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Let's try that again: Top Stories of the Day // June 27, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Jun 27, 2013

21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma

Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel's 20-Under-20 fellows, just raised $3.8 million for... read more

The DEA Seized Bitcoins In A Silk Road Drug Raid

In the underground world of the deep web there are few places as nefarious as Silk Road. The site, hidden on the Tor network has long been one of the primary... read more

Leaked Details Of Facebook's New Chat Rooms Feature

Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the... read more

Need A Meme? Why Not Use Imgur's New Generator

Imgur, the image host for Reddit and most of the internet, just launched its own meme creation tool. And it's about the best meme generator available.... read more

With $38M To Play With, NumberFour Could Become A Global Business Platform

The emergence of NumberFour in Berlin - which has today announced a $38m Series A round - throws up a few interesting points worth briefly dwelling on. It may... read more

Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App

Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the... read more

Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest In Two Years

NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38... read more

With New Initiative 'Galactic,' PayPal Wants To Own Payments And Commerce In Space

In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space. read more

Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet

Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors.... read more

Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood

A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today... read more

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CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP

CrunchGov Essential: How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet

The U.S. has always included a sizable population of gay citizens. Without a way to coordinate their latent collective powers, discrimination and isolation… read more

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