Thursday, September 27, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // September 27, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Sep 27, 2012

Google's Eric Schmidt Talks Apple Partnership, Samsung And Patent Problems

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is in Seoul attending the launch of the Nexus 7 in Korea Thursday, and he's been very talkative on a number of topics, as... read more

Airbnb Is Raising A Big Third Round, Aiming For A Valuation North Of $2B

It's the darling of "sharing economy" startups, Y Combinator and a good portion of Silicon Valley's top investors, and a symbol of consumer web startups moving... read more

RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Sad

RIM is holding some sort of developer conference this week somewhere in North America. It's unclear what they actually announced or revealed because everyone... read more

Watch Google's Eric Schmidt Dance Gangnam Style

Yep. This really happened on a recent Asian business trip to help launch the Nexus 7. Good for Schmidt. Homeboy knows how to have fun. Next up, Steve Ballmer... read more

RIM Employee's OOO Reply This Week Is Both Epic And Inspiring

RIM is holding its yearly developers conference this week, playing host to over a thousand developers still dedicated to the BlackBerry platform. The company... read more

Pew Pew Pew! iPhone 5 Destroyed By Lasers [Video]

I've avoided posting videos of people shooting the iPhone with bullets, dropping iPhones into squirrel pens, and ingesting and then excreting iPhones because I... read more

Rovio's Bad Piggies Goes Live In The App Store: Build Bridges, Don't Burn Them

Angry Birds is now a household name. Even Rovio (the company responsible for the ultra-successful bird-flinging app) is a logo as familiar as EA's. But today... read more

Live From Rome — It's The TechCrunch Italy CrunchUp #TCItaly

We're delighted to showcase Italian startups at our CrunchUp event in Rome today, which we've dubbed TechCrunch Italy. Check out the live stream. Our thanks to... read more

Apple Patents In-Screen Speakers, Flexible Displays And Tactile Keyboards For Future iPhones And iPads

Apple has published a new patent today, one that takes the possibilities for future iOS mobile devices and adds a whole heap of abilities seemingly ripped from... read more

Firefox OS Will Have 'Niche' 1% Of Smartphones In 2013, As Android Corners Low-Cost Segment

Google's Android smartphone OS is facing a lot of challengers in the low-cost smartphone segment, from Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Nokia at the vendor end to... read more

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