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| The 2012 Crunchies Awards are back in their 6th edition! The awards will be co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. Nominate your favorite companies, people, and products until December 6th, 2012.
When: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Where? Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA 94102
Buy Tickets here: http://crunchies2012.eventbrite.com
Nominate: http://crunchies2012.techcrunch.com/nominate/
Rules: http://techcrunch.com/events/crunchies-2012/rules/ |  | Alexia Tsotsis The signal du jour? This $195k Lamborghini for sale parked outside the Zynga offices (the Zynga dog eerily reflected in its window), uploaded to Instagram by... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington The iPad mini officially went on sale today, and the response at physical retail stores has been mixed. Some areas are seeing decent-sized lines, according to... read more | |  | Chris Velazco It seems like ages since Google and HTC first kicked off the Nexus experiment (it was 2010, but who's counting?). Now here we are, over two years later, and... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas Turns out there are an awful lot of phablet fans out there. More than three million, in fact, have lined up to cram Samsung's latest smartphone-cum-tablet, the... read more | |  | Jordan Crook The folks over at Android Authority have put together a cute little drop test for the iPad Mini and the Nexus 7, and you may be surprised at which tablet walks... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas Apple has pulled down a legal statement posted on its website after it lost an appeal in a U.K. court against a ruling that Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablets do... read more | |  | Darrell Etherington First it built the Surface, and now Microsoft is said to be working on another new hardware product, this time a smartphone. That's according to a new report... read more | |  | Romain Dillet Small businesses may have been even more affected than big companies by Hurricane Sandy, as they don't have the same resources. When Squarespace sent an email... read more | |  | Romain Dillet Google France could be ordered to pay $1.3 billion to France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des finances) due to tax noncompliance in 2011. The... read more | |  | Drew Olanoff This week, Google announced a new lineup of devices that would be running its Android OS, Jelly Bean version 4.2. Those new devices are a phone and a new... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
