIn Raises Its Game In Infographics And Analytics With New SlideShare Upgrade Infographics are one of the most-maligned, yet most popular, ways that people share data with others, and today LinkedIn is releasing two infographics-related... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Working On Location-Aware Battery Management For iPhone Apple has been tinkering with ways to make the iPhone better at managing battery life intelligently based on usage pattern, a new patent filing published by the... read more Rip Empson Warby-As-A-Service? Backed By Reddit, Posterous Founders, Eponym Helps Brands Build And Distribute Their Own Eyewear Over the last few years, a new wave of startups has emerged to tackle a range of inefficient, ignored or offline segments within the massive world of fashion... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iPhone 4 Drives Global Growth: Here's What It Means For A New, Low-Cost iPhone Model Apple is cashing in big on three-year old tech, according to its earnings results last night. As the Wall Street Journal points out, it's seeing the iPhone 4... 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 // July 24, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register now! Today's Top Stories // Jul 24, 2013 Greg Kumparak Live From Google's Mystery Announcement With Android Head Sundar Pichai We're live from San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, where Google has asked a couple dozen of us tech-minded folk to join them for the announcement of…... read more John Biggs Shared.Com Takes On Mega, Dropbox With 100GB Of Free Storage Space Share Media is a four-person, bootstrapped company that aims to take on Kim Dotcom. Their service, basically a way to drag and drop files and instantly share... read more Greg Kumparak Here's The Live Video Stream Of Google's (New Nexus 7?) Announcement What's that? Too cool for our liveblog of the mystery* Google announcement this morning? That's okay. I understand, I guess. [Sniffle]... read more Dan Frommer Apple's Growth Rocket Has Hit A Wall. What Will Get It Started Again? read more alexjameswilhelm Who Honestly Wants Bill Gates To Come Back And Run Microsoft? Bill Gates is not coming back to Microsoft as its CEO. He's not. He's said so again and again. And yet, today, some unsourced rumors began to circulate that... read more Sarah Perez Video Texting App Glide Is Going Viral, Now Ranked Just Ahead Of Instagram In App Store Video chatting app Glide is on a roll of sorts. In recent weeks this mobile messenger for iPhone and Android devices has been climbing the app store charts on... read more Rip Empson John Doerr On Zynga Investment: "We Own 60M Shares, So I Want That Stock Back Above $10 ... Where God Intended It" Investors tend not to be cool, sexy or "famous" in the traditional sense. After all, anyone can invest in one great company, but reproducing those victories... read more Natasha Lomas DexType's Virtual Keyboard Software Lets Leap Motion Owners Type In Mid Air The motion-sensing Leap Motion Controller, which lets users eschew the traditional keyboard plus mouse combo and interact with their computers via gestures,... read more Darrell Etherington Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Gets A Pledge Price Drop To Keep The Money Rolling In For That $32M Funding Goal The Ubuntu Edge is the amazing future space phone of your dreams, which is why UK-based Canonical feels it needs $32 million to make the thing. The Ubuntu... read more Anthony Ha You Don't Have To Love Apple To Use LightSpeed's Retail Software, Thanks To LightSpeed Cloud LightSpeed, an Accel-backed company offering tools for physical retailers to both manage their business and engage their customers, is aiming at a new audience... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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