Top Stories of the Day // February 27, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 27, 2013 Ingrid Lunden Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Opens The Door To Samsung's Competitors: 'We'd Love To Work With You' Drew Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, said that staying independent was a key part of Dropbox's strategy; and with mobile being the most important platform for... read more Darrell Etherington Designer Imagines What An iPhone Phablet And iPhone Mini Might Look Like Big screens are the talk of the town at MWC. Got nothing else to announce that makes your handset stand out from the crowd? Throw a huge screen on the sucker.... read more Jordan Crook Bug In Kindle Update For iOS Deletes Users' Entire Library, Amazon Warns Users Not To Update Amazon yesterday updated its Kindle for iOS app, which works across iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, to version 3.6.1. The update was meant to fix a few bugs as... read more Gregory Ferenstein Computer Science Education Had A Good Day In America America's elite institutions came out in full force for computer science education. First, the House of Representatives voted to update its traditional students... read more Alexia Tsotsis Pinterest For Products Wanelo Raises At North Of $100M You wouldn't think that a Pinterest where you can buy stuff would be one of the hottest Series A deals of the quarter, but it was.... read more Darrell Etherington Adobe Debuts Photoshop Touch For Phones, Bringing The Full Power Of The Tablet Version To Your Pocket Adobe's mobile Photoshop strategy has so far kept more heavyweight editing capabilities to tablets with Photoshop Touch, and left the iPhone with Photoshop... read more Darrell Etherington Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For $79.99 Leap Motion today announced that its innovative motion controller for PCs will start shipping to pre-order buyers beginning May 13, and will launch in the U.S.... read more Natasha Lomas Why Qualcomm Wants To Bring Ultrasound Transmitters To Smartphones And Tablets Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has a track record of pushing new capabilities into its chips faster than its competitors in a bid to carve out a bigger chunk of the... read more Chris Velazco Samsung Takes Note Of Apple's Passbook And Fires Back With Its Own Wallet App I'm no great fan of Apple's Passbook, but it seems at least a few people at Samsung have taken a shine to the same general concept. Earlier today, Samsung... read more Darrell Etherington Brightcove Introduces Native Video Players For iOS And Android, Will Discontinue HTML5-Based Hybrid Approach Brightcove, one of the leading cloud content delivery providers in the world, today announced an end to a major experiment, and the start of something new for... 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 // February 26, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 26, 2013 Colleen Taylor Watch Zuck, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, & Others In Short Film To Inspire Kids To Learn How To Code Code.org, the new non-profit aimed at encouraging computer science education launched last month by entrepreneur and investor brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi, has... read more Alexia Tsotsis Rich Kids Of Google Glass You know, I'm sort of jealous. Because I've eaten something like three Po'boy sandwiches in the past three days, and every single time I've wondered, as I was... read more Anthony Ha Outbox Pours Salt On Snail Mail By Launching Its Digitizing Service In San Francisco Mail digitizing startup Outbox is launching in San Francisco today, the first step in what co-founder Will Davis says is a broader national rollout.... read more Natasha Lomas Skype Competitor Viber Hits 175 Million Users, Up From 140 Million+ In December read more Frederic Lardinois Microsoft Launches IE10 For Windows 7, Starts Auto-Upgrading IE9 Users And Launches New Ad Campagin This sure took a while, but Microsoft just announced that Internet Explorer 10 is now finally available for all Windows 7 users worldwide. Previously, the... read more Frederic Lardinois Survey: Most Developers Now Prefer HTML5 For Cross-Platform Development read more Ingrid Lunden Mozilla CEO Kovacs Pleads For Fragmentation; Says Fate Of Our Mobile World Can't Depend On Just Two Companies Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla, today took aim at Apple and Google -- or possibly Apple and Samsung; you can take your pick about how you parse mobile... read more John Biggs Meet Buddy, Another Ambitious, Crowdfunded Smart Watch Haven't we all suffered enough abuse at the hands of Big Smart Watch? No? Well now there's Buddy, a Bluetooth smartwatch that aims to solve the problems... read more John Biggs How A Teacher Turned To Technology To Solve A Thorny Problem And Raised $100K The clincher, the thing that made Quick Key go viral, was a poorly-lit video of an excitable guy holding his iPhone up to a Scantron page, one of those test... read more Josh Constine If My Phone Falls Down The Seat Crevice Again I'll Lose It. Please Redesign Meatspace. The physical world wasn't built for $500 devices we need every other minute. This is never more obvious than when I strain my back and curse like a sailor... 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 // February 25, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 25, 2013 Scott Merrill Meet ownCloud 5, The Open Source Dropbox ownCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or... read more Darrell Etherington Developers Lead When It Comes To The Future Of iOS User Interface Design Apple hasn't done much to change the way iOS works at its core, in terms of navigating within and between apps and the home screen. In fact, iOS is maybe the... read more Romain Dillet Remember webOS? LG Acquires webOS From HP, But Only Plans To Use It In Smart TVs Troubled operating system webOS isn't defunct yet. According to CNET, LG just acquired software, licenses and the team working on webOS from HP. LG plans to... read more Darrell Etherington Asus Debuts New 5-inch, 1080p, Snapdragon 600-Powered PadFone Infinity Smartphone-Tablet Hybrid, Coming April 2013 For €999 Asus introduced the new Padfone Infinity today at MWC in Barcelona. The successor to the company's hybrid tablet/smartphone has a redesign with an aluminum back... read more Victoria Ho AirWatch Gets $200 Million Series A Funding read more John Biggs Stop Trying To Make WebOS Happen. It's Not Going To Happen We need to face facts: WebOS is dead. Barring the unwavering support of the enthusiast community, the former mobile OS will never become a commercial product... read more Natasha Lomas TC Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Talks Windows Phone Alternatives, Low-End Devices And Email Ahead of its Mobile World Congress press conference today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop sat down with TechCrunch to talk about the company's dual OS strategy,... read more Natasha Lomas The Nokia Lumia 720 Is A Stylish Windows Phone 8 Cameraphone For Self-Conscious Fashionistas The 3G Nokia Lumia 720 slots into Nokia's Windows Phone 8 portfolio behind its two 4G flagships, the 920 and 820 -- with the aim of pushing some of their... read more Natasha Lomas The Nokia 301 Is An $85 Feature Phone With Smartphone-Style Camera Tricks To Nip At Android's Low End Nokia has unwrapped a new handset -- not a fancy smartphone but a budget feature phone: the Nokia 301 (pictured left) is an $85 mobile that doesn't have a... read more Natasha Lomas Hands On With Nokia's New Entry Level Windows Phone 8 Handset, The Lumia 520 (Heading Stateside In Q2) The Lumia 520 is Nokia's new entry level Windows Phone device -- costing ~$180 before taxes and coming to the U.S. in Q2. So what do you get for not-too-many... 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 // February 22, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 22, 2013 Drew Olanoff RedBus Continues To Dominate In India, But That's Not What Makes Them Special read more Jordan Crook Alleged Galaxy S IV Cases Sprout Up On The Web A handful of cases seem to have leaked out for the forthcoming Galaxy S IV smartphone from Samsung. Since the phone has not yet been announced, we should... read more Romain Dillet Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms] Back in January 2011, Orange acquired 49 percent of Dailymotion for $78 million (€59 million), and declared that they wanted to buy out the remaining 51... read more Sarah Perez The Best Platform For Online Discussion Doesn't Exist Yet Blog commenting systems are bizarre, broken and dated. TechCrunch recently switched from Facebook Comments to Livefyre - a change that, for the record, I had no... read more Josh Constine Facebook Admits Critical Bugs Caused Page Reach To Be Misreported For Months While trying to speed up its iOS and Android apps, Facebook accidentally stripped out too much data about news feed posts by Pages. This caused bugs in Page... read more Darrell Etherington Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth In a new report from mobile ad platform Millennial Media, the company compiles its data on mobile device share across its network for all of 2012, revealing... read more Gregory Ferenstein Study: Online Courses May Be The Worst For Minorities And At-Risk Students read more Catherine Shu Zendesk Hacking Affects Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter Users Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that affects users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. Zendesk said that the hacker... read more Darrell Etherington Nokia To Go Downmarket At MWC To Better Compete With Huawei And ZTE, Report Says Windows Phone 8 is Nokia's big play for the future, but as a result of focusing on those devices and their higher-end target market, the company is giving up... read more Catherine Shu Foxconn Hiring Freeze May Be Because Of Robots, Not Slack iPhone 5 Demand Apple's shares were hit after investors worried that a hiring freeze at Foxconn's China plants is related to slowing iPhone 5 sales. Foxconn suspended... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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