Top Stories of the Day // January 30, 2013

	Watch the Crunchies awards show LIVE on TechCrunch from San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, starting at 7 p.m. Friday. Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Jan 30, 2013 Jordan Crook Live From RIM's BB10/Z10 Media Event In NYC After what feels like years of decline, CEO shakeups, and launch after launch of the same old stuff, RIM is turning a new maple leaf.... read more Jordan Crook Leaked Photo Gallery Shows The White Nexus 4 In All Its Glory The latest Google phone, LG's Nexus 4, is as good as it gets in the land of Android (or "Landroid," if you will). However, the handset has been plagued with... read more Howard Lindzon Why Did $AAPL Stock Go Down After Beating Earnings Estimates And $AMZN Stock Go Up After Missing? The moves in different directions for Amazon and Apple have been about expectations and guidance. Wall Street has higher expectations for Apple and... read more Darrell Etherington The Blackberry Z10 Is A Solid First Offering For BB10 Hardware, But The App Gap Looms Large BlackBerry''s big day is here, and so is the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone. A company's hopes are resting on this bold (no pun intended) new device, and to... read more Natasha Lomas The Keyboard Lives On As BlackBerry Unboxes BB10-Based Touch-Qwerty Hybrid Q10 The BlackBerry keyboard is dead, long live the BlackBerry keyboard. Despite the full throttle touchscreen focus of its new mobile platform, BlackBerry 10, RIM... read more Ingrid Lunden RIM Drops Research In Motion And Rebrands As BlackBerry, Trading As BBRY No more RIM-shots allowed if you are among those who like to joke about the trials and tribulations of the Canadian handset manufacturer. Today the company said... read more Ingrid Lunden Google Puts The Nexus 4 Back On Sale In UK, France And Spain Google yesterday started to offer the Nexus 4 once again in the Google Play stores in the U.S., Canada and Germany, and today it's started to roll it out to... read more Alex Williams Michael Dell Seeking Majority Control Of Dell Inc., Contributing As Much As $1 Billion Of His Own Personal Funds Michael Dell is trying to get control of Dell, Inc. with as much as $1 billion of his own personal funds. His goal: shift the company's focus from PC sales to a... read more Ingrid Lunden Wonder No More. Yandex Pulls Social Discovery App After Facebook Closes Door On Graph API Use + Says It's A Competing Search Engine Some closure on the story of how Yandex -- the Russian search giant -- built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and... read more Ryan Lawler Twitch Gets Embedded In Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2, Providing Instant Broadcasting Of User Gameplay E-sports streaming provider Twitch is getting a huge validation of its platform from one of the biggest video game franchises out there. Today the company 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 // January 29, 2013

	Watch the Crunchies tech awards show LIVE on TechCrunch.com from San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, starting at 7 p.m. Friday. Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Jan 29, 2013 Darrell Etherington Apple Debuts 128GB Fourth Generation Retina iPad, $799 For Wi-Fi, $929 For Wi-Fi + Cellular, On Sale Feb. 5 Rumors turned out to be correct, and Apple has launched a 128GB version of the fourth generation iPad with Retina Display. The 128GB version comes in both Wi-Fi... read more Colleen Taylor Jody Sherman, Ecomom Founder And Longtime Web Entrepreneur, Has Died Jody Sherman, a longtime web entrepreneur most recently known as the co-founder and CEO of healthy kids products site Ecomom, has passed away. He was 47.... read more Jon Orlin We'll Publish Your Story If CNET Won't Editorial independence is kind of a polemic at TechCrunch. When our corporate parent, a sister or an advertiser might have an issue with a story, we write it... read more Sarah Perez We're *This Close* To An iPhone 5 Jailbreak - And It May Arrive As Soon As Sunday A jailbreak for the iPhone 5 is, after all this time, about to become a reality. The talented hackers, who spend their days searching through iOS code in the... read more Sarah Perez Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Arrives (Half A Decade Too Late) In 2006, Google announced its first public release of what later became Google Docs, today known as Google Drive. It's 2013, and only now does it feel like... read more Gregory Ferenstein Realtime Political Fact-Checking Becomes A Reality With WaPo's 'Truth Teller' We are coming closer to a reality where no politician can ever spread well-known lies. Today, exclusively with TechCrunch, The Washington Post has launched a... read more Darrell Etherington XBMC 12 Frodo Arrives, Bringing Raspberry Pi And Android Versions, AirPlay Audio For Windows And 64bit OS X Support XBMC launched version 12.0 (codenamed Frodo) of its media center software today, bringing a ton of new features and opening up support to new platforms. As a... read more Ingrid Lunden Amazon Focuses On Cloud Video With Elastic Transcoder Services, Price-Busting + Available Everywhere Another move today from Amazon that speaks to its growing presence in content delivery and enterprise services, done at competition-beating prices: today the... read more Darrell Etherington WebEx Co-Founder Launches Moxtra, A Fresh Take On Collaboration And Collection For iPad And Web A couple of weeks ago I reported about the upcoming launch of Moxtra, a new tool from a group including many former WebEx folks that was starting a private beta... read more Catherine Shu UPDATED: Facebook Hit By Extended Outage In Several Countries Facebook is back online for everyone, according to Downrightnow and the company. A spokesperson said:... 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 // January 28, 2013

	Eng & CS students: Looking to join Dropbox, Square, or another innovative company? Sign up for the Sequoia Capital Startup Conference. Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Jan 28, 2013 Darrell Etherington Apple Reportedly Planning New Fourth-Generation iPad Model, Possibly With 128GB Of Storage Onboard New Apple product rumors from reliable sources have been few and far between lately, but this weekend the generally dependable 9t05Mac reported that a new iPad... read more Darrell Etherington Vine, Hardcore Porn Should Not Be An Editor's Pick Video Video sharing app Vine came under fire this past weekend for having a bit of a porn problem. That it has adult content on the network shouldn't surprise anyone,... read more Natasha Lomas Europe Bets €1BN And 10 Years On "Wonder Material" Graphene As A Silicon Replacement A graphene research initiative has been selected by the European Commission as one of two winners of its Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) research... read more Ingrid Lunden 59% Of All Android Tablet Usage Comes From The U.S., And The Forked Amazon Kindle Fire Is The Most Popular Brand Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world's most popular tablet platform, and some project that they may even overtake iPads later... read more Natasha Lomas Android + iOS Grabbed 92% Of Global Smartphone Shipments In Q4 2012 -- Android "Undisputed Volume Leader", Says Analyst They'd make unhappy bedfellows but -- taken together -- Google's Android platform and Apple's iOS accounted for a record 92 per cent of global smartphone... read more Darrell Etherington Zoom Raises $6M Series A, Launches Version 1.0 Of Its Radically Different Virtual Conferencing Tool Zoom, a startup founded by WebEx and Cisco veterans that wanted to make high quality video conferencing and virtual meetings accessible to everyone, instead of... read more Jordan Crook T-Mobile Joins Sprint, Verizon In Offering StarStar Me, Letting Users Replace Their Phone Number With Their Name T-Mobile has joined Sprint and Verizon in offering Zoove's StarStar Me service, letting users replace their phone number with their name.... read more Jordan Crook "Human Error" Caused Vine's DildoPlay Editor's Pick This morning, new Vine users woke up to quite the treat. Twitter's new video sharing app launched a NSFW, porn clip called "DildoPlay" to the top of the... read more Jordan Crook Barnes & Noble To Shutter One-Third Of Retail Stores Over The Next 10 Years Barnes & Noble has put up an excellent fight over the past few years against the rising tide of digital competitors like iPad, Kindle Fire, etc.... read more Natasha Lomas Chinese Government Considering Lifting Decade-Plus Games Console Ban, Says Report China is considering lifting a 12-year-plus long ban on games consoles, according to a report in the China Daily newspaper (via Reuters). The speculation sent... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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