Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 14, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 14, 2013

Samsung Wants You To Figure Out What To Do With Its Flexible Displays

Samsung is having a unique kind of contest, the company announced today, and it's not the kind where someone walks away with a Galaxy S4. The Korean smartphone... read more

Sphero 2.0 Is Twice As Fast, Agile, And Awesome

Get ready for the next generation of playing with your balls.... read more

Om Malik, Father Of Tech News Blogging, American Citizen

Om Malik is good people. He is also as of today, after a cornucopia of Visas and a decade as a Green Card holder, an American citizen.... read more

Apple Scoops Up Matcha.tv To Pack More Smarts Into Apple TV

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Smartphones Finally Overtook Dumbphone Sales Globally In Q2, Android Now At 79%, Says Gartner

Analyst Gartner has put out its latest smartphone market report, and the Q2 2013 numbers show the inevitable finally occurred: smartphone sales exceeded feature... read more

Braintree Takes On Stripe, PayPal With Debut Of "Marketplace"

Payments gateway Braintree is launching a new service today called Marketplace, an API designed for mobile - you guessed it - marketplace operators. The new... read more

HTC: Hell That's Confusing

After much fanfare including a mundane video teaser, HTC just released the first part of their latest advertising campaign. Starring Robert "Iron Man" Downey... read more

Twitter Is Testing Out A New 'TV Trending' Box At The Top Of Your Timeline

Twitter is betting big on TV, both as a source of traffic and as a potential source of lucrative advertising revenue. And that's leading the company to test out... read more

Spiri Is A Programmable Quadcopter That Lets Developers Focus On Building Airborne Apps

If you're hankering to hurry up a Half Life-style future of eye-in-the-sky scanners keeping tabs on the comings and goings of human meat-bags you're going to... read more

What Zynga's Management Shake-Up Under New CEO Mattrick Means

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