Thursday, November 29, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // November 29, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Nov 29, 2012

Microsoft Trolls The Trolls In Latest IE10 Ad

The folks at Microsoft have just released a clever commercial for Internet Explorer 10, the latest version of the company's once dominant web browser which has... read more

Twitter's Response To PeopleBrowsr Lawsuit: 'This Is Contracts 101'

When the news broke earlier this evening that PeopleBrowsr had won a temporary restraining order protecting its access to Twitter's firehose of data, Twitter... read more

Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band

For Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and... read more

NPD: U.S. Windows Device Sales Down 21% On Last Year; Windows 8 Tablet Sales "Almost Non-Existent"

Microsoft earlier this week made a point of noting that there have been 40 million downloads of Windows 8 since it launched a month ago, putting it ahead of... read more

WordPress.com Launches Restaurant Vertical As It Pushes Platform Well Beyond Basic Blogging

Restaurants are kind of notorious for having painful web experiences -- either with websites that are horribly basic and out of date, or needlessly souped up... read more

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart team that included several relatively prominent... read more

Fantastical Lands On iPhone With A Calendar App Tailor-Made For Mobile Schedule Management

The iPhone's Calendar app is pretty good overall, and that's something that even Fantastical creator and Flexibits co-founder Michael Simmons admitted to in an... read more

Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share

Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the... read more

Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone

Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it's hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational... read more

Acquia Lands $30 Million Series E To Scale Out Its Enterprise Drupal Development Platform

Acquia, the company that makes a suite of software tools for the open source web development and content management system Drupal, has secured $30 million in a... read more

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