Top Stories of the Day // May 9, 2013

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	Yesterday TechCrunch unveiled online learning destination CrunchU. Powered by Udemy, CrunchU offers students a set of world-class online courses curated by TechCrunch and taught by experts in subjects like web development, entrepreneurship and more. Sign up now and get 50% off! Today's Top Stories // May 9, 2013 Ingrid Lunden Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court Mobile Users Facebook appears to be close to making another billion-dollar acquisition to once again ramp up its mobile efforts: according to three reports in the Israeli... read more Darrell Etherington Google Visualizes Massive Changes To The Face Of The Earth With New Timelapse Project A lot can change in 28 years, and Google has put together a very graphic demonstration of just how much can happen geographically with a new effort that... read more Eric Eldon Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble and... read more Josh Constine Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary "Google And The World Brain" is a new documentary about Google's plan to scan all of the world's books, which triggered an ongoing lawsuit being heard today.... read more Catherine Shu Apple Supplier Pegatron's Hiring Spree Further Fuels Speculation About A Cheaper iPhone Once again, news from a supplier is fueling rumors about Apple's future product roster. This time it's manufacturer Pegatron's announcement that it will... read more Natasha Lomas Nokia's Smarterphone Buy Yields First Fruit: $99 Touchscreen Asha 501 Polishes S40 With Fastlane View For Recent Apps, Contacts Nokia has given its S40-based range of touchscreen Asha smartphones another push to try to keep up with the low end reach of Google's Android platform today.... read more John Biggs How Not To Look Stupid On Twitter When the AP Twitter stream was hacked a few weeks ago leading to a massive drop in the equities market, I went off. I found the fact that the AP - a news... read more Jordan Crook OUYA Closes $15 Million In Funding Led By Kleiner Perkins, Boasts 12,000 Game Developer Sign-Ups read more Chris Velazco AT&T's Year-Old Nokia Lumia 900 Finally Gets A Taste Of Windows Phone 7.8 AT&T customers who took the plunge on Nokia's Lumia 900 have had to sit idly by and watch Windows Phone 8 supercede the software loaded on their own... read more Anthony Ha Running With Friends, Zynga's Entry In The Endless Runner Genre, Launches Globally If you're a fan of endless runner games like Temple Run, starting today you'll get your chance to do more than outrun a pack of demonic monkeys — you can take... read more Read more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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