Top Stories of the Day // October 29, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 29, 2012 MG Siegler As Google And Amazon Fight Up, Apple Refuses To Fight Down After this past week's Apple event, one thing stood out to me above all others. And just to make sure, I watched the event again. Same result.... read more Adrian Aoun Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google Rewind to the late 90s. Almost everything you needed – email, news, sports, stocks, maps and more – was conveniently on one site: Yahoo!. Yahoo! was the... read more Matt Burns New Nexus 7 Pricing Confirmed: $199 For 16GB, $249 For 32GB Google is dropping the price on its 7-inch tablet. The 16GB model will soon cost $199, down from the original $249 MSRP. Likewise, a new model, a 32GB flavor,... read more Drew Olanoff Badabing! For iOS Helps You Find All Of Your Facebook Friends' Bikini Pics Ok, so this app made me feel really dirty when I downloaded it. It's called Badabing! and it basically goes through your friends' photos on Facebook to pull out... read more Chris Velazco Amazon Gets Feisty, Updates Homepage To Talk Smack On The iPad Mini Competition in the low-cost tablet space has been heating up for a while now thanks to strong new hardware from the likes of Asus, Google, and Barnes &... read more Natasha Lomas Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Companion App For Syncing Media With Windows Phone 8 Devices Ahead Of Big WP8 Reveal Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event takes place later today -- where we expect to find out exactly how the integration between WP8, Microsoft's new mobile OS, and... read more Jordan Crook Major Wireless Carriers Hunker Down For Hurricane Sandy Hurricane Sandy, what may essentially be the biggest storm to hit the North Eastern seaboard in history, is barreling toward us, through the Atlantic, at this... read more Romain Dillet To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling Story "The art of narration and dramatic presentation, together with a keen sense of the oral epic style, became a characteristic quality of the Russian people."... read more Darrell Etherington Nokia Fully Details The Windows Phone 8-Powered Lumia 822, Coming To Verizon This Fall Nokia today officially announced that it will be offering the Nokia Lumia 822 as part of its "Fall portfolio," bringing the Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia 820... read more Ali Partovi The Prop 37 Phenomenon on Facebook Over the past two weeks, I've been involved in a Facebook ad campaign whose results are astonishing.  It's a political campaign supporting California's... 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 // October 26, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 26, 2012 Natasha Lomas Following The Letter Of The Law: Apple Publishes Non-Apology To Samsung On Its Website To Comply With U.K. Court Ruling read more Chris Velazco and Frederic Lardinois Scenes From Microsoft's Packed Times Square Surface Launch Driving through Times Square is a tricky proposition even on normal nights, but for a few moments tonight it was basically impossible to cruise down 7th Avenue.... read more Darrell Etherington Get An iPhone 5 That Looks Like Unicorn Poop For Only $1700 Apple only offers its iPhone 5 in sober black or white/gray, and while I respect their minimalist design sensibilities, some people might want more color... read more Matt Burns Here Comes The Nexus 4 Smartphone, 3G Nexus 7 Tablet, And The Nexus 10 iPad Killer Google is about to throw down. At next week's NYC Android event, the big G is expected yell "me too!" and reveal a full line of Nexus devices. Watch out, Mr.... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iPad Mini, 4th Gen iPad Now Available For Pre-Order – Wi-Fi Only Versions Deliver November 2 If you're looking to get your hands on an iPad mini after the big reveal this past Tuesday, now's the time to pre-order, and shoppers can choose any version of... read more John Biggs Video Game Journalist Out Of A Job For Calling Out Dead-Eyed, Dorito-Hoarding Journalists In the great, wide world of journalism, games journalism is a weird animal. Those who "practice" - and practice it well - face a barrage of PR perks, free... read more MG Siegler Cars That Fly *And* Float: Explaining Apple's Q4 And Beyond Apple's Q4 2012 results were mixed. As usual, reading Twitter, you'd think this was the end of the world. Nevermind that Amazon managed to post a loss on $13.8... read more Josh Constine Unpinned: Facebook Shuts Down Test Of Its Pinterest-Style Collections Feature No so Pinteresting after all. Facebook began testing Collections on October 8th. But today I found that product photos users collected had disappeared and links... read more Ingrid Lunden HTC Sweetens The Deal For Its Windows And One Phones With Best Deals Service In Europe To drive more consumers to its handsets in Europe, HTC is turning to exclusive content. Today the company is launching a daily deals service called Best Deals,... read more Ingrid Lunden Apple Adds 8 New Currencies Supported In App Store, Including Russian Ruble, Indian Rupee And Saudi Riyal Apple continues to go global with its App Store ambitions: the company has made eight additions to the list of supported currencies. The new currencies are the... 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 // October 25, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 25, 2012 Drew Olanoff Google Has Given Us The Gift Of One Click Access To Docs, Sheets And Slides...Oh My! I use Google products for pretty much everything, including documents, spreadsheets (ew) and slide presentations (double ew). Now that these products are... read more Frederic Lardinois Microsoft's Antoine Leblond: Windows 8 Will Have More Apps In Its Store Than Any Other Platform Had At Launch There's been a lot of chatter about the amount of apps in the Windows Store ahead of this week's Windows 8 launch. Earlier today, I had a chance to sit down... read more John Biggs One More Thing, Ad Infinitum In almost every case, the conventional wisdom is that Apple follows but does not lead. The iPad happened long after the first Windows tablets flopped and the... read more Darrell Etherington Hands On With The Canon 6D, An Affordable Full-Frame With Wi-Fi On Board Besides spending some time with the Canon EOS M, I also got to test out the Canon 6D, a new full-frame offering from the camera-maker that's set to arrive later... read more Anthony Ha Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Online real estate service Zillow is expanding its real estate listings today by adding "pre-market inventory" — specifically, homes that have either been... read more Gregory Ferenstein Google's Heart-Warming Videos Supporting Marriage Equality Laws This Election read more Anthony Ha Dhingana Raises $7M For Free, Streaming Indian Music Dhingana, a startup with a free service for streaming Indian and Bollywood music, has raised $7 million in Series B funding.... read more Darrell Etherington Hands On With The EOS M, Canon's First Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera Canon waited quite a while to get into the mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC) market, biding its time as competitors like Olympus, Panasonic and Sony... read more Natasha Lomas 12 Generous Startups: $10,000 Worth Of Web Tools (From Box, Twilio, HotGloo And More) Offered Free To 1,000 Young Startups Q: What do you do when you've shut down one startup before getting work on the next one? The answer, in Matthieu Vaxelaire's case, is help out some other... read more John Biggs Get Thee To The MacHeistery: 18+ Seriously Good Apps Are Going For $29 I would have posted this sooner but I just noticed that amazing indie game Braid and Bioshock 2 just ended up in the MacHeist bundle and popped over to the site... 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 // October 24, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 24, 2012 Matt Burns Don't Call The New Microsoft Surface RT A Tablet, This Is A PC The Microsoft Surface RT is a PC. It's not a mobile device and it's not a tablet, it's a PC. And Microsoft's first self-branded computer. It is, in short,... read more Darrell Etherington The iPad Mini Is Not Overpriced, And Sales Numbers Will Prove It Price was perhaps always the most anticipated feature of the iPad mini, and now it's proving the most controversial. My Twitter stream has been filled with... read more MG Siegler I Come Back To You Now At The Turn Of The Tide A year ago sucked. I mean, it was actually great, but it sure seemed to suck at the time. We were getting CrunchFund off the ground and I think everyone thought... read more Ingrid Lunden Yelp Pays $50M To Acquire Its Big European Rival, Qype, To Beef Up Its Recommendations And Listings Business This just in: online recommendations and listings site Yelp is stepping up its international push and buying its biggest rival in Europe, Qype. It will pay... read more Anthony Ha And Here's The Apple Video Where Jony Ive Shows Off The iPad Mini Do you want watch the by-now-obligatory product videos that Apple has created to promote its new iPad Mini, as well as the new smart covers? Sure you do.... read more Natasha Lomas Apple Vs. Samsung: Another Blow For Apple As Dutch Court Rules Samsung Does Not Infringe Multitouch Patent Another loss for Apple in the courts: a Dutch court in the Hague has ruled Samsung does not infringe an Apple multitouch patent, Reuters is reporting. Apple had... read more Natasha Lomas Online Ad Survey: Most U.S. Consumers "Annoyed" By Online Ads; Prefer TV Ads To Online; Want Social Media Dislike Button; And Reckon Most Marketing Is "A Bunch Of B.S." An Adobe poll of 1,250 U.S. consumers and marketers' views on online advertising makes amusing reading at times -- more than half agreed that 'most marketing... read more Darrell Etherington The iPad Mini And The New 13" Retina MacBook Pro Strut Their Stuff In Our Hands On Video I already shared first impressions of a lot of Apple's new products, but we've also got video from the time we spent with the iPad mini and the Retina MacBook... read more Leonid Kravets Google Sued For Patent Infringement Over Google Wallet This afternoon, Google was sued over its Google Wallet smartphone application allegedly infringing U.S. Patent No. 7,298,271 (the '271 patent) in the Federal... read more Darrell Etherington Gorilla Glass Gets Around: Now Featured On 1 Billion Devices Worldwide Corning's Gorilla Glass got famous for being the scratch-resistant front screen cover material on Apple's iPhone. Then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs talked Corning CEO... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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