Top Stories of the Day // November 2, 2012

	The 2012 Crunchies Awards are back in their 6th edition! The awards will be co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. Nominate your favorite companies, people, and products until December 6th, 2012. When: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 7:30pm - 11:30pm Where? Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA 94102 Buy Tickets here: http://crunchies2012.eventbrite.com Nominate: http://crunchies2012.techcrunch.com/nominate/ Rules: http://techcrunch.com/events/crunchies-2012/rules/ Today's Top Stories // Nov 2, 2012 Alexia Tsotsis Fancy Car For Sale Outside Zynga Taken Way Too Symbolically The signal du jour? This $195k Lamborghini for sale parked outside the Zynga offices (the Zynga dog eerily reflected in its window), uploaded to Instagram by... read more Darrell Etherington Apple's iPad Mini Launch Draws Smaller Crowds Than Previous Product Debuts The iPad mini officially went on sale today, and the response at physical retail stores has been mixed. Some areas are seeing decent-sized lines, according to... read more Chris Velazco Nexus 4 Review: Not Exactly Perfect, But Close Enough For Me It seems like ages since Google and HTC first kicked off the Nexus experiment (it was 2010, but who's counting?). Now here we are, over two years later, and... read more Natasha Lomas Samsung Galaxy Note II Phablet Sells Three Million+ In One Month+ Of Sales, ~3X Faster Sales Rate That Original Galaxy Note Turns out there are an awful lot of phablet fans out there. More than three million, in fact, have lined up to cram Samsung's latest smartphone-cum-tablet, the... read more Jordan Crook Watch The iPad Mini And Nexus 7 Face Off In A Drop Test The folks over at Android Authority have put together a cute little drop test for the iPad Mini and the Nexus 7, and you may be surprised at which tablet walks... read more Natasha Lomas Apple Removes "Incorrect" Legal Statement From U.K. Website Following Court Order In iPad Vs. Galaxy Tab Case Apple has pulled down a legal statement posted on its website after it lost an appeal in a U.K. court against a ruling that Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablets do... read more Darrell Etherington Microsoft Is Reportedly Testing Its Own Smartphone First it built the Surface, and now Microsoft is said to be working on another new hardware product, this time a smartphone. That's according to a new report... read more Romain Dillet Squarespace, Fog Creek, Peer1 Kept NY Data Center Alive By Carrying Fuel Buckets To The 17th Floor In The Dark Small businesses may have been even more affected than big companies by Hurricane Sandy, as they don't have the same resources. When Squarespace sent an email... read more Romain Dillet Google France Faces Fine Of $1.3 Billion For Tax Noncompliance. Google Denies The Accusation. Google France could be ordered to pay $1.3 billion to France's equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des finances) due to tax noncompliance in 2011. The... read more Drew Olanoff Review: Google's Android OS Might Be Better Suited For Tablets, And The Nexus 10 Is A Shining Example This week, Google announced a new lineup of devices that would be running its Android OS, Jelly Bean version 4.2. Those new devices are a phone and a new... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // October 19, 2012

	Brought to you by Today's Top Stories // Oct 19, 2012 Rip Empson Blackboard: With Both Co-founders Now Gone, It's The End Of An Era For The Education Software Giant This week, in a letter addressed to "The Education Community," Michael Chasen stepped down as the CEO of edtech software giant, Blackboard. In a way, it's the... read more Matt Burns There's A 3G Samsung Chromebook Coming Soon And It's Just $329 Wait! Belay that order for the $249 Samsung Chromebook! There's a 3G model coming and it's just $329. That's a great deal.... read more Gregory Ferenstein Interview With Reddit Troll, 'Violentacrez', On Anderson Cooper [Video] Notorious smut peddler, "Violentacrez", gave his first Interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper last night. After being outed by Gawker last week, the 49-year-old... read more Natasha Lomas Raspberry Pi Mini Computer: Tiny $35/$25 Price-Tag Could Be Squeezed A little Lower -- But Don't Expect Sub-$20 Pi How low could the Raspberry Pi mini computer's price-tag go in future? Eben Upton, founder of the not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation and the man behind the... read more Darrell Etherington Source: iPad Mini Will Hit Stores And Ship To Early Buyers November 2 Apple's iPad mini is almost certainly set to be announced next week at an event in San Jose Tuesday, and we're now hearing that it will ship a week and a half... read more Frederic Lardinois Google Adds 25 Million New Building Footprints To Google Maps On Desktop And Mobile Google just announced that it has added 25 million new building footprints to Google Maps. Most of the company's recent announcement around mapping had to do... read more Sarah Perez Binder Reviews On Amazon.com Fill With Romney-Related Comments OK, it's no Three Wolf Moon t-shirt, but it's still pretty funny. Following Mitt Romney's comment about "binders full of women" at this week's presidential... read more Gregory Ferenstein French Law Endangers Google's 'Very Existence', Threatens Country-Wide News Boycott What happens if Google boycotts an entire country's news content? We might get to witness such a trade war if Google excludes French news from its search... read more Anthony Ha Self-Serve Ad Platform SiteScout Now Has 5,000 Customers, $20M In Revenue Digital ad startup SiteScout has mostly stayed out of the tech press for the past couple of years, but the company says it has been growing quickly in that... read more Mike Butcher Is DataHug's Social CRM App Turning Into The VC's Secret Weapon? A lot of people are going after something that's been dubbed the social CRM - companies like the much written about Brewster for instance. But there is more... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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