Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // April 28, 2015

Apple Now Has $194 Billion In Cash |
SimplyCook Is A Recipe-Kit Startup That Avoids Being In The Fresh Food Delivery Business |
Facebook Messenger Launches Free VOIP Video Calls Over Cellular And Wi-Fi |
Vivaldi Browser Now Features Improved Support For Large Screens, Mouse Gestures And More |
Tencent Introduces An Operating System For Smart Devices And Wearables |
Maple Launches In NYC’s Financial District With A Fresh Approach To Food Delivery |
SwiftKey Debuts “Clarity,” An Experimental Keyboard Featuring Multi-Word Autocorrect |
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Today's Top Stories // Apr 28, 2015

Apple Now Has $194 Billion In Cash

Apple, the word's most valuable corporation, has a new cash tally: $194 billion. That's to say that if you add up its cash, cash equivalents, short-term... read more

SimplyCook Is A Recipe-Kit Startup That Avoids Being In The Fresh Food Delivery Business

U.K. startup SimplyCook is another recipe kit service. However, unlike competitors HelloFresh, Gousto, Marley Spoon, and Shuttlecook, the company doesn't send... read more

Facebook Messenger Launches Free VOIP Video Calls Over Cellular And Wi-Fi

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Vivaldi Browser Now Features Improved Support For Large Screens, Mouse Gestures And More

Vivaldi, the browser project headed by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, continues on its march toward its 1.0 release. Today, the company is launching its... read more

Tencent Introduces An Operating System For Smart Devices And Wearables

Tencent today unveiled an operating system for smartwatches, TVs and other internet-connected devices today. The system, which was first discussed last year,... read more

Maple Launches In NYC’s Financial District With A Fresh Approach To Food Delivery

I've got a pretty bad addiction to restaurant delivery service Seamless, but even I'll admit that it's not perfect — sometimes there's a long wait for food... read more

SwiftKey Debuts “Clarity,” An Experimental Keyboard Featuring Multi-Word Autocorrect

SwiftKey, the makers of one of the more popular third-party keyboard applications for Android, and more recently, iOS, is out today with a new product - an... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Time Machine

 The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded... read more

CrunchWeek: Zenefits Loves Cash, Everyone's Watching Apple, And Amazon's Epic Quarterly Report

 Another week has left us in a miasma of earnings, product releases, and something called the Apple Watch.... read more

Facebook Testing Caller Id App "Hello" | Crunch Report

 On today’s Crunch Report, Google announces Project Fi cell service, what your favorite apps will look... read more

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Monday, April 27, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // April 27, 2015

Engineering Director Lars Rasmussen Leaving Facebook To Co-Found A Music Startup |
uBeam’s Ultrasound Wireless Charging Is Real, And About To Be Really Funded |
Only Fifth Of U.S. Apple Watches Shipped Over Launch Weekend, Says Data Firm |
You Need To Be A Billion Just To Make A Million |
Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation |
Bitcoin’s Q1: Record VC Investment, Falling Prices, And Slow Consumer Adoption |
Back To The Future In Enterprise SaaS Selling |
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Today's Top Stories // Apr 27, 2015

Engineering Director Lars Rasmussen Leaving Facebook To Co-Found A Music Startup

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uBeam’s Ultrasound Wireless Charging Is Real, And About To Be Really Funded

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Only Fifth Of U.S. Apple Watches Shipped Over Launch Weekend, Says Data Firm

Apple's debut wearable, the eponymous Apple Watch, started shipping Friday -- but according to U.S. online commerce market research firm, Slice Intelligence,... read more

You Need To Be A Billion Just To Make A Million

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Internet Privacy Is The Wrong Conversation

On April 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is in hot water with government regulators in six European countries over its practice of tracking... read more

Bitcoin’s Q1: Record VC Investment, Falling Prices, And Slow Consumer Adoption

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Back To The Future In Enterprise SaaS Selling

Given the success of Box, it's hard to imagine that founder Aaron Levie believes he should have done something differently in the company's early years.... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Time Machine

 The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded... read more

CrunchWeek: Zenefits Loves Cash, Everyone's Watching Apple, And Amazon's Epic Quarterly Report

 Another week has left us in a miasma of earnings, product releases, and something called the Apple Watch.... read more

Facebook Testing Caller Id App "Hello" | Crunch Report

 On today’s Crunch Report, Google announces Project Fi cell service, what your favorite apps will look... read more

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