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Top Stories of the Day // February 8, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 8, 2013

Startup Founders: Chill Or Get Help

There is a certain kind of Silicon Valley striver that I find abhorrent but, being separated by them by a full continent I feel I'm far enough removed to... read more

Nexus 4 Owners Estimate One Million Handsets Have Shipped Since November 2012 Launch

Nexus 4 production run estimates -- crowdsourced by Android enthusiasts on the XDA Developer forum using each device's IMEI number -- suggest the millionth... read more

Meet The Next 10 Companies To Come Out Of StartX, Stanford's Student Startup Accelerator

Stanford's student startup accelerator, StartX, had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the... read more

Apple's iPhone Sales Grow By As Much As 400% In 3 Months In India, But There's A Huge Gap To Close

Apple's next big growth market could be India – a country where it has failed to find significant purchase with consumers up until this point. The Economic... read more

Amazon To Set Up Secondhand Ebook Marketplace

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Kickstarter: The Hydra Is A Configurable Power Supply Perfect For Your Next Home Robot Build

Often the stuff that gets press attention from Kickstarter tends to focus on the consumer market, but the Hydra is a new project on the crowdfunding site that... read more

Payleven, The Samwer Square Clone, Surmounts Visa Hurdle With Chip And PIN Reader Now Sold In Europe

Payleven, the mobile payment company from the Samwer bothers' Rocket Internet incubator, is now taking orders for its chip-and-PIN readers, which it says makes... read more

AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Sales Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years

AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012: revenues came in at $599.5 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts... read more

Everyone Stop DM-ing On Twitter And Start Using The Moped App Now, It's Way Better

One of the great things about Twitter is that - unlike email - people are forced to get to the point by the limits on the medium. But unlike email, you can't CC... read more

LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings

Right after yesterday's earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD) have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the company's earnings. Revenue is up... read more

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