Top Stories of the Day // July 19, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in September and Early Bird tickets are available until August 19. Register today and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Jul 19, 2013 Ingrid Lunden With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google After breaking up with Google and forging its own way forward with its mapping service on iOS, Apple is now taking another step on that path: today it emerged... read more Ryan Lawler URGENT FOR ALEXIA AND ELDON ... This is the worst email our tips line received today. I look forward to having a drink with this dude. read more Stephanie Yang Never Forget A Face With NumberSnap read more Victoria Ho Freemium Is Irresistable, Even For Successful Game Companies read more Mike Butcher Urbanara Becomes First To Try An 'IPO' On Bergfuerst's Crowd Funding Platform Founded in 2010, Urbanara is an upscale 'home wares' site across Europe, but manly Germany. It has VC backing, 25,000 customers and will make about €5million... read more Mike Butcher Lernstift Pen, Which Corrects You As You Write, Picks Up Speed On Kickstarter Lernstift is a pen which vibrates when you spell the word incorrectly. However, it could also be capable of spawning its own App ecosystem. After launching on... read more Ingrid Lunden U.S. Music Sales Down As Streaming Up 24% To 51B Tracks In 6 Months; Harlem Shake Bumps Its Way To The Top As questions continue to swirl around just how well artists get paid through streaming music services like Spotify -- and what they can do to improve that --... read more Billy Gallagher Freedom Of Information Act Machine Fights Government Secrecy By Automating Transparency Requests The Freedom of Information Act Machine, an open online platform that automates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, launched on Kickstarter two days ago... read more Jordan Crook Evernote Makes Big Push To Sync Up Apps With iOS, Android, Windows App Updates read more Catherine Shu Australia E-Commerce Giant The Catch Group Launches Incubator SketchBook Ventures To Share Its Resources With Startups Australia's top online shopping group The Catch Group, which boasts annual revenue of A$350 million ($321 million) and a database of 3.5 million customers,... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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