Top Stories of the Day // February 15, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Feb 15, 2014 Nir Eyal Why Fads Fade: The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird On February 8, 2014, an app called Flappy Bird held the coveted No. 1 spot in the Apple App Store. The app's 29-year-old creator, Dong Nguyen, reported... read more Greg Kumparak Instapainting Turns Your Photos Into Hand-Painted Oil Paintings On The Cheap Surprise! It's Valentine's Day, the stealthiest of all the holidays. If you're trying to get a gift today, you… might be a bit short on options. Will you... read more Alex Wilhelm HTC Confirms That Windows Phone 8.1 Exists, Shocking Precisely No One In a Reddit AMA session today, HTC employees confirmed that the company's 8X Windows Phone handset will receive future firmware updates. This indicates that the... read more Gregory Ferenstein How The World Butchered Benjamin Franklin’s Quote On Liberty Vs. Security read more Alex Wilhelm As Exchange Withdrawal Restrictions Ease, Bitcoin’s Price Snaps Northward read more Jon Evans VCs On Inequality, Unemployment, And Our Uncertain Future The Great Bifurcation is underway. The American economy is polarizing between the minority rich and the majority poor; technology is a major cause of this; and... read more Alexia Tsotsis Ronny Conway Closes His Over $51 Million Early Stage Fund Solo investor Ronny Conway has closed the early-stage fund he had left Andreessen Horowitz last year to raise. Back in September, Dan Primack had reported that... read more TOP VIDEOS Ask A VC: Comcast Ventures' Dave Zilberman On SaaS Enterprise Adoption And More In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, we hosted Comcast Ventures’ Dave Zilberman to talk about mobile... read more Twitter's Dick Costolo On What It Takes To Be A Good CEO 2013 was a very good year for Twitter, so it's only fitting that Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo took home the award... read more TC Cribs: Zoosk, Where A Tunnel Of Love Leads To Coders, Cupcakes, And Puppies It's just about Valentine's Day, which means love is in the air, even here among the workaholics in the tech industry.... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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