Top Stories of the Day // October 8, 2013

	Disrupt Europe lands in Berlin in less than 3 weeks with an outstanding agenda and speaker lineup. Register today! Today's Top Stories // Oct 8, 2013 Ingrid Lunden Nest Protect Is A $129 Smoke And Carbon Monoxide Detector That Takes Nest Deeper Into The Connected Home Nest Labs, the home hardware maker co-founded by two ex-Apple luminaries, is today unveiling its second product, Nest Protect, a $129 smart device that hopes to... read more Darrell Etherington Google Reveals HP Chromebook 11, A $279 Chrome OS Notebook That Charges Via Micro-USB Google unveiled a new addition to its growing stable of Chromebooks today, the HP Chromebook 11. The $279 device is on sale now, and offers a white plastic case... read more Darrell Etherington HTC One Max Will Have Fingerprint Sensor And Be Introduced Next Week, WSJ Reports HTC's next big smartphone will offer up a fingerprint sensor like the iPhone 5s, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting, and will be unveiled on October 15.... read more Darrell Etherington Hangouts 1.3 Will Reportedly Add SMS, Giving Android Its Own iMessage Equivalent Google is said to be prepping an update to its Hangouts instant messaging/video chat Android app that would allow it to integrate with SMS, making it possible... read more Matthew Panzarino Yahoo Mail Gets Cross-Platform Themes, 1TB of Storage, 'Mail Plus' Features For All And Better 'Conversations' read more Alex Williams Amazon Web Services Wins Again In Battle To Build The CIA And NSA Cloud Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published... read more Natasha Lomas Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Racks Up 1.75M Global Sales, 1M Of Which Were Made In U.K. The Raspberry Pi microcomputer, which costs as little as $25/$35 and has helped fledge many a DIY hardware project, has racked up worldwide sales of 1.75... read more TOP VIDEOS What Do You Love About Writing Code? We Ask, Software Engineers Answer The annual Grace Hopper event for women in computing is billed not as a conference, but as a "celebration." So... read more BranchOut Launches Talk.co To Expand From Networking Into A WhatsApp For The Workplace BranchOut's professional network cratered when Facebook muted its virality. Today the $49 million-funded startup... read more Airbnb's Brian Chesky And Sequoia's Alfred Lin On The Importance Of Culture And Core Values To A Business Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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