Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // August 7, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 7, 2013

Yahoo Will Update Its Logo!

Yahoo unveiled a new logo today with a sans serif font similar to the ones used in other companies' recent image overhauls, but keeps its purple color and... read more

Voice Messaging Comes To Whatsapp

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I Built A Windows Phone App And It Freaking Sucks

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How Obama Can Say "We Don't Have A Domestic Spying Program" Without Lying

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AOL Is Acquiring Video Ad Platform Adap.tv For $405M

TechCrunch-owner AOL just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire video advertising platform Adap.tv in a deal that should be worth a total of... read more

Equip Your Home Drone Build With Super-Accurate GPS Thanks To The Piksi On Kickstarter

Most GPS is a relatively imprecise tool, honing in on your location to within around a few meters, but new Kickstarter project Piksi aims to provide accuracy... read more

Fast-Growing Cloud Hosting Service Digital Ocean Raises $3.2M Seed Round Led By IA Ventures To Build Out Its Infrastructure

Digital Ocean, one of the fastest-growing cloud hosting services around, today announced that it has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by IA Ventures, with... read more

Amazon Appstore Now Open To Web Apps, With One-Click In-App Purchases In Tow

Amazon today is announcing a significant expansion to its mobile application marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, which will now be open to developers of HTML5 web... read more

Facebook Graph Search Out For All U.S. English Users, Hiding Timeline Search By Name Setting Dies Today

Facebook's Graph Search, the tool that lets you search in plain language across information shared by friends and anyone on Facebook to find stuff like "People... read more

Design Competition Model Is Working For 99designs, Especially In Asia

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