Top Stories of the Day // June 30, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jun 30, 2013 Ankur Jain Startups Compete To Win The Mobile App CRM Battle Editor's note: Ankur Jain is a venture investor at Nexus Venture Partners. Nexus invests in early and early growth stage companies across sectors in India and... read more Gregory Ferenstein As IPO Nears, Twitter CEO Says "We Think Of Revenue Like Oxygen" As Twitter nears its IPO, CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. "We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but not the first thing... read more Rip Empson Benchmark's Eisenberg And Face.com's Shochat Raise $120M+ For Aleph, An Early-Stage Fund For Israeli Startups Two veteran investors who have been integral in the development of a new generation of Israeli startups are on a mission to reverse a trend in a country that... read more Chris Velazco Can Google Really Crack The Game Console Market? Look, we've all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn't completely dead, so part of that 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 // June 29, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jun 29, 2013 Stephanie Singer Launching A Startup? Make A Clean Legal Break From Your Employer First Editor's note: Stephanie Singer practices law at WilmerHale, where she advises emerging companies in the technology and life sciences industries on... read more Chris Velazco After Three Months Of Work, Digg Reader Officially Opens To The Public Despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth Google Reader is finally set to go dark next week, and more than a few companies (including TechCrunch owner AOL) are... read more Jon Evans Tomorrow's Surveillance: Everyone, Everywhere, All The Time Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA panopticon, the civil libertarians are worried that their Internet... read more Kevin Rose Foundation: Evan Williams on Hatching Big Ideas In today's episode of my Foundation series, serial entrepreneur Evan Williams talks candidly about his experiences building Blogger, Twitter, and his latest... read more Victoria Ho Pirate3D Printer Exceeds Kickstarter Goal By 14X read more Eliza Brooke If You Must Wear Your Tech, Try Not To Look Like An Idiot Like Dance Moms or protein-only diets, wearable tech is one of those things that simultaneously incites excitement, bandwagonning, distrust and disgust. Gut... 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 // June 28, 2013

	TechCrunch Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers. Limited extra early bird tickets are available until July 15: Register Now! Today's Top Stories // Jun 28, 2013 Darrell Etherington Android 4.3 Available To Test For Adventurous Galaxy S4 Owners Google's worst-kept secret is the upcoming Android 4.3 update for devices powered by its mobile OS (though a lot more secrets have come to light recently), and... read more Matt Burns Drop Everything And Watch Aol's Incredible Attempts At Finding A News Anchor Clear your calendar today. History is being made. And you can watch live. Aol, TC's all-knowing, ever-evolving parent, is holding auditions for a news anchor... read more Natasha Lomas WSJ: Google To Push Android Further By Making A Games Console, Smart Watch, Media-Streamer & Low Cost Smartphones Itself Google is working on building multiple new devices to keep pushing its globally dominant Android OS beyond smartphones and tablets. It's building its own games... read more Gregory Ferenstein How Hackers Beat The NSA In The '90s And How They Can Do It Again While the world parses the ramifications of the National Security Agency's massive snooping operation, it's important to remember an earlier government attempt... read more Alexia Tsotsis Propeller Gets $1.25M From A16z, ffAngel, Everyone Good Basically The app that allows you to create your own native apps, Propeller, has raised $1.25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, ffAngel, Menlo Ventures, Foundation... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Marc Andreessen: Beijing Should Be Another Silicon Valley, But.... read more Chris Velazco BlackBerry Misses In Q1 2014: EPS Of -$0.13 On Revenue Of $3.1B, 6.8 Million Phones Shipped BlackBerry has just released its fiscal Q1 2014 earnings today (yes, their fiscal calendar is a little kooky), and the company still can't seem to find its... read more Josh Constine Facebook Launches Related Hashtags And #Mobile Site Support Facebook's on a quest to get you involved in real-time global conversations. Today it takes the next step towards challenging Twitter by adding hashtag support... read more Alex Williams Office 365 Is Now A Programmable Service For Rapid App Delivery Microsoft is offering new capabilities for building business apps with Office 365 and Windows Azure -- part of a larger effort to offer services that can... read more Natasha Lomas Survey: Quarter Of US Consumers Has Heard Of Bitcoin -- And Majority Of Them Trust It A survey of more than 22,000 U.S. consumers aimed at probing Bitcoin awareness and levels of trust has found around a quarter of consumers have heard of the... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CrunchGov Daily Roundup Gregory Ferenstein How Hackers Beat The NSA In The ’90s And How They Can Do It Again While the world parses the ramifications of the National Security Agency's massive snooping operation, it's important to remember an earlier government attempt… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Let's try that again: Top Stories of the Day // June 27, 2013

	This morning's CrunchDaily was missing the top stories of the day due to a technical issue so we're resending with our apologies! Today we're introducing a new feature to CrunchDaily: CrunchGov. We're now bringing you not only top TechCrunch stories of the day but also the latest from CrunchGov Essential, a roundup of news about technology's influence on today's biggest issues. Please note: if you'd like to receive CrunchDaily without this feature go here to update your preferences. Today's Top Stories // Jun 27, 2013 Josh Constine 21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel's 20-Under-20 fellows, just raised $3.8 million for... read more John Biggs The DEA Seized Bitcoins In A Silk Road Drug Raid In the underground world of the deep web there are few places as nefarious as Silk Road. The site, hidden on the Tor network has long been one of the primary... read more Josh Constine Leaked Details Of Facebook's New Chat Rooms Feature Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the... read more Matt Burns Need A Meme? Why Not Use Imgur's New Generator Imgur, the image host for Reddit and most of the internet, just launched its own meme creation tool. And it's about the best meme generator available.... read more Mike Butcher With $38M To Play With, NumberFour Could Become A Global Business Platform The emergence of NumberFour in Berlin - which has today announced a $38m Series A round - throws up a few interesting points worth briefly dwelling on. It may... read more Catherine Shu Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the... read more Mike Butcher Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest In Two Years NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38... read more Leena Rao With New Initiative 'Galactic,' PayPal Wants To Own Payments And Commerce In Space In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space. read more Billy Gallagher Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors.... read more Sarah Perez Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein CrunchGov Essential: How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet The U.S. has always included a sizable population of gay citizens. Without a way to coordinate their latent collective powers, discrimination and isolation… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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