Top Stories of the Day // January 31, 2013

	Watch the Crunchies awards show LIVE on TechCrunch from San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday. Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Jan 31, 2013 Frederic Lardinois Microsoft Launches Modern.IE To Help Developers Test Their Web Apps For Legacy And Modern Versions Of IE Even though Microsoft itself would prefer to change this, many users still rely on older versions of Internet Explorer. For developers, this means spending... read more Gregory Ferenstein Read What Facebook's Sandberg Calls Maybe 'The Most important Document Ever To Come Out Of The Valley' read more Josh Constine Facebook Tries Letting You Share Emoticons Of Exactly What You're Feeling, Reading Or Eating Facebook is poised to get a lot more expressive. Today it began tests of a new status composer that lets you select "what are you doing?", and share an emoticon... read more John Biggs How Two Undergraduates Went From Forever Alone To Thousands In Sales A team of undergraduates at Queens College in New York led by Matt Sconce had a semi-bright idea: they'd make Forever Alone statuettes.... read more Kim-Mai Cutler The Surprising iOS Games That Saw The Most Active Usage In The U.S. Last Month read more MG Siegler Hold The Phone, I Want My Dick Tracy Watch A few days ago, I read Nilay Patel's review of the Pebble smartwatch for The Verge. Like many others, I bought a Pebble on Kickstarter, and I can't wait to... read more Darrell Etherington Google Adds New Notification Center To Chrome Code, Could Grow Into Full Google Now Desktop Support Google Now is probably one of my favorite things about Android, which is why it's great news that a new Chromium build includes a notification center, which,... read more Gregory Ferenstein Mark Cuban's Awesome Justification For Endowing A Chair To 'Eliminate Stupid Patents' Outspoken billionaire, Mark Cuban, is fed up with America's patent system. "Dumbass patents are crushing small businesses. I have had multiple small companies i... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents Crowdsourced, Peer-To-Peer Mobile Banking That Could Use iTunes To Provide Cash On Demand Today the USPTO published an Apple patent application that ventures a little farther afield than most, and describes a mobile banking concept that is truly... read more Darrell Etherington Twitter Currently Experiencing Widespread, Rolling Service Outage Twitter is currently experiencing a widespread service outage that appears to be intermittent, according to our checks with the web client, third-party apps and... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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