Top Stories of the Day // November 9, 2012

	Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Nov 9, 2012 Alexia Tsotsis You Can't Put Price Tag On A TechCrunch Post "News is something someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising."   -- Lord Northcliffe... read more Michael Arrington Is There Much Of A Market For A Universal Translator? Microsoft has an impressive new universal translator demonstration - Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid shows a real time translation of English (voice) to... read more Josh Constine Reddit CEO Asks Users To Buy Revamped Membership Because Ads Are "One Of The Reasons Digg Failed" "We could theoretically load up our pages with ads and probably make enough to cover our costs. However, that would significantly degrade the experience of... read more John Biggs Kickstarter: Release Your Inner James Bond With These High-Tech Linear Watches High-tech watches are, arguably, a dime-a-dozen. But the Division Furtive electro-mechanical watch is something special. Built using a series of Swiss... read more Ryan Lawler Airbnb: Our Guests Stay Longer And Spend More Than Hotel Guests, Contributing $56M To The San Francisco Economy Over the past few years, there's been some question about what effect peer-to-peer lodging marketplace Airbnb has on the hotel and tourism industry. Now the... read more Natasha Lomas Feel The Force: Angry Birds Star Wars Tops U.S. App Store In Record 2.5 Hours, Says Rovio Rovio's Angry Birds Star Wars mash-up launched yesterday -- and took just 2.5 hours to reach the number one spot in the U.S. App Store. In a blog post... read more Anthony Ha Plan Your Next Trip With Desti, A Conversational iPad App Spun Out From Siri-Creator SRI There's no shortage of travel guides and services on the web, but in some ways, that can be a curse — travel-planning can become a long process of browsing... read more Natasha Lomas European M-Payments Company Payleven Signs Berlin Taxi Firm To Chip & PIN Trial, Claims Chip & PIN "Necessary" For Visa Mobile Payments Square has Starbucks and now Square-clone Payleven, which is backed by Germany's Rocket Internet incubator/investor, has signed up Berlin taxi association --... read more Jordan Crook Konekt.me Is A LinkedIn For Creative Professionals There are plenty of resources on the internet to maintain a professional profile. LinkedIn is the most prominent, but none really cater specifically to the... read more Natasha Lomas U.K.'s First 4G Network, EE, Delays SIM-Only Tariff Launch For Up To Two Weeks 4G carrier EE, the freshly rebranded parent of Orange and T-Mobile in the U.K. which also owns and operates the U.K.'s first (and currently only) 4G/LTE... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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