Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // December 11, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Dec 11, 2012

Yahoo! Introduces A "New Mail" Experience: More Intuitive, Fewer Distractions And Built For Speed

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Twitter Releases Its 2012 Year In Review, And It's An Immersive And Personal Experience

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Singly Launches "App Fabric" Platform For Developers To Speed Up Integrations With Dozens Of Services

Singly, a startup aimed at simplifying the integration of third-party services in both web and mobile applications, is today launching its platform into open... read more

Facebook Could Earn Up To $1B A Year From Gifts Now That It's Rolled Out To All U.S. Users

Now it's time to see if Facebook Gifts will be a nice supplement to the company's revenue, or a core chunk of it. Facebook could make between $127.5 million and... read more

Real-Time News Alert Service Owlin Raises $250K To Outpace Bloomberg, Reuters For 'Bottom Up' News

Real-time news alert service Owlin (a recent graduate of the Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Rockstart.Accelerator), has raised $250k in seed funding from NoRo... read more

Microsoft Surface Off To A Slow Start In Tablet Web Traffic Share, But Could Catch Nexus Family In Time

Microsoft's Surface is a bit slow out the starting gate according to tablet web traffic share numbers from mobile advertising network Chitika, which measures... read more

Microsoft Brings SkyDrive To Xbox 360 -- Now Windows 8/Phone 8 Users Get To See Their Stuff On The Big Screen

Microsoft has joined up another piece of its Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 puzzle by launching a SkyDrive app for the Xbox 360 -- allowing users of its cloud... read more

WebMD Announces Layoffs; 14% Of Staff, $45M In Total Spending Cuts Coming Off Of A $900K Quarterly Loss

WebMD, arguably still the go-to source for medical information on the Internet, today announced that it would be implementing strong expenditure control... read more

Adobe Brings Retina Display Support To Photoshop And Illustrator CS6 As A Free Update For All Users

Adobe has made good on its promise to deliver Retina Display support to two of its most-used graphics programs, Photoshop and Illustrator CS6. That means owners... read more

FileMaker Go For iPad And iPhone Tops 500K Downloads, Points To The Future Of Custom iOS Business Solutions

Apple subsidiary FileMaker is an unusual, often overlooked part of the Mac maker's empire, one that has been around almost as long as Apple Computer itself. The... read more

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // December 10, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Dec 10, 2012

Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing "Potentially Life Threatening" Misdirection

Police in Victoria have urged motorists to avoid the use of Apple Maps, warning that faulty directions on the much-criticized app has left motorists stranded in... read more

Samsung Unveils Its "Premium Suite Upgrade" For The Galaxy S III

Samsung has unveiled its "Premium Suite Upgrade" for the Galaxy S III, as promised in a teaser last Friday.... read more

Gmail Experiences A Widespread Outage, Many Users Affected

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Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Pro Developers In 10 Weeks, And It's Accepting Applications For 2013

Amidst all the argument about "brogrammer" culture and the presence of women in Silicon Valley, here's a company that's actively working to change things,... read more

Apple TV Likely To Get Bluetooth Support In Next Update: Gaming And Siri Could Follow

Apple has introduced a new feature for existing Apple TV second and third generation hardware in its latest beta software for those devices. Specifically, the... read more

New Arduino Esplora Provides A Ready-For-Gaming, Customizable, Open Source Video Game Controller

Arduino unveiled a new preassembled board today, one that includes a variety of sensors and controls already assembled, allowing aspiring game programmers to... read more

The $249 Bose SoundDock Series III Is Ready For Your iPhone 5

My fellow iPhone 5 owners, our long national nightmare is over. Bose finally has a speaker dock with a Lightning connector. Called the SoundDock Series III,... read more

Google Play Gets Carrier Billing Thanks To New Arrangement With Facebook Billing Partner Bango

Mobile carrier billing company Bango continues its hot streak of signing up big name partners today, thanks to a new arrangement with Google to bring carrier... read more

RobotAppStore Raises $250K From Grishin Robotics To Take The App Distribution Model To The World Of Robots

The smartphone market, some argue, really took off after Apple introduced the first app store to make its iPhones more useful. Now a new startup hopes that the... read more

Quantum Wave To Put $100M Into Quantum Tech Behind The Next Computing Wave

Amid the startups, panels and speeches at TechCrunch Moscow today has been some emerging news about the Russian scene. For one, there is the move from Russia's... read more

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // December 7, 2012

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Google Kills Free Google Apps For Business, Now Only Offering Premium Paid Version To Companies Of All Sizes

Google has announced a change to Google Apps for Business -- ending the free version of the product, offering only its Premium version which costs $50 per user,... read more

Developers Will Love This: Facebook Now Auto-Generates Documentation From Source Code

Devs hate outdated documentation. If a platform you build on changes and doesn't tell you, it can cause days of frustration and wasted work. So now, when... read more

Apple Patent A Reminder That It's Working On Google Glass-Style Wearable Tech, Too

An Apple patent published yesterday by the USPTO and unearthed by Patently Apple is a reminder that Apple was actually working on wearable tech in the form of... read more

Uber For Maids: GetMaid Launches Its On-Demand, Premium Maid Service In New York

Like Airbnb, Uber has spawned a subset of startups that are looking to capitalize on the success of its premium, mobile, on-demand model and bring a little... read more

Apple Vs. Samsung: Judge Koh Makes Plea For "Global Peace" As Pair Muster Latest Round Of Legal Arguments

In the latest episode of the Apple vs. Samsung legal drama that's been playing out in the U.S. district court of Northern California, the pair met again at an... read more

Startup NYC: Citi Lays Off 11K Finance Employees, Thinkful Tries To Get Them Hired In Tech

Citigroup took a big hit yesterday, as its new CEO Michael Corbat announced the company's intention to lay off 11,000 employees and "pull back in emerging... read more

WAYN Hits 21M Users, Signs Partnership To Reach India Today's 100M User Base

It's been a while since we checked in with WAYN, (Where Are You Now), but the super early player in travel/lifestyle social media has quietly clocked up over 21... read more

Samsung's New Premium Suite Update Brings Split-Screen Multitasking To The Galaxy S III

Easily one of the best features Samsung has been implementing on its newer Galaxy Note devices is the ability to run two apps in separate windows at the same... read more

Final Fantasy IV Will Come To iOS Devices Dec. 20, Giving Us Another Chance To Pay For It Again

I have mixed feelings about Square Enix gradually re-releasing all of its titles for iPhone and iPad devices; on the one hand, these are generally great titles... read more

Gift Guide: Lenovo Yoga 13

When Lenovo first announced the Yoga in October nobody knew what to think. A laptop that folks fold over to turn into a big tablet? With Windows 8? Meh.... read more

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // December 6, 2012

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They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead

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Deep Dive With Google's Snapseed Team: Android App Launches, iOS Is Free And Instagram Should Watch Out

One of the things that we hear the most from pundits when Google acquires a company, much like it did Nik Software, makers of the gorgeous and dead-simple to... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Transparency, $100M U.S. Mac Manufacturing Investment, Forstall, Maps And More

In one of the most candid, and certainly most extensive interviews with Apple CEO Tim Cook on record, Bloomberg Businessweek today got the executive to open up... read more

Apple Drops 6.4% Due To Volatility And Uncertainty: The iPad Mini Is Out, Now What?

Today, Apple shares fell 6.43 percent to 538.79, which represents a $34.8 billion market cap write-off. Analysts have been looking for reasons for the drop all... read more

The Onion: Apple To Fix Map Software By Rearranging Earth's Geography

We heart you, The Onion. America's premier fake news channel has discovered Apple's plans to fix its notoriously bad maps software by rearranging the Earth's... read more

Google+ Introduces "Communities" To Replace Old School Groups, Forums And Message Boards

Whether you use Google+ knowingly or not, meaning whether or not you actually engage on the destination site, you have to realize that the project has been a... read more

New Version Of The Apple-HTC Agreement Reveals More About The Deal

Samsung has filed a redacted version of the Apple-HTC settlement and license agreement as part of the injunction court hearing scheduled to take place in... read more

Apple Patents A Smart To-Do List That Uses Contextual Information From Your iPhone To Fill The Gaps

An Apple patent filing published by the USPTO on Thursday describes a task manager that goes well beyond the standard Reminders app that is now built in to iOS... read more

Google Updates Maps For 10 Countries and Regions In Europe, Ground Truth Now At Work In 40 Countries

When we sat down with the Google Maps team a few months ago, we got an inside look at how Google makes its Maps product the best, most authoritative and... read more

Google+ Shares Numbers: More Than 500M Upgraded, 235M Active Across Google, 135M In The Stream

Today, Google was extremely busy in launching Snapseed's photo editor for Android, making it free for iOS, as well as showcasing its new Communities product for... read more

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