Top Stories of the Day // July 12, 2013

Friday, July 12, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Jul 12, 2013

Maxthon Is A Cloud-Based Browser For Power Users

Maxthon may not have the name recognition of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, but the cloud browser has gained a global following of more than 100 million unique... read more

Following Amazon And Netflix, Rakuten Is Expanding Its Wuaki Video Service Across Europe; First Stop UK

E-commerce giant Rakuten, often called the Amazon of Japan, is taking another step in a bid to square up to is rival: today it is officially launching a beta of... read more

HomeDine, The Airbnb For Home-Cooked Meals, Has Launched An iPhone App

HomeDine is all about getting more people cooking -- and eating -- home-cooked meals, with a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects people who like throwing... read more

Coinbase Offers Instant Bitcoin Transfers For Verified Users

Coinbase, the Valley darling focused on making it easier to buy, sell, and store Bitcoin, has made it far easier to buy and sell BTC - if you give up just a... read more

Celebrate The Death Of Print With This 3D Printed Texture Book

A designer named Tom Burtonwood has designed a book that contains 3D-scanned textures he has grabbed from museums and architecture in his home city of Chicago.... read more

A New Place For Better Place, As Bankrupt $800M+ Backed Electric Car Startup Sold For $12M

Looks like we have a final chapter for Better Place, the electric car tech startup that raised $786 million plus $50 million in debt, only to then file for... read more

The Highlight Startups From FounderFuel's Summer 2013 Cohort Demo Day

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Snaplay Wants To Be The 'Shazam For Images', Uses Reverse Image Search To Find Related Music & Videos

Can't be bothered to type something you want to search for? Snaplay is a reverse image search app that lets you snap a photo of a piece of media to retrieve... read more

Star Wars Fans Take To San Francisco's Streets Thanks To Nerdist Industries' Course Of The Force

Geek-focused digital media company Nerdist Industries did something kind of amazing in the lead up to last year's Comic-Con International — it staged a relay... read more

New LinkedIn API Restrictions Force Job Change Email Notification Service To Shut Down

Job Change Notifier, a cool little utility that allowed LinkedIn users to track and be notified via email when one of their connections changed jobs, is... read more

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Most Unproductive Congress Ever Could Kill Immigration Reform

It's looking less likely that high-skilled immigration reform will pass soon, if at all. Comprehensive immigration reform is currently sliced up into several… read more

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