Top Stories of the Day // September 26, 2013

Thursday, September 26, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Sep 26, 2013

EBay's PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash

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

Google Hangouts And Google Talk Bug Resulting In Messages Going Out To The Wrong Recipients

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

Charge It With Fire! FlameStower Turns Your Campfire Into A USB Phone-Charger

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

Amazon Faces High-Stakes Challenge In Scaling Mayday On-Demand Support

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

Nest Labs To Open Up Its Learning Thermostat To Developers

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

Elop Conspiracy? Not So Much

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

Siri Ex-Product Lead Who Quietly Sold His Startup's Assets To Apple Raises $1M For Unsilo, A Semantic Search Engine

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

TOP VIDEOS

JumpCam, Backed With $2.7M, Debuts Its Snappy Mobile App For Making Collaborative Videos

If you've been to a nice wedding, anniversary, or milestone birthday party lately, you've probably seen this kind... read more

Amazon Introduces Mayday, A Unique And Amazingly Useful Live Tech Support System For Kindle

Live support has always been a dream for major retailers. While chat solutions already exist, today Amazon announced... read more

Keen On… Uproot Wine: How One New York VC Is Tipsy On Californian Sauvignon Blanc

One the one hand, Jay Levy , as a partner in Zelkovo Ventures, is a conventional New York City tech VC with investments... read more

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