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 | Leena Rao Ebay's PayPal has acquired Chicago-based payments gateway Braintree, in an all-cash deal worth $800 million. We had originally reported that Braintree was on... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington A number of sources, including tipsters reporting directly to TechCrunch, as well as Google support forum posters and individuals on Twitter are reporting that... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas Charge your gadgets with fire! FlameStower, a startup that came out of Stanford's StartX Summer 2013 class, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to... read more | |  | Josh Constine What happens when it's easier to call tech support than to Google your problem? Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much... read more | |  | Matt Burns The Nest Learning Thermostat is about to get a little smarter (and perhaps the forthcoming Protect). Speaking at CEDIA Expo 2013, Tony Fadell, the company's... read more | |  | Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm If you read the news yesterday, you might have run into a few articles discussing the exit of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, the terms of his exit, the cost of... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden Apple's acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A... read more | |  | If you've been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you've probably seen this kind... read more | |  | Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced... read more | |  | One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
