Top Stories of the Day // August 31, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 9 days with Dick Costolo, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg and many more. Check out the agenda here and get tickets today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 31, 2013 Natasha Lomas Google Confirms It Has Acquired Android Smartwatch Maker WIMM Labs Google has confirmed it acquired WIMM Labs last year, a company that previously made an Android-powered smartwatch before shuttering operations in 2012. At the... read more alexjameswilhelm The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story It started with an idea: How can we get our drinks more quickly at the bar? Dreamed up at 2 a.m. in Coloft, a Los Angeles coworking space, future founder Mike... read more Ryan Lawler Former Waywire CEO Nate Richardson Joins AOL As President Of AOL Live A few weeks ago we reported that Nate Richardson, the CEO and co-founder of Waywire, would be leaving the company as it makes a strategic shift from content... 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 // August 30, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 10 days with Dick Costolo, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg and many more. Check out the agenda here and get tickets today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 30, 2013 Billy Gallagher Hands On With The Seven Best Fantasy Football Sites And Apps With the NFL season just a week away, fans are poring over stats, trash talking their friends, and gearing up for the real season: fantasy football. Here are... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iPhone Trade-In Program Going Live Across The U.S. Today Apple will be expanding its iPhone trade-in program nationwide starting today, according to a report from CNBC's Jon Fortt which we've confirmed with our... read more Darrell Etherington Kickstarter Reportedly Owns Indiegogo With Around 6X More Total Dollars Raised, Average Success Rate Much Higher Indiegogo seems to always play second fiddle to Kickstarter, despite the fact that it was on the crowdfund scene first, and now someone's done the math to... read more Darrell Etherington Espruino Seeks Kickstarter Funding To Help Jump Start Its "JavaScript For Things" Effort Arduino is great, but Arduino is also pretty hard to wrap your head around, especially for newbies. The Espruino is "world's first JavaScript microcontroller... read more Natasha Lomas Doctape Launches Standalone File Viewer App For iOS With Support For 80+ File Types German cloud storage and file management startup doctape has launched a new standalone iOS app aimed at making it easier for iPhone and iPad users to view file... read more Ingrid Lunden Nokia Kicks Its Auto Ambitions Into High Gear With Connected Driving, A Cross-Platform Suite Of In-Car Navigation Services and Smartphone Apps While Nokia continues to work on clawing back some of the once-market-leading smartphone business it has lost in the last few years to Apple and Android handset... read more Alex Williams Salesforce Beats Estimates With $957M In Revenues, Earnings 9 Cents Per Share Salesforce.com beat estimated earnings, posting $957 million in revenues, a 31 percent increase compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings were 9 cents per... read more Eliza Brooke From The Experts To You, Six Fantasy Football Tools For Total Domination Yes. Fantasy football season is upon us. Amid a sea of apps and sites promising to get you a little closer to perfection, I turned to some of 2012's most... read more Catherine Shu Cascade Is An Enterprise Management Platform That Focuses On Boosting Employee Morale Cloud-based enterprise management software Cascade wants to set itself apart by creating happier and more motivated companies. Its two founders, a former banker... read more Stephanie Yang Travel Marketplace Demeure Raises $4M To Take On Airbnb With A Subscription Service For High-End Travelers 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 // August 29, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in 11 days with Dick Costolo, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg and many more. Check out the agenda here and get tickets today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 29, 2013 Catherine Shu Xiaomi, What Americans Need To Know Xiaomi's smartphones are currently sold only in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but its hire of Hugo Barra as Vice President of Xiaomi Global is a clear signal... read more Alexia Tsotsis Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle We've confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for "Apple of China" Xiaomi.... read more Darrell Etherington Skype Building 3D Video Calls That None Of Us Will Likely Use Skype is working on a technology that will no doubt be impressive when used once and then promptly ignored for the rest of time – 3D video calls. The project... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Working On Intelligent Brightness Control And Automated FaceTime Camera Selection Ideally, your smart device of the future anticipates your needs and adjusts itself to suit them without requiring input on your behalf. Two newly published... read more Steve O'Hear Ex-Skypers Aim To Bridge The Gap Between Email And Messaging With Launch Of Fleep When you get pitched a new messaging startup from an Estonian team comprising a number of ex-Skype engineers, you kind of have to take notice. Launching... read more Ingrid Lunden Yahoo Sharpens Its Flickr iOS App With Enhanced Filters, More Camera Tools; Makes Pro Tools Free Yahoo has just released a significant new update for its Flickr photo app for iOS, a further sign of how it wants to be not just where you go to store and view... read more Matthew Panzarino Mailbox Adds Cloud Search For Gmail And Opens Links In Chrome read more Darrell Etherington Global Founders Capital Reveals First Three Investments, Including Lingoda, GirlMeetsDress And Videdressing read more Billy Gallagher Test Driving The Evelo Aries, An Electric Bicycle For Commuters From A Bootstrapped Startup When co-founder Boris Mordkovich and his team at Evelo were ready to launch their electric bicycle company in April 2012, they took an unusual approach: They... read more John Biggs The GMax Large-Format 3D Printer Is Far, Far Bigger Than A Breadbox Given that the average breadbox is 12 inches wide by 6 inches high and deep, we can safely say that the GMax 3D printer, a Kickstarted large format printer can... 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 // August 28, 2013

	Startups: today is the last day to sign up for Startup Alley and demo at Disrupt SF. Learn more here and sign up today! Today's Top Stories // Aug 28, 2013 Greg Kumparak StackOverflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Builds A $150 Mechanical Keyboard If anyone knows far too much about their keyboard, it's a programmer.... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Acquires Swedish Firm AlgoTrim, A Company That Does Mobile Media And Data Compression Apple has acquired AlgoTrim, a Swedish startup that builds codecs and designs solutions that maximize performance of data, mobile imaging, video and computer... read more Billy Gallagher Twerk, Selfie, Bitcoin, Others Added To Oxford Dictionary As Silicon Valley, Middle Schoolers Push English Language Forward The Oxford Dictionaries Online is adding a slew of words, from bitcoin to twerk.... read more John Biggs Researchers Build The First Brain-To-Brain Control Interface Researchers at the University of Washington, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco, have created a remote, non-invasive brain-to-brain interface that allowed Rao to move... read more Matthew Panzarino Google Dumps Video Responses From YouTube Due To Dismal .0004% Click-Through Rate read more Darrell Etherington Urbita, The Pinterest For Cities, Blows Past 10M Unique Visitors In August With Mobile Site Launch FounderFuel Fall 2012 cohort grad Urbita, a startup based in LA and Buenos Aires, has managed to quietly amass a huge consumer following, having topped 8... read more Ingrid Lunden Parallels Launches Access For iPad, A Virtualization App That Gets Windows, Mac Apps To Work Like Native iOS Apps Timed to coincide with VMware's conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own... read more Darrell Etherington Shopify Launches Point-Of-Sale System To Unify Online And Brick-And-Mortar Retail Ottawa-based Shopify, the online storefront provider that helps around 65,000 retailers reach their customers on the web, including Tesla, Crossfit and others,... read more Darrell Etherington HTC Reportedly Building New Mobile OS Specifically For China Market, In Partnership With Chinese Government HTC's Hail Mary play might not take the form of another new smartphone: The Taiwanese company is reportedly working with Chinese government officials to build a... read more Colleen Taylor Belly Gets $12.1 Million From NEA And Others In A Bid To Take Its Loyalty App To The Next Level It turns out that amidst all the changes in the customer rewards and loyalty app landscape, the Chicago-based loyalty startup Belly is still kicking, and... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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