Top Stories of the Day // September 28, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 28, 2012 Jordan Crook Tim Cook Apologizes For Apple Maps, Points To Competitive Alternatives Apple CEO Tim Cook has written an open letter on Apple's website, finally apologizing for the Maps drama that's been unfolding over the past few weeks with the... read more Matt Burns Google Maps, Now With More High-Res Satellite And 45° Aerial Imagery Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now... read more Alexia Tsotsis If You Had Remote Access To Your Neighbor's Printer, What Would You Print? read more Rip Empson Which Founders Use FoundersCard? Craig Newmark, Kevin Rose, Leah Busque & 8K Others In 2009, Eric Kuhn created FoundersCard as a way to give entrepreneurs the same kind of elite programs, perks and networking opportunities traditionally... read more Gregory Ferenstein Employers Banned From Asking For Social Media Passwords In California A newly signed California law forbids employers and universities from asking employees and applicants for their social media passwords. The law was hastily... read more Natasha Lomas BlackBerry 10 Touch, Qwerty Devices Leak In Video; RIM Wants Lady Gaga To Help Sell BB10 RIM is still bathing in the afterglow of yesterday's Q2 2013 fiscal results not being as awful as some had feared. The company remains in the invidious position... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iPhone 5 Availability Expands: What It Means To Regional Carriers Apple isn't delaying bringing its latest iPhone to regional carriers this time around, with launches across the U.S. going out today, at a list of carriers that... read more Rip Empson MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry Thanks to the HomeAways and Airbnbs of the world, more and more people are looking to rent their apartments and homes. There are currently some six million... read more Jordan Crook An Afternoon With Bad Piggies, Rovio's Next Hit You've probably already heard, but just in case you forgot to wear your Angry Birds merchandise, Bad Piggies has just hit the scene. It's Rovio's latest and... read more John Biggs Neil Young Begins His Long Quest Towards True Audio Fidelity With Pono, A New Music Service And Device Singer-songwriter-rocker Neil Young has been talking about problems with modern audio codecs for decades. He was angry at CDs back in the 1990s and most... 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 // September 27, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 27, 2012 Darrell Etherington Google's Eric Schmidt Talks Apple Partnership, Samsung And Patent Problems Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is in Seoul attending the launch of the Nexus 7 in Korea Thursday, and he's been very talkative on a number of topics, as... read more Alexia Tsotsis and Eric Eldon Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuation North Of $2B It's the darling of "sharing economy" startups, Y Combinator and a good portion of Silicon Valley's top investors, and a symbol of consumer web startups moving... read more Peter Ha RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Sad RIM is holding some sort of developer conference this week somewhere in North America. It's unclear what they actually announced or revealed because everyone... read more Matt Burns Watch Google's Eric Schmidt Dance Gangnam Style Yep. This really happened on a recent Asian business trip to help launch the Nexus 7. Good for Schmidt. Homeboy knows how to have fun. Next up, Steve Ballmer... read more Matt Burns RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Inspiring RIM is holding its yearly developers conference this week, playing host to over a thousand developers still dedicated to the BlackBerry platform. The company... read more John Biggs Pew Pew Pew! iPhone 5 Destroyed By Lasers [Video] I've avoided posting videos of people shooting the iPhone with bullets, dropping iPhones into squirrel pens, and ingesting and then excreting iPhones because I... read more Jordan Crook Rovio's Bad Piggies Goes Live In The App Store: Build Bridges, Don't Burn Them Angry Birds is now a household name. Even Rovio (the company responsible for the ultra-successful bird-flinging app) is a logo as familiar as EA's. But today... read more Mike Butcher Live From Rome — It's The TechCrunch Italy CrunchUp #TCItaly We're delighted to showcase Italian startups at our CrunchUp event in Rome today, which we've dubbed TechCrunch Italy. Check out the live stream. Our thanks to... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents In-Screen Speakers, Flexible Displays And Tactile Keyboards For Future iPhones And iPads Apple has published a new patent today, one that takes the possibilities for future iOS mobile devices and adds a whole heap of abilities seemingly ripped from... read more Ingrid Lunden Firefox OS Will Have 'Niche' 1% Of Smartphones In 2013, As Android Corners Low-Cost Segment Google's Android smartphone OS is facing a lot of challengers in the low-cost smartphone segment, from Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Nokia at the vendor end 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 // September 26, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 26, 2012 Jon Orlin A Sneak Peek At The New Yahoo Home Page Redesign? TechCrunch has obtained a secret copy of what may be a mockup for the new Yahoo home page. Yesterday, Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer shared her broad vision for... read more Matt Burns Google Maps Goes Diving, Provides "Seaview" Of Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii and Philippines Thanks to a partnership with The Catlin Seaview Survey, Google Maps now displays StreetView-ish images of the Great Barrier Reef and popular underwater spots... read more Darrell Etherington Survey: iOS 6 Leads To Decrease In Device Satisfaction Among iPhone Users Apple's iOS 6 doesn't appear to be doing the company any favors when it comes to user satisfaction, according to a new poll conducted by mobile customer... read more Chris Velazco Google's Play Store Hits 25 Billion App Downloads, Kicks Off Five Day Sale To Celebrate Well, that didn't take too long. Google has just announced that it now has another app-related milestone under its belt. According to a new post on the official... read more Natasha Lomas Samsung Speedily Plugs Remote Wipe Flaw, Urges Galaxy SIII Owners To Update Yesterday we reported that select Samsung handsets running its TouchWiz UI were affected by a flaw that could allow them to be remotely wiped after clicking on... read more Ingrid Lunden Senator Rockefeller Warns Google, Microsoft And Yahoo: Dodgy Movers Are Using SEO To Game Your Systems John D. Rockefeller, the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, late on Tuesday sent letters to Google, Microsoft and... read more Matt Burns Watch out, RIAA: Kim Dotcom Is Back And Teasing Megaupload's Upcoming Music Service, Megabox Megaupload will not be stopped. After a dramatic take-down followed by an anticlimactic trial, Kim Dotcom is quickly rebuilding the Megaupload empire.... read more Darrell Etherington Forrester: iPhone App Users Young And Wealthy, Android App Users Skew Older According to a new Forrester Research report, among U.S. mobile device users, those who use apps tend to be younger and more affluent than those who stick just... read more Jordan Crook Hands-On With B&N's 7" Nook HD, 9" Nook HD+: The Fire HD Better Watch Its Back B&N is making some big strides in the land of digital, and though these new tablets aren't the most gorgeous slates I've ever seen, they do have what it... read more Natasha Lomas Samsung's Mobile Chief To Meet Google's Schmidt -- Apple Patents Battle On The Agenda? Samsung's mobile chief Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google's Eric Schmidt on Thursday to discuss Samsung's patents battle with Apple, The Korea Times is... 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 // September 25, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Sep 25, 2012 Drew Olanoff Eric Schmidt: Google Hasn't Submitted A Native Google Maps App To Apple (Yet) According to Reuters, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told a crowd of reporters that the company has not submitted a native Google Maps app to Apple as of yet. read more Matt Burns Lytro Expands Retail Presence, To Be Available Next Month From Amazon, Target, And Best Buy The $399 Lytro camera is a marvel of imaging technology and it will soon be a whole lot easier to buy. Starting in early October, the novel camera is hitting... read more John Biggs The Story Of An Internet Troll With A Surprising Twist You get a thick skin when messing around on the Internet, and that can go either way. You can react, like a nerve burned raw, or you can become a troll. This is... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's Schiller On #ScratchGate: Aluminum Scratching Is Normal Apple SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller has reportedly responded to a customer complaint regarding the scratching border of a black and slate iPhone 5, via an... read more Jordan Crook The Ostrich Pillow: Because Who Doesn't Love A Good Nap? I tend to take naps everywhere — on park benches, at my kitchen table after lunch, and most certainly on the subway. In fact, I'm convinced that I have some... read more Natasha Lomas Nokia Unboxes Cheapest Touchscreen Phones Yet: Series 40-Based Asha 308, Asha 309 Nokia has announced its cheapest capacitive touchscreen Ashas to date: the Asha 309 and the Asha 308 were unboxed in Jakarta, Indonesia, and like the rest of... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's Thinner Display On iPhone 5 Likely Causing Supply Constraints One of the reasons Apple's supply of iPhone 5 devices couldn't meet the opening weekend demand may be due to its decision to use thinner touchscreens vs.... read more Chris Velazco Got TouchWiz? Some Samsung Smartphones Can Be Totally Wiped By Clicking A Link I've never been a huge fan of the TouchWiz UI Samsung throws onto most of its smartphones (for aesthetic reasons, mostly), but now it seems there's another... read more Natasha Lomas Finally A TV Ad That Encourages Hand Gestures: Brainient Taps Kinect For Interactive TV Ads European online video startup, Brainient, whose BrainRolls system enables advertisers to incorporate interactive elements into online video adverts to boost... read more Ingrid Lunden JP Morgan Invests 'Significant Double Digit Millions' In Another Rocket Internet Fashion Site, Asia's Zalora Less than a month after reportedly sinking $40-80 million into Lamoda, Rocket Internet's "Russian Zappos", JP Morgan is investing once again in the Samwer... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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