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Top Stories of the Day // August 8, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 8, 2013

Bitcoin Clampdown Continues As Federal Judge Says It's A Currency

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YouTube Founders Introduce MixBit To Crack The Code Of Video Editing On Mobile

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Facebook Battles Snapchat For Visual Communication By Letting iOS Messenger Send Instagrams

Snapchat sends 200 million private photo messages a day. WhatsApp sends 325 million. These are scary numbers for Facebook that prove the visual communication is... read more

NYC Startup KeyMe Releases An App That Promises You'll Never Get Locked Out Again

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The College Students Behind Norway's Hit Fun Run Look To Become More Than A One-Hit Wonder

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BandPage Aims To Be Necessary With Deal To Help Artists Manage VEVO And Xbox Music Profiles

Bandpage has been trying to rebuild as a cross-web tool for managing musician presences since it got steamrolled by Facebook Timeline. Today it took a big step... read more

Tech City Gets Another Bootcamp As Oxygen Accelerator Moves From Brum To Google's Campus London

Bye bye Birmingham. Hello London. The U.K.-based Oxygen Accelerator startup bootcamp is moving down south, from the Midlands city where it was born back in 2011... read more

Apple Developing Audio Hyperlinks, A Way For Audio Streams To Link To Other Media Or Control Devices

Apple is working on a new kind of "audio hyperlink" technology that would use audible or inaudible signals embedded in a music or other audio track to link out... read more

Disney Animated, A New $13.99 iPad App, Taps Into The Crossover Of Animation Fans And Premium App Consumers

Perhaps all too aware of how some old media companies have failed to embrace the digital age forced upon them, Disney has tried to jump with two feet into areas... read more

Ubuntu Edge Price Drops Again, Canonical Now Needs Even More Backers To Succeed

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Wyatt Kash What Lawmakers Missed In Federal Data Center Hearings
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Navy App Streamlines Transport Logistics
Cloud software tool helps the military agency move people and equipment around the world more efficiently.

Death By Hacking: Tomorrow's IT Worry?
Medical device software vulnerabilities and cyber threats raise important new liability questions for CIOs and CISOs.

Why The Private Sector Lags VA In Telehealth
The VA's focus on efficiency and controlling the costs of treating aging patients have made it a telehealth model. Can the private sector learn from its example?

GSA's eBuy Site Goes Mobile
GSA's mobile tool includes text message alerts and can help small businesses win government contracts for products and services.

iPhone Sales Ban Overturned, Samsung Takes Hit
Obama administration vetoes a ban that would have blocked sales of older Apple iPhones; Samsung stock loses $1 billion in value and Korean government expresses concern.

DOD Launches Wire Service For Employees
News aggregator milWire scours Internet for info relevant to Department of Defense employees, joins other tools including a YouTube-like service on DOD-only website.

RoboSub Competition Winners: Full Speed Ahead
Office of Naval Research program encourages STEM students to build underwater autonomous vehicles.


 
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