Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 31, 2013

Apple's New Product Strategy

Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond... read more

Pirate3D Buccaneer Hits $100K Goal In 10 Minutes

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Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward

During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists... read more

Housebites Runs Out Of Runway For Its Airbnb For Take-Out, Reduces Staff As It Prepares Fresh Pivot

Housebites, the London, UK-based startup that enables independent chefs to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a take-out, has shuttered in its current... read more

Apple Saw Over One-Third Of Mobile Ad Requests In Q1, Adfonic Says, But Samsung Surges In Engagement

Apple continues to rule the roost when it comes to mobile ad share, according to UK-based ad firm Adfonic, but Samsung is winning a small victory in terms of... read more

StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts

StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class at AOL's... read more

Fanatix Bolsters Its Seed With Another $1M As Its Mobile Social Network For Sports Fans Hits 1M Monthly Actives, Up 566% Since January

Fanatix, the U.K. startup that's made a mobile-first social network for sports fans to chew over their team's performance as and after they watch them play, has... read more

Fee-less Charity Donation Startup, Believe.in, Partners With Stripe To Offer Faster Payment Processing

Believe.in, a VC-backed U.K.-based charity donation platform that's disrupting the cause-giving space by not charging any fees on donations, has announced a... read more

With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin

RadPad is one of those startups that comes from a founder's real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and... read more

HTC Reportedly Pulls The Plug On A 12-Inch Windows RT Tablet, But A Smaller Tab Lives On

HTC is currently sailing through a patch of rough seas, and it seems as though the company is starting to rethink its tablet strategy. According to a recent... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 31, 2013

Apple's New Product Strategy

Apple appears to be on a kick of delivering product refreshes to punctuate its major release cycle, with changes to devices and tweaked versions that go beyond... read more

Pirate3D Buccaneer Hits $100K Goal In 10 Minutes

read more

Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward

During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists... read more

Housebites Runs Out Of Runway For Its Airbnb For Take-Out, Reduces Staff As It Prepares Fresh Pivot

Housebites, the London, UK-based startup that enables independent chefs to sell home-cooked meals as an alternative to a take-out, has shuttered in its current... read more

Apple Saw Over One-Third Of Mobile Ad Requests In Q1, Adfonic Says, But Samsung Surges In Engagement

Apple continues to rule the roost when it comes to mobile ad share, according to UK-based ad firm Adfonic, but Samsung is winning a small victory in terms of... read more

StartX, The Stanford-Affiliated Startup Accelerator, Kicks Off Spring 2013 Demo Day With 10 Company Debuts

StartX, the startup accelerator for companies founded by Stanford students, is just about to kick off Demo Day for its Summer 2013 startup class at AOL's... read more

Fanatix Bolsters Its Seed With Another $1M As Its Mobile Social Network For Sports Fans Hits 1M Monthly Actives, Up 566% Since January

Fanatix, the U.K. startup that's made a mobile-first social network for sports fans to chew over their team's performance as and after they watch them play, has... read more

Fee-less Charity Donation Startup, Believe.in, Partners With Stripe To Offer Faster Payment Processing

Believe.in, a VC-backed U.K.-based charity donation platform that's disrupting the cause-giving space by not charging any fees on donations, has announced a... read more

With $200K In New Funding, Photo-Centric Rental App RadPad Comes To Austin

RadPad is one of those startups that comes from a founder's real-world experience — specifically, Jonathan Eppers (a former product manager at eHarmony and... read more

HTC Reportedly Pulls The Plug On A 12-Inch Windows RT Tablet, But A Smaller Tab Lives On

HTC is currently sailing through a patch of rough seas, and it seems as though the company is starting to rethink its tablet strategy. According to a recent... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // May 30, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 30, 2013

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Got Into The Electric Car Business Because No One Else Would

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that he got into the electric car business after it became clear that no one else was going to build an electric car. In a keynote... read more

Samsung Confirms 4.3" Dual-Core Galaxy S4 Mini To Widen Access To Its Flagship S4 Brand

Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy S4 Mini, following a brief leak earlier this month. The new handset takes the name of its current flagship... read more

Microsoft Gives In To The Old Guard, Adds Start Button And Boot To Desktop To Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the... read more

Dropbox Currently Experiencing Widespread Service Outage

Dropbox is undergoing a pretty widespread service outage, according to our own tests and multiple reports from around the world on Twitter. It's been down for... read more

Dots Goes Multiplayer

Stupid friggin' Dots.... read more

Drupal.org Hacked, User Details Exposed And Reset

Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn't been a good year for web security.... read more

Yves Behar's August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App

The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. A startup called... read more

Tesla Will Triple Its Supercharger Coverage Area, Enabling Cross-Country Road Trips, CEO Elon Musk Says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover... read more

Apple Adds A New iPod Touch With 16GB Of Storage And No Rear Camera For $229

Apple today dropped a mid-cycle refresh of the iPod touch, its iOS-based iPod, with 16GB of storage on board and without a rear camera, for $229. This slots in... read more

Hello Moto X

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Top Stories of the Day // May 30, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // May 30, 2013

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Got Into The Electric Car Business Because No One Else Would

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that he got into the electric car business after it became clear that no one else was going to build an electric car. In a keynote... read more

Samsung Confirms 4.3" Dual-Core Galaxy S4 Mini To Widen Access To Its Flagship S4 Brand

Samsung has officially confirmed the Galaxy S4 Mini, following a brief leak earlier this month. The new handset takes the name of its current flagship... read more

Microsoft Gives In To The Old Guard, Adds Start Button And Boot To Desktop To Windows 8.1

Windows 8.1, which will be available for download in a preview version on June 26, will feature the good old Start button in desktop mode. Users who dislike the... read more

Dropbox Currently Experiencing Widespread Service Outage

Dropbox is undergoing a pretty widespread service outage, according to our own tests and multiple reports from around the world on Twitter. It's been down for... read more

Dots Goes Multiplayer

Stupid friggin' Dots.... read more

Drupal.org Hacked, User Details Exposed And Reset

Another day, another big site hacked. 2013 really just hasn't been a good year for web security.... read more

Yves Behar's August Smart Lock Lets Users Open Doors With A Mobile App

The smart home has grown in importance over the years, with new technologies being used to connect users with what used to be dumb objects. A startup called... read more

Tesla Will Triple Its Supercharger Coverage Area, Enabling Cross-Country Road Trips, CEO Elon Musk Says

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will be tripling its supercharger coverage throughout the country. By the end of this year, Musk expects that it will cover... read more

Apple Adds A New iPod Touch With 16GB Of Storage And No Rear Camera For $229

Apple today dropped a mid-cycle refresh of the iPod touch, its iOS-based iPod, with 16GB of storage on board and without a rear camera, for $229. This slots in... read more

Hello Moto X

read more

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