Top Stories of the Day // July 26, 2014

Saturday, July 26, 2014 Posted by bloggerdaddy
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Today's Top Stories // Jul 26, 2014

Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon

TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and "beat Amazon at its own game." It has... read more

How Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Stacks Up A Month Later

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A Most Dangerous Machine

Facebook's News Feed has decided that I like gruesome murders. Actually, senseless deaths and gruesome murders. I'm not exactly sure when the problem started,... read more

Unlocking Your Cell Phone Is Still Illegal, But Probably Not For Long

Unlocking a smart phone to run on a different carrier. It seems completely innocuous, right? Something you'd do with a bit of time on your weekend just to see... read more

The First Trillion-Dollar Startup

In 1957, eight entrepreneurs decided to do something that seemed crazy. They launched a new tech company called Fairchild Semiconductor in a small town south of... read more

This Site Lets You Check If A Hotel's WiFi Sucks Before It’s Too Late

There are lots of things that review sites should rank hotels on, but don't. Is it known for bed bugs? Is the "heated pool" only heated during summer when... read more

Google Wants To Improve Its Translations Through Crowdsourcing

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TOP VIDEOS

Hands-On With The Revamped iOS App For We Heart It, The Feel-Good Social Photo Site

 We Heart It, the Pinterest-meets-Tumblr social image sharing platform that’s attracted a large and... read more

TC Cribs: A Trip To BarkBox HQ, Where Dogs Rule

 We definitely dig dog-friendly companies here at TechCrunch Cribs, so when we were in New York City recently,... read more

How Monsieur Shook Up Disrupt SF With Its Bartending Robot

 And we’re back with episode two of our Road To Disrupt video series, which shows the good, the bad,... read more

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