Top Stories of the Day // March 1, 2013

Friday, March 1, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Mar 1, 2013

Mike Butcher

Payments Startups Stripe Launches Limited Beta For UK Payments, With Euros On The Way

Stripe, the payments startup, has today opened a closed Beta of its platform in the UK. For now it will be limited to an undisclosed number of partners, but... read more

Frederic Lardinois

Google Launches Zopfli To Compress Data More Densely And Make Web Pages Load Faster

Google just launched Zopfli, a new open source compression algorithm that can compress web content about three to eight percent more densely (PDF) than the... read more

Catherine Shu

Meet Cubie, The 500 Startups-Backed Messaging App With 5.5M Users & A Sense of Humor

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Darrell Etherington

Sony Xperia C670X Specs Leak, Suggesting A New Android Flagship To Take On The HTC One

We didn't see a new phone from Sony at MWC this year, though it did take the opportunity to show off the Xperia Z it demoed early this year at CES, but a new... read more

John Biggs

Big Dog Can Now Throw Cinder Blocks, Thereby Making It The Scariest Robot Ever

While I'm sure there's some scientific reason for demonstrating how the quadrupedal Big Dog can pick up and throw cinder blocks across a workshop ("Ahem, urm,... read more

John Biggs

Happy Birthday, Raspberry Pi! A Chat With Creators Eben And Liz Upton, Pi-Friend Limor Fried

The Raspberry Pi project is one year old today, having launched on February 29, 2012 (they're going to have a rager of a party in 2016.) I sat down with the... read more

Gregory Ferenstein

FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban

Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to... read more

Jordan Crook

Watch SpaceX Launch Its Second Dragon Supply Mission To The ISS

In what has ended up being a weird couple weeks for Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX founder should have a better day today after the launch of the Dragon... read more

Matt Burns

Layoffs Hit Logitech As The Company Refocuses On Mobile Accessories

Logitech just took to the wires to announce an "organizational alignment" that will closely focus on new "strategic priorities". This "alignment to the... read more

Sarah Perez

Arro For iPhone Tells You What To Buy While In The Store...And What To Avoid

Arro, a new mobile shopping companion app for iPhone, is publicly launching this week with a different idea about how to help shoppers in store aisles make a... read more
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