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Friday, September 7, 2012

Top Stories of the Day // September 7, 2012

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Today's Top Stories // Sep 7, 2012

Best Email Ever: How One Soldier Stationed In Afghanistan Got His Amazon News Today

It's only my third official day on the job at TechCrunch, but it's been a pretty awesome time thus far. We saw an email come through the wires that stopped us... read more

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About HTML5* (*But Were Afraid To Ask) [Slides]

The rise of native apps as the primary medium for mobile content is a trend that shows no signs of slowing down at the moment -- if anything, it's growing, with... read more

Barack Obama's Record-Setting Speech: 52,757 Tweets Per Minute, 9M Total DNC Tweets

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records while he was at... read more

More Evidence For September 21 Ship Date For iPhone 5

Back in August, TechCrunch received word that Verizon was planning a vacation blackout for September 21 to September 30, indicating that would be the release... read more

TechCrunch's Picks: The Top 5 Companies From StartX's Summer 2012 Demo Day

18 companies presented at the StartX summer demo day today. The summer 2012 class is StartX's seventh and largest class; the accelerator, started in 2010, has... read more

Amazon's Silk Browser Now Tracking User Behavior For New "Trending Now" Section...Wait, What?

Oh did you hear? Amazon announced a bunch of new Kindles yesterday. And here's another little tidbit  - those devices, the Kindle Fire and Fire HD, are also... read more

A New $150M Fund Underscores The Bigger Ambitions of Kushner's Thrive Capital

Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital just became yet another of several upstart venture firms that have been able to raise progressively larger funds this year.... read more

Rumored: Development To Cease For Twitter's Mac Client

Here's a piece of Twitter news that would really make me sad. According to former TechCrunch full-time writer guy, MG Siegler, Twitter will cease to support and... read more

Contour+2 Action Camera Packs HD Video, Live Streaming Into $400 Package

A year later and one hundred dollars cheaper than its predecessor, Seattle-based Contour announced its Contour+2 action camera this week and will be available... read more

The Last Big Independent Social Marketer Syncapse Pimps Itself For Acquisition With Analytics Suite

Syncapse wants to get bought. All it's well funded competitors -- Buddy Media, Vitrue, Involver, Wildfire -- already have. So today it releases a new analytics... read more

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