Sunday, January 26, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // January 25, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 25, 2014

Glitch Is Causing Thousands Of Emails To Be Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account

David S. Peck is getting a lot of emails. In a glitch possibly related to the massive Gmail outage underway right now, there's an odd bug in Google search which... read more

Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes

Gmail is currently experiencing what appears to be a widespread outage, with reports coming in from Europe, the U.S., Canada, India and beyond that Google's... read more

Apple Preparing For Push Into Mobile Payments For Physical Goods, WSJ Reports

A long-rumored move by Apple is reportedly one step closer to becoming a reality today. The Wall Street Journal says that Apple is looking into a way to expand... read more

Talk About Timing: Google's Reliability Team Sat Down For An AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded

Worst. timing. ever. About an hour ago, a bunch of the engineers responsible for keeping Google alive sat down to answer questions on reddit. Know what... read more

How To Successfully “Neg” Facebook

"Facebook may have an irreversibly bad brand," wrote 22-year old Branch founder Josh Miller in December 2012 in a post about his 15-year old sister's... read more

Yahoo Acquires Virtual World Gaming Startup Cloud Party, Will Shut It Down

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Nighttime Smartphone Browsing Is Bad For Your Job

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TC Cribs: Practice Fusion, Where Keeping Fit And Healthy Is Part Of The Job

Welcome back to a brand new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that takes you inside the doors of the tech industry's... read more

Backed With $9.8M From Mayfield, Fitmob Wants To Reinvent Local, Group Fitness

The gym is being disrupted from all angles, from workout gear, the quantified self to even how we workout at home.... read more

SeaMicro's Andrew Feldman On Pulling The Thread In Entrepreneurship

I've been lucky to host many great founders here on "Founder Stories" to date, but this particular video discussion... read more

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // January 24, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 24, 2014

Facebook Hilariously Debunks Princeton Study Saying It Will Lose 80% Of Users

Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017. But now Facebook's data scientists... read more

DropTask Is A Productivity App That Does Away With To-Do Lists

To do or not to do. That is the question for anyone who has a love/hate relationship with productivity apps. I've tested out so many different to-do list,... read more

Snowden Answers Our Burning Data Collection Question: What's The Worst That Could Happen?

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Apple Is Working On Two Larger iPhones, Per WSJ

History really does repeat itself. Just like previous rumor seasons, Apple is reported to release two phones later this year. Except this time around, they... read more

Samsung Profit Growth Slows As Galaxy Faces Heat From iPhone And Cheaper Rivals

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Surface’s Solid Quarter Lends Credibility To Microsoft’s Strategic Choices

If at first you don't succeed, take a $900 million charge and try again. At least if you're Microsoft. Earlier today Microsoft reported Surface revenue of... read more

Four Indicted For Installing Undetectable Card Skimmers Inside Gas Pumps

The New York County District Attorney announced that the NYPD arrested four men on March 21, 2013 suspected of using concealed card skimming systems to grab... read more



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TC Cribs: Practice Fusion, Where Keeping Fit And Healthy Is Part Of The Job

Welcome back to a brand new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that takes you inside the doors of the tech industry's... read more

Backed With $9.8M From Mayfield, Fitmob Wants To Reinvent Local, Group Fitness

The gym is being disrupted from all angles, from workout gear, the quantified self to even how we workout at home.... read more

SeaMicro's Andrew Feldman On Pulling The Thread In Entrepreneurship

I've been lucky to host many great founders here on "Founder Stories" to date, but this particular video discussion... read more

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // January 23, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 23, 2014

Google Glass User Detained By Feds Talks About Ordeal

While some businesses are banning the high-tech wearable device Google Glass, a theatre owner in Columbus, Ohio, saw enough of a threat to call the Department... read more

Old Spice Is Back With Another Set Of Viral Things — This Time, It's Prank Websites

After a short break, Old Spice — otherwise known as "that company that makes really, really good ads and, I don't know, deodorant or something" — is... read more

iPhone 5s Owners Gobbling “Unprecedented” Levels Of Data, Study Finds

A large-scale survey of mobile data consumption in 2013 conducted by JDSU has found flagship smartphone device users are continuing to outpace the data... read more

Apple Patents Sapphire Display Tech After Last Year’s $578M Deal With Sapphire Maker

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Marissa Mayer Won CES

What's that old saying? Software will eat the world? That was never more evident than at CES 2014. Now that the dust has settled, the Gorkana Group has released... read more

Eyeing International Growth, Stripe Raises $80M From Founders Fund, Khosla And Sequoia At A $1.75B Valuation

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Glyph “Personal Theater” Goggles Beat $250K Kickstarter Goal In Four Hours

It only took four hours for the Glyph, a head-mounted "personal theater" from Avegant, to reach its $250,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. Unlike the Oculus... read more



TOP VIDEOS

Backed With $9.8M From Mayfield, Fitmob Wants To Reinvent Local, Group Fitness

The gym is being disrupted from all angles, from workout gear, the quantified self to even how we workout at home.... read more

SeaMicro's Andrew Feldman On Pulling The Thread In Entrepreneurship

I've been lucky to host many great founders here on "Founder Stories" to date, but this particular video discussion... read more

Keen On… Slava Rubin: How Indiegogo Is Reinventing Capitalism

It was one of those coincidences that social media types call serendipitous. There I was, wandering around the... read more

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