Top Stories of the Day // August 23, 2012

	Welcome to the first Crunch Daily newsletter! You are receiving this digest of startup news and updates as an email subscriber to TechCrunch. This newsletter replaces your existing subscription via FeedBurner. If you do not wish to receive these daily emails in the future, feel free to unsubscribe from this newsletter. Disrupt Early Bird Ticket Sales end this Friday, August 24th. This is your last chance to buy a ticket at $1,995. After August 24th, General Admission Tickets will be $2,995. Today's Top Stories // Aug 23, 2012 Matt Burns 25 Years Later, Microsoft Unveils A Revamped Corporate Logo Microsoft has a new look. The company just took the wraps off its new corporate branding. Replacing its previous logo is a staunch, four-pane colored window... read more Matt Burns This Video Pits Parts From The New iPhone Against The iPhone 4S, Galaxy S III The new iPhone is coming and this video by SmartPhoneMedic provides the best look at the changes yet. Ignore the cheesy intro; the video is legit. It shows not... read more Ingrid Lunden Sony Mobile To Lay Off 1,000 People, Move HQ To Tokyo From Sweden As Part of Restructuring The crunch among handset makers who are not Samsung and Apple continues apace. Today, Android OEM Sony announced that its loss-making mobile handset division... read more Anthony Ha Tumblr 'Truly Disappointed' That Twitter Revoked Its Friend-Finding Privileges Twitter isn't done with its efforts to take tighter control of its API — now Tumblr users can no longer search for their Twitter friends when they sign up on... read more Josh Constine Why The OFT And FTC Let Facebook Buy Instagram: FB Camera Is Tiny, IG Makes No Money, And Google Evidence from Facebook and Instagram plus analysis from outside experts has convinced the Federal Trade Commission to today approve the landmark acquisition.... read more Ryan Lawler PLAiR Is A Sub-$100, Dolphin Fin-Shaped USB Dongle For Streaming Online Video To Your TV Hey guys! So remember when yesterday, I wrote about some awesome new startup that raised some money but didn't want to talk about the product it was building?... read more Leena Rao Pandora Ships Its Biggest Android Update Yet With A Redesign, Music Exploration Features And More Pandora has been fairly open about the fact that mobile is a major focus for the music streaming company. More than 70% of listening on Pandora takes place on a... read more Chris Velazco Nokia Said To Reveal "Arrow" And "Phi" Windows Phone 8 Devices On September 5 Nokia is expected to pull back the curtains on its new slew of Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia phones on September 5, but the Finnish phone company has been... read more John Biggs President Reagan's Son Wants To Free You From The Shackles Of Liberal Email At Reagan.com I usually don't like to dip my nose into politics on these pages, but this is pretty hot stuff. If you - or someone you love - wants to play this one for the... read more Colleen Taylor Patent Expert Christopher Marlett On Why Apple Could Win Out Over Samsung In Court [TCTV] The jury is still out -- literally -- on the Apple v. Samsung court case, in which Apple has accused Samsung of copying the iPhone and the iPad designs with its... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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