Top Stories of the Day // April 2, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 2, 2013

Facebook In Talks To Buy Bang With Friends

Facebook is in the process of acquiring startup Bang With Friends, according to multiple sources, in order to make a foray into the online dating space.... read more

Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers, A $25 USB Stick With Windows 8 Pro And Parallels For Mac

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Why Facebook Home Is Potentially Brilliant

Let's say we build a phone, theoretically. We're not! But if we did, we could get maybe 10 million people to use it. 20 million. That doesn't move the needle... read more

Funny Or Die's Steve Jobs Movie Trailer Looks To Strike A Perfect Balance Of All Hype, No Substance

Steve Jobs was a rare CEO in that he inspired myths and legends not just among employees, but also among the general public. An executive whose name is... read more

HTC One Pre-Sales Start At AT&T April 4 For $199.99, Smartphone Ships April 19

HTC's great aluminum hope, the HTC One, will be available on AT&T beginning April 19, with pre-orders starting April 4. The smartphone will cost $199.99... read more

Google Adds Twilio For The First Voice And Messaging APIs Available Through The Google Cloud Platform And App Engine

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Nearly Two Years Later, Nebula Launches A Mainframe Style "Cloud Computer" Built On OpenStack

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Rosetta Stone Buys Up Online Language Learning Community Livemocha For $8.5M In Cash

Rosetta Stone has just acquired Seattle-based online language-learning community Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash. Livemocha has one of the largest online... read more

TechCrunch Is Breaking Into Real-Money Gaming

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Midokura Scores $17.3M Series A To Ramp Up Its Network Virtualization Offering On A Global Scale

Japan's Midokura, a startup with offices in SF, Tokyo, Lausanne and Barcelona, today announced a $17.3 million Series A funding round, led by Innovation Network... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // April 1, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 1, 2013

Google Introduces "Gmail Blue" -- It's Completely Blue, Because Brown Was a "Disaster"

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April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up

Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that's right, we've reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history... read more

What Does A Ghost Smell Like? Google Nose.

Google is shutting down YouTube? Good riddance! There hasn't been a video worth watching since Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract anyway.... read more

Twitter Announces "Twttr" -- Will Start Charging $5 A Month If You Want To Tweet Using Vowels

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Apple's iWatch Is Actually Just A Wrist Band That Attaches To Your iPhone, iPad

The much-rumored Apple iWatch isn't as exciting as you might have thought.... read more

Singaporean Sushi Bar Acquires Tech Firm, Turns Founders Into Sushi Chefs

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Reinventing Job Classifieds Shows How Much Room There Remains For Fresh Ideas

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EBay Beats Out Amazon To Lead $50M Round In India's E-Commerce Giant Snapdeal To Build Up Its BRIC Business

Online e-commerce giant eBay last week said that it expects to have 12% of its sales coming from BRIC countries by 2015 in a global e-commerce market that will... read more

Tesla Kills The Entry-Level, 40 kWh Model S Citing Poor Demand

The Model S just got a little more expensive. Tesla just announced that the company will no longer offer the least expensive Model S electric sedan. Per a Tesla... read more

Nuance Announces Voice Ads, So You Can Talk To Mobile Advertising

Nuance, a company known for its voice technology, is getting into the advertising business.... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // April 1, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Apr 1, 2013

Google Introduces "Gmail Blue" -- It's Completely Blue, Because Brown Was a "Disaster"

read more

April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up

Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that's right, we've reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history... read more

What Does A Ghost Smell Like? Google Nose.

Google is shutting down YouTube? Good riddance! There hasn't been a video worth watching since Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract anyway.... read more

Twitter Announces "Twttr" -- Will Start Charging $5 A Month If You Want To Tweet Using Vowels

read more

Apple's iWatch Is Actually Just A Wrist Band That Attaches To Your iPhone, iPad

The much-rumored Apple iWatch isn't as exciting as you might have thought.... read more

Singaporean Sushi Bar Acquires Tech Firm, Turns Founders Into Sushi Chefs

read more

Reinventing Job Classifieds Shows How Much Room There Remains For Fresh Ideas

read more

EBay Beats Out Amazon To Lead $50M Round In India's E-Commerce Giant Snapdeal To Build Up Its BRIC Business

Online e-commerce giant eBay last week said that it expects to have 12% of its sales coming from BRIC countries by 2015 in a global e-commerce market that will... read more

Tesla Kills The Entry-Level, 40 kWh Model S Citing Poor Demand

The Model S just got a little more expensive. Tesla just announced that the company will no longer offer the least expensive Model S electric sedan. Per a Tesla... read more

Nuance Announces Voice Ads, So You Can Talk To Mobile Advertising

Nuance, a company known for its voice technology, is getting into the advertising business.... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // March 29, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 29, 2013

Bitcoin: How An Unregulated, Decentralized Virtual Currency Just Became A Billion Dollar Market

Hang around in the tech industry long enough and you or someone you know will be heard saying, "that's so crazy it just might work." Two years ago, if you'd... read more

Facebook To Reveal "Home On Android" Sources Say Is A Modified OS On HTC At 4/4 Event

Facebook just invited press to an event at its headquarters on April 4th to "Come See Our New Home On Android". Sources tell us it will be a modified version of... read more

OUYA's Julie Uhrman Unveils The Android Console's Interface And Games

Today is a big day for OUYA, the Kickstarter-backed, Android-based game console. The company is announcing that its $99 console will be available on June 4 (the... read more

Sprint Nextel and SoftBank Agree Not To Use Huawei Equipment After Merger

Sprint Nextel and SoftBank have pledged not to use equipment from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies after they merge. Congressman Mike... read more

Enterprise-Class 3D Printers To Drop Under $2,000 By 2016, Says Report

3D printing is still in its infancy. But, to use an overused phrase, it is the future. From home use to enterprise use, 3D printing will continue to grow and... read more

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope Maps The Universe With NASA's Data

The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including... read more

Office-As-A-Service RocketSpace Doubles Real Estate To Accomodate Bigger Startups

Startups around the world are desperate for office space in the San Francisco Bay Area, so tomorrow RocketSpace will announce the lease of a new 50,000 sq. ft.... read more

Backed By General Catalyst Partners & First Round Capital, Chloe & Isabel Offers A Modern, Tech-Savvy Take On Direct-Selling

When many people think of direct-selling, they envision Tupperware parties or pink-suited women lugging cases of cosmetics door-to-door. New direct-selling... read more

Delicious Becomes A Bit More Social Again, Adds Twitter And Facebook Logins

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Under Amazon's Wing, Goodreads Plans Closer Integration While Retaining Its Indie Status

Following this afternoon's announcement that Amazon has agreed to acquire Goodreads, I had a few minutes to talk to the Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler and Amazon... read more

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