Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 31, 2013 Darrell Etherington Apple's New Product Strategy Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond... read more Victoria Ho Pirate3D Buccaneer Hits $100K Goal In 10 Minutes read more Mike Butcher Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists... read more Steve O'Hear Housebites Runs Out Of Runway For Its Airbnb For Take-Out, Reduces Staff As It Prepares Fresh Pivot Housebites, the London, UK-based startup that enables independent chefs to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a take-out, has shuttered in its current... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Saw Over One-Third Of Mobile Ad Requests In Q1, Adfonic Says, But Samsung Surges In Engagement Apple continues to rule the roost when it comes to mobile ad share, according to UK-based ad firm Adfonic, but Samsung is winning a small victory in terms of... read more Colleen Taylor StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class at AOL's... read more Natasha Lomas Fanatix Bolsters Its Seed With Another $1M As Its Mobile Social Network For Sports Fans Hits 1M Monthly Actives, Up 566% Since January Fanatix, the U.K. startup that's made a mobile-first social network for sports fans to chew over their team's performance as and after they watch them play, has... read more Natasha Lomas Fee-less Charity Donation Startup, Believe.in, Partners With Stripe To Offer Faster Payment Processing Believe.in, a VC-backed U.K.-based charity donation platform that's disrupting the cause-giving space by not charging any fees on donations, has announced a... read more Anthony Ha With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin RadPad is one of those startups that comes from a founder's real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and... read more Chris Velazco HTC Reportedly Pulls The Plug On A 12-Inch Windows RT Tablet, But A Smaller Tab Lives On HTC is currently sailing through a patch of rough seas, and it seems as though the company is starting to rethink its tablet strategy. According to a recent... 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 // May 30, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 30, 2013 Ryan Lawler Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Got Into The Electric Car Business Because No One Else Would Tesla founder Elon Musk said that he got into the electric car business after it became clear that no one else was going to build an electric car. In a keynote... read more Natasha Lomas Samsung Confirms 4.3" Dual-Core Galaxy S4 Mini To Widen Access To Its Flagship S4 Brand Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy S4 Mini, following a brief leak earlier this month. The new handset takes the name of its current flagship... read more Frederic Lardinois Microsoft Gives In To The Old Guard, Adds Start Button And Boot To Desktop To Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the... read more Darrell Etherington Dropbox Currently Experiencing Widespread Service Outage Dropbox is undergoing a pretty widespread service outage, according to our own tests and multiple reports from around the world on Twitter. It's been down for... read more Greg Kumparak Dots Goes Multiplayer Stupid friggin' Dots.... read more Greg Kumparak Drupal.org Hacked, User Details Exposed And Reset Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn't been a good year for web security.... read more Ryan Lawler Yves Behar's August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. A startup called... read more Ryan Lawler Tesla Will Triple Its Supercharger Coverage Area, Enabling Cross-Country Road Trips, CEO Elon Musk Says Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Adds A New iPod Touch With 16GB Of Storage And No Rear Camera For $229 Apple today dropped a mid-cycle refresh of the iPod touch, its iOS-based iPod, with 16GB of storage on board and without a rear camera, for $229. This slots in... read more Matt Burns Hello Moto X 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 // May 29, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 29, 2013 Ryan Lawler CEO Tim Cook Says Apple Has More Game-Changing Products Ahead Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company will continue to innovate, and has more game-changing products ahead. Today in a keynote conversation at the D11... read more Drew Olanoff Heading To Yahoo! And No! I Can't Do Anything About The Exclamation Mark! Today, I have to say goodbye to my current home, TechCrunch. I've not only gotten the opportunity to work with this amazing team as a writer and Community... read more Colleen Taylor Dear Andy Dunn What? You thought that publicly calling out prominent groups of people didn't open you up to some criticism yourself? You know what they say about people who... read more Darrell Etherington Microsoft's Surface Pro Gets A 256GB Storage Option When It Hits The Japanese Market In June Microsoft's Surface Pro, the tablet/laptop amalgam device designed to perfectly showcase Windows 8, is getting a 256 SSD internal storage option, the biggest... read more Darrell Etherington Meet Tim Cook's Apple: APIs Abound, Spending Money To Make Money, Long Bets On New Categories Apple CEO Tim Cook was on stage at D11, AllThingsD's most recent marquee annual tech conference, and he had a lot to talk about, given recent activity with... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Insight Venture Partners Raises A Whopping $2.57 Billion For Next Fund read more Catherine Shu Spotify Launches "Discover" Feature For Its Web App Spotify has launched Discover, a news feed that allows users to see recommendations, songs and playlists based on their favorite music. The feature, which... read more Darrell Etherington Don't Expect To See New iPhone Or iPad Hardware At WWDC, The Loop Advises, But New Macs Possible The Loop's Jim Dalrymple is probably the best-connected Apple blogger on the planet at the moment, so when he posts an entry called "WWDC Expectations," the... read more John Biggs JamStar Is A Cool Free App That Teaches You To Play The Guitar read more Natasha Lomas GoEuro's Multi-Mode Travel Platform Launches In Germany & The U.K. To Take The Strain Out Of Route Planning After closing a $4m round in March, led by Battery Ventures and Hasso Plattner Ventures, Berlin-based multi-mode travel search platform GoEuro has now launched... 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 // May 28, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // May 28, 2013 Alexia Tsotsis Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin's Consumerization Because why do anything other than try out hot technologies on Memorial Day, I just bought some Bitcoin. I might finally play Dots and maybe 3D-print an ear... read more Alex Williams What Would Square's Jack Dorsey Do? read more Frederic Lardinois With New Study And Marketing Campaign, Microsoft Puts Renewed Emphasis On Its Social Tools For The Enterprise Microsoft's SharePoint always featured a core set of social tools, but with the acquisition of Yammer, as well as the ongoing integration of Lync and Skype, the... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Drones Aren't For Delivering Tacos: UVS Avia Builds Quadcopters For Nuclear Sites, Search-And-Rescue read more Catherine Shu Alibaba Group Starts Work On Massive Logistics Network To Provide 24-Hour Deliveries Throughout China Alibaba Group officially launched (link via Google Translate) the China Smart Logistics Network (CSN) today, which former Alibaba CEO Jack Ma says will become... read more Chris Velazco Public Lab's Crowdfunded Infragram Cameras Let People See Plants In A Different Light There's no shortage of novel Kickstarter projects that aim to change how we think about the environment, but here's one that could literally change how we look... read more Catherine Shu BuzzFeed Partners With CNN, Will Invest Low "Eight-Digit Sum" In YouTube News Channel Social news site and meme aggregator Buzzfeed is partnering with CNN and YouTube to create a new online-video channel called "CNN BuzzFeed" that will be... read more John Biggs This DIY Super Laser Can Cut Through A Ping Pong Ball There are few things as satisfying - and dangerous - as burning through stuff with a laser. Drake Anthony AKA Sytropyro is a young man who enjoys making DIY... read more Darrell Etherington TestFairy Opens Its Android App Testing Platform To All, Making Even Bad Beta Testers Useful Beta testing mobile apps becomes only more challenging as the crop of devices and mobile OS versions continues to expand, and Israel-based TestFairy, a new... read more Darrell Etherington The Same Tech That Makes Your Bose Headphones So Quiet Could Give Net Speeds A Big Boost New research suggests that noise canceling tech isn't just for blocking out the screaming baby or chatty couple sitting next to you on that transatlantic flight... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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