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Today's Top Stories // Jul 3, 2013

Fliike Is An Internet Of Things-Styled Facebook 'Like' Counter For Local Businesses

A Facebook phone isn't cool, you know what's cool? An Internet of Things-styled 'Like' counter for local businesses who want to proudly display their Facebook... read more

Indie Gaming Hit Limbo Brings Its Macabre Black And White Charm To iOS

For Americans, the long weekend looms, so it's great timing for the release of Limbo, the indie gaming title from Danish developer Playdead, on Apple's iOS... read more

The Practical Meter Speeds Up Charging Your Smartphone Over USB

The Practical Meter plugs into the USB socket you intend to use to charge your phone and has built-in indicator lights to show how fast the charging connection... read more

YouTube Confirms Renewed VEVO Deal, Takes Stake In Company

YouTube confirmed that it has renewed its deal with music video distributor VEVO. Not only does the deal allow YouTube to keep VEVO's videos on its site, but it... read more

Another Video Ad Network Plans To Go Public, As YuMe Files For $65 Million IPO

This was supposed to be the year that all the big video ad networks would begin going public, and it looks like it's starting to come true. Less than a week... read more

Mobile Data Traffic To Grow 300% Globally By 2017 Led By Video, Web Use, Says Strategy Analytics

With smartphones and tablets replacing PCs as the default computing device for many consumers, so, too, is data traffic shifting from fixed to wireless... read more

Braintree Hits $10B In Annual Payments Processed As It Adds Swedish Game Developer Mojang To Its Client Roster

Mojang, the Swedish game developer behind Minecraft, Scrolls and Cobalt, has joined the list of tech companies that use Braintree as a mobile or online payment... read more

Netflix Follows Amazon With Expanded PBS Deal Of Its Own, Including A Couple Exclusives

Where go the kids, so go their parents' dollars...at least in the video streaming battle between Netflix and Amazon, that is. Following Amazon's announcement... read more

The TechCrunch Warsaw Meetup Is Go

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MYO Armband Control Device Launches Its Developer Program

Thalmic Labs today announced the launch of its MYO armband developer program. Interested developers can apply to become part of the program through the new... read more

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Charles Babcock Engine Yard PaaS Expands To Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will support Ruby on Rails developers working in Engine Yard platform-as-a-service starting July 31.


Altiscale Preps Large-Scale Hadoop As A Service
Startup, led by former Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata, aims to turn 10- and 20-node Hadoop users into 100- and 500-node users.

Microsoft's CRM Edge: On-Premises Deployment
Microsoft talks up personalization, mobile apps coming in Dynamics CRM 2013, but on-premises deployment may be this app's secret weapon.

Salesforce.com 'Betrayal' Seen Sparking Private-Cloud Moves
Analysts Jason Maynard and Ray Wang foresee private-cloud deployments by Salesforce.com, database gains for Oracle and new alliances among IBM, SAP and Workday.

Defense Dept. Seeks $450 Million Cloud Builder
$450 million in business up for grabs as DISA seeks provider for DOD cloud plans.

Oracle, NetSuite Partner To Storm Cloud
Oracle joins cloud HR apps with NetSuite ERP to take on SAP and Workday in competition for midsized companies.



 
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