Top Stories of the Day // August 9, 2013

Friday, August 9, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Aug 9, 2013

Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying

"We knew USG would come after us". That's why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It... read more

Microsoft's Lightweight Windows Phone App Builder Saw 30,000 Projects Started In First 48 Hours

Today on the Windows Developer Show, on which I was a guest, Microsoft's Bryan Tomlinson announced that the new Windows Phone App Studio had seen usage... read more

Armstrong Confirms "Hundreds" Of Layoffs At Patch, 400 Sites Shuttered Or Partnered Off, And A New CEO

We reported yesterday that AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hundreds of employees today, and now we have confirmation from a well-placed Patcher privy... read more

Google May Have Tapped Motorola For A New Nexus Phone And Asus For An Updated Nexus 10

Google ands its partners have been awfully busy with hardware launches these past few weeks -- there was the new Nexus 7, the curious Chromecast, and the Moto X... read more

Beddit: A Proper Sleep Tracker That Uses An Ultra-Thin Film Sensor In Your Bed

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BlackBerry Reportedly Considering Going Private, Following Dell In A Bid To Refocus With Less Scrutiny

Canada's smartphone industry pioneer BlackBerry is giving a lot more thought to taking the company private, according to a new report from Reuters. The strategy... read more

Fail Week: When Mark Suster Believed His Own Startup's Hype, And Everything Came Crashing Down

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Trace Is An Action Sports Motion Tracker Plus App For Quantified-Self Surfers, Skaters, Skiers

Quantified selfers who are also surfers, skateboarders (or skiers/snowboarders) won't be feeling so left out of the tracking trend if this Kickstarter campaign... read more

Skimlinks Acquires InvisibleHand Product And Team, Forward Gains Stake

Skimlinks, a platform which allows publishers full control over affiliate links and content monetization, has acquired InvisibleHand for an undisclosed sum. The... read more

Tribesports Kickstarts New Business Model By Raising £30K In 39.5 Hours For Its Community-Powered Sportswear

Earlier this week, Tribesports rebooted its business model with the headline-grabbing ambition to challenge the $250 billion global sportswear industry with... read more

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