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Ultimate Ears Boom: The Speaker Jambox Wants to Be 
Mashable (Today) - Forget Jambox. It's officially been replaced, at least in my mind, by the Ultimate Ears Boom: A portable wireless speaker that sounds almost as good as a much larger home... - New In Last Hour
3 Mindbending Ways Apple Dodged $13.8B In Taxes 
Techcrunch (Today) - Kudos to Apple's finance lawyers, who are the Cirque Du Soleil of legal contortionism. On the eve of live testimony from CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Phillip Bullock,... 
New U.K. Edtech Entity To Spend Up To $77M Acquiring European E-Learning Firms Over Next 18 Months To Build Regional Giant Techcrunch (Today) - Expect a swathe of consolidation in the European e-learning sector in the coming months. Edxus Group, a new London-based corporate operating edtech company, is planning to plough in €50-60 million... - In the last 2 hours
Unity makes its Android and iOS video game development tools free to small and independent studios 
Tech news (Today) - Unity Technologies, the company behind the Unity cross-platform video game engine and development software, announced today that its mobile tools are now free for small and independent studios. The Unity...... 
MoviePass Removes Wait List for Unlimited Theater Tickets Mashable (Today) - Going to the movies is an expensive pastime, especially if you're a frequent visitorMoviePass, a service that launched late last year, is trying to ease the financial burden for film... 
Brightpearl Raises $8 Million Series B For Its Cloud Software To Help Retailers Manage Sales Across Multiple Channels Techcrunch (Today) - In what is effectively a follow-on round, Brightpearl, the cloud software provider for multichannel retailers, has raised $8 million in Series B funding from previous backers Eden Ventures and Notion... 
Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS And Android Developers Techcrunch (Today) - The barrier to entry for the Unity game rendering engine for developers on iOS and Android has gotten lower, as use of Unity tech is now free on both mobile... 
After hitting 1m users in its first week, MessageMe crosses 5m users just 75 days after launch Tech news (Today) - MessageMe, the US-based chat app looking to rival Line, WhatsApp, Viber and co, has confirmed that it has closed a $10 million round of seed funding and, furthermore, that it has passed 5 million...... 
With A Media-Rich Platform To Stand Out From The Messaging Pack, MessageMe Hits 5M Users In 2.5 Months [Interview] Techcrunch (Today) - Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today,... 
Nimble’s CRM platform gets more social with Linkedin-like ‘Today’ feature, filtering and more apps Tech news (Today) - Nimble, a social contact relationship management service, today launched a new version of its platform designed to help people keep in touch with their business connections in a “deeper and...... 
Apple and Google to lead charge as wearable tech becomes $30-$50 billion market 
BGR gadgets (Today) - Recent estimates suggested devices like Google Glass and Apple’s upcoming “iWatch” could be the start of a wearable tech explosion that generates as much as $6 billion annually by 2016.... - Older News
YouTube: The Newest Dog Toy Mashable (Today) - Did you hear that YouTube has hit the impressive milestone of one billion visitors a month? What the video-sharing site didn't reveal, however, is how many of those visitors are... 
Google to Retire Checkout in November 2013 Mashable (Today) - Google will retire its payment processing service, Google Checkout, on November 20, 2013, as part of a transition to its multi-platform payment system — Google Wallet
Checkout was launched in June... 
Can We Say Crowdfunding Bubble? U.K. Charity Launches Directory To Help Navigate Nation's 30+ Local Platforms Techcrunch (Today) - How many crowdfunding platforms is evidence of a crowdfunding bubble? Well, when an organisation feels the need to launch a directory to list and detail all of the options in... 
Science-Backed Ecommerce Recommendation Startup Uncovet Raises $1.3M Techcrunch (Today) - Uncovet, a startup that wants to be the recommendation engine for indie designer clothing and accessories, has raised $1.3 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and L.A. angel investor... 
'Wired' Completely Overhauls Print Magazine Mashable (Today) - Wired is debuting a new look for its June issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The magazine has been completely made over by Scott Dadich, who before being named editor-in-chief last... 
Newspaper Companies Invest Another $9M In Local Deal Startup Wanderful Media Techcrunch (Today) - Wanderful Media has raised another $9 million from the long list of media companies that were already backing the startup and its local deal service Find&Save.
The announcement comes after the... 
Now you can tour the whole of Taiwan without losing your Internet connection, for free Tech news (Today) - Internet connection while travelling overseas is a huge boon – you can find your way with Google Maps, suss out must-eats nearby you, and check the weather so you don’t...... 
Former Thief Invents Theft-Proof ATMs From His Cell Mashable (Today) - Who knows security better than a thief?
Romanian computer expert Valentin Boanta used to supply thieves with the skimmers they used to gather information to create fake bank cards and then... 
Don't snatch! Disney Research builds robot that takes objects more naturally 
Technology (Today) - They may not make for the showiest videos, but some of the most interesting problems in robotics are to do with the subtleties of human interaction. Even something as apparently...
