Top Stories of the Day // August 6, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns in September and the countdown is on: less than 2 weeks left to get Early Bird tickets. Register now! Today's Top Stories // Aug 6, 2013 MG Siegler While We're Trying To Follow His Game Of Checkers, Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess A few years ago, I just didn't get it. I couldn't for the life of me understand how a company like Amazon could operate, let alone flourish. I spent the... read more Darrell Etherington Amazon Launches Art Store, Putting Multi-Million Dollar Paintings In Your Virtual Shopping Cart Amazon has launched a new online fine art store, as an extension of its marketplace partner offerings. The store offers access to more than 40,000 works,... read more Darrell Etherington Samsung's Smartwatch Shows Up In Trademark Filing As "Galaxy Gear" Samsung filed a newly-discovered trademark with the USPTO dated July 29 for the Galaxy Gear, a name for "wearable digital electronic devices in the form of a... read more Darrell Etherington Samsung Teases BBM For Android As BlackBerry Further Telegraphs Its BBM Platform Play Samsung is using the upcoming launch of BBM for Android to promote its Galaxy devices, Samsung App Store and Messaging Hub in a new release targeting the... read more John Biggs TC Alum Drew Olanoff Talks To The Conan O'Brien Show About Google Glass It's with a tear in my eye that I share this little snippet with you - our own Drew Olanoff, who now works at Yahoo! with most of the rest of Palo Alto, talking... read more Catherine Shu Snapzoom and Shuttr Allow Smartphones To Take Clear High-Resolution Macro and Long-Distance Shots Last week I wrote about Shuttr, the tiny Bluetooth remote control for smartphones that lets users take better self-portraits and group shots. But Shuttr can be... read more Ansel Halliburton YC-Backed SimpleLegal Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning SimpleLegal's system ingests invoices and parses each line item into its database. Natural language processing systems figure out who billed what and for how... read more Mike Butcher Guardius Is A New App For Finding The Add-Ons That Make Your Browser Crawl Browser plug-ins, toolbars and add-ons have proliferated over the years. While many are useful, others seem to become trojan horses, allowing the original... read more Anthony Ha Unroll.me, A Startup That Battles Junk Mail And Manages Subscriptions, Says It Has 100K+ Subscribers We've written about Unroll.me, a service that helps users manage their junk email and subscriptions, before — most recently when it was redesigned in April.... read more Anthony Ha Engagor Raises $2.6M To Bring Its Social Media Management Tools To The US Engagor, a Belgian startup that offers tools for large brands to manage their presence on social media, is announcing that it has raised $2.6 million in Series... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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