Top Stories of the Day // November 29, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Nov 29, 2012 Jordan Crook Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has... read more Anthony Ha Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101' When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter... read more Rip Empson Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and... read more Ingrid Lunden NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent" Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of... read more Colleen Taylor WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up... read more Colleen Taylor The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent... read more Darrell Etherington Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an... read more Jordan Crook Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the... read more Rip Empson Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational... read more Colleen Taylor Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform Acquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a... 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 // November 28, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Nov 28, 2012 Ingrid Lunden Google's Romanian Domain Gets Defaced By Algerian Hacker MCA-CRB. Google Says: "We Were Not Hacked" Looks like Pakistan is not the only place where major internet companies' domain names can get hacked hijacked. This morning, google.ro, was taken over, with... read more Drew Olanoff #StuffMicrosoftSays: "Don't Get Scroogled," Launches Holiday Bing Campaign Microsoft just launched a full-on offensive campaign for holiday shoppers called "Scroogled." Yes, it's what you think it is, it's an attempt to tell people not... read more Darrell Etherington iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all... read more Gregory Ferenstein A Few Math Questions That US College Students Can't Answer If you can do basic subtraction, you might just be more math-savvy than a lot U.S. college students. A new research paper looks at the mathematical prowess of... read more Sarah Perez Gorgeous Photos, In Your Pocket: 500px Arrives On iPhone Hot on the heels of acquiring the makers of a popular iPhone app for browsing the photos on its service, the Toronto-based photo-sharing startup 500px is... read more Matt Burns Google Street View Visits An Arctic Town And Now Provides A Look At 90 Ski Resorts Worldwide read more Jordan Crook Kids Grow Up So Fast, But Spruceling Makes Dressing Them Much Easier If you have kids, you know this situation all too well. You buy your toddler an adorable sweater khaki combo that they grow out of almost immediately, and it's... read more Ingrid Lunden Everything.me, The Search App That Bridges The Native And HTML5 Divide, Gets $25M From Telefonica, Mozilla And Singtel Native apps are stealing the show when it comes to usage and functionality on mobile devices these days, but a lot of companies continue to hold out hope that... read more Alex Williams View Presentations On The iPhone And Edit On The iPad With New Prezi Apps read more Kim-Mai Cutler Take An Animated GIF Tour Of An Angry Birds Playground I was up in the Arctic Circle this past weekend, attempting to eat reindeer burgers, swim in non-existent ice holes and see the Northern Lights when we checked... 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 // November 27, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Nov 27, 2012 Natasha Lomas Google's Speedy-Seller Nexus 4 Smartphone Back In Stock In U.S. Play Store -- From Noon PST Today The latest 'Google phone', the LG-made Nexus 4, sold out within minutes of going on sale around the world but Android fans in the U.S. who missed out in the... read more Darrell Etherington Nintendo's Wii Mini Tipped By Best Buy Canada For December 7 Release Sony's PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 have both seen physical hardware design changes in their many years on the market, but the Wii has remained... read more Matt Burns ThinkGeek's USB Portal Sentry Turret Will Protect Your Desk, Cake Chell is standing at the edge of an bottomless pit. She sighs deeply and stares longingly across the void to the immense energy shield. She hoped there is an... read more Ingrid Lunden Kantar Worldpanel: Apple Shoots Back To Top Of U.S. Smartphone Sales On An iPhone 5 Rocket, Android Leading Elsewhere Samsung may be be the world's most popular smartphone brand, but in the influential U.S. market, Apple has climbed back to the top of the pack on the strength... read more Drew Olanoff Google Play Gets Real: Reviews Will Now Be Posted With Your Google+ Name And Picture When you visit a review on Google Play for an app, book, song or movie, you won't have to worry as much about whether someone is sheepishly hiding behind a... read more Rip Empson STEM Ed: CodeHS Wants To Teach Every American High Schooler How To Code In the Silicon Valley Distortion Field, it can seem like everyone is learning to code -- that coding has become cool. Either way you slice it, talented... read more Darrell Etherington Nintendo Makes The Wii Mini Official: $99, Lacks Internet And GameCube Compatibility, Canada-Only It's rare that we here in Canada get exclusive access to devices, especially from big manufacturers like Nintendo. But that's apparently what the Wii Mini is,... read more Ingrid Lunden Windows 8 App Store Has 3 Times As Many Downloads As Apple's Mac Store, But Only One-Fifth The Revenues, Says Distimo Microsoft made a big push to ensure that when Windows 8 went live in October, the apps in its Windows Store would not disappoint, claiming it would have more... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's Redesigned 21-inch iMac Available November 30, 27-inch Following In December Apple today clarified when it will make the new iMacs available finally, after keeping customers waiting about specific shipping timelines since their... read more Ingrid Lunden Badges Beware: 80% Of Gamification Apps Will End Up Being Losers, Says Gartner After hype cometh the fall. Gamification -- the catch-all term for rewards, incentives and loyalty services -- has become a very popular way to get users... 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 // November 26, 2012

	Today's Top Stories // Nov 26, 2012 Matt Burns Google Reportedly Preparing To Sell Self-Branded Chromebooks Google is committed to the Chromebook and a report out of China indicates a Google-branded model is on its way. If true, this is a smart move and would help the... read more Darrell Etherington Google Acquires U.S. National High-Traffic Broadband Wi-Fi Provider ICOA Inc. For $400M [Update: Nope] Update: It turns out that a PR agency or some other individual gone rogue was dead wrong on this. The announcement that crossed the wire is said to be not true... read more Darrell Etherington Former Apple Retail Chief Details Apple Store Planning And Philosophy In Unaired Video Apple's retail stores are famous, taking on almost the status of local landmarks with their flagship locations in cities like New York. But how exactly did the... read more Natasha Lomas Windows Phone 7.8: After Months Of Silence On WP7's Last Ever Update, Microsoft Says "We Hope To Share More Details In Near Future" Microsoft has been strangely silent about Windows Phone 7.8 -- the last ever update for WP7, the older version of the OS built on an entirely different kernel... read more John Biggs Chinterest Is Pinterest For Chins The lawyers revved up their sand rovers, the heavy engines rising to a whine. It was near midnight plateau was lit but huge kliegs, the light spreading across... read more Natasha Lomas Samsung Galaxy Note II 'Phablet' Passes Five Million Channel Sales In ~Two Months At the start of this month Samsung announced that channel sales of its mini-tablet-sized smartphone, the Galaxy Note II, had passed three million unit sales in... read more Kim-Mai Cutler After 20M Downloads On Android, Japan's Bitcellar Brings FxCamera To iOS Bitcellar, one of the rare Japanese app developers that faces outward from the country and reaches a global audience, is finally making a debut on iOS after a... read more Ingrid Lunden Pushing Fire Sales Outside The U.S. Amazon Says UK Black Friday Kindle Device Sales Tripled Previous Record, Stays Mum On Hard Numbers Black Friday is not just for Thanksgiving-celebrating Americans. Amazon today announced that in the UK, where it has also been running Black Friday sales, it... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Adds Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Mini And Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 To California Patent Lawsuit In ongoing legal proceedings in California, Apple has added six new devices to its patent infringement claims against rival Samsung, getting them in late Friday... read more Natasha Lomas The Facebook Button Is Back On Phones: Nokia Puts Social Networking Knobs On ~$62 Series 40 Asha 205, 205 Dual-SIM Qwerty Handsets Nokia has added another two models to its Asha range of Series 40 phones: the Asha 205, and a dual-SIM variant, both due to launch in Q4 with a price-tag in the... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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