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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