Top Stories of the Day // July 30, 2013

	Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register today and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Jul 30, 2013 Anthony Ha Crowdfunding Reaches Its Terrible, Glorious Climax With 'Smart Vibrator' Vibease The startup behind a "wearable smart vibrator" called Vibease has taken to Indiegogo with hopes of raising at least $30,000 from fans.... read more Alex Williams Forrester Says The Chromebook's Time Has Arrived In The Enterprise, But Security Is The Nagging Issue IT should ignore the naysayers and consider adopting the Google Chromebook. That's the conclusion of a Forrester Research Report that looked at the future of... read more Leena Rao Hilary Mason Leaves Bitly To Join VC Firm Accel As Its First Data Scientist In Residence Accel Partners is announcing a major talent win tonight, with the addition of former Bitly chief scientist Hilary Mason as its first data scientist in... read more Natasha Lomas HTC's Hardship Continues As It Predicts Operating Loss In Q3 No surprise: HTC's run of declining quarters is predicted to continue. But the dip now looks set to push into the red in Q3. The Android mobile maker has just... read more Darrell Etherington Vaavud Smartphone Wind Meter Now Available, Use Your Phone To Measure Windspeed Like It's The Future Kickstarter success Vaavud is a thing of beauty. Created by a Danish team of enterprising inventors, it plugs into your iPhone or Android device's headphone... read more Sarah Perez Netflix User Profiles Start Appearing On Apple TV The long-awaited Netflix user profiles have made their first appearance, ahead of their expected August debut. According to several reports, user profiles are... read more Billy Gallagher Grid, An App That Helps You Organize Ideas And Projects, Announces A Seed Round From Jerry Yang, Phil Libin, Others Grid Grid, an "Excel minus the equations" app that helps you plan and organize more effectively and beautifully, announced today that it has raised a seed... read more alexjameswilhelm Zynga Sheds Three Top Execs As Its New CEO Shakes Up The Troubled Gaming Firm In the last month, Zynga has quietly parted ways with three of its executive staff, early changes under the period of transition that the company's new CEO,... read more Darrell Etherington Apple Patents Triple Sensor, Triple Lens iPhone Camera For Better Resolution And Color Accuracy Apple has been granted a new patent related to camera tech by the USPTO today, which uses three different sensors and three different lenses to improve color... read more Kim-Mai Cutler Facebook Announces New Mobile Game Publishing Effort read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein Why Labor Unions And Silicon Valley Aren’t Friends, In 2 Charts None of the Internet giants have unionized employees, which has made Silicon Valley a favorite target for civil libertarians. Earlier this month, after… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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