Let's try that again: Top Stories of the Day // June 27, 2013

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	This morning's CrunchDaily was missing the top stories of the day due to a technical issue so we're resending with our apologies! Today we're introducing a new feature to CrunchDaily: CrunchGov. We're now bringing you not only top TechCrunch stories of the day but also the latest from CrunchGov Essential, a roundup of news about technology's influence on today's biggest issues. Please note: if you'd like to receive CrunchDaily without this feature go here to update your preferences. Today's Top Stories // Jun 27, 2013 Josh Constine 21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel's 20-Under-20 fellows, just raised $3.8 million for... read more John Biggs The DEA Seized Bitcoins In A Silk Road Drug Raid In the underground world of the deep web there are few places as nefarious as Silk Road. The site, hidden on the Tor network has long been one of the primary... read more Josh Constine Leaked Details Of Facebook's New Chat Rooms Feature Facebook has built a new feature codenamed Host Chat that lets people set up chat rooms their friends can join without an invitation, a source familiar with the... read more Matt Burns Need A Meme? Why Not Use Imgur's New Generator Imgur, the image host for Reddit and most of the internet, just launched its own meme creation tool. And it's about the best meme generator available.... read more Mike Butcher With $38M To Play With, NumberFour Could Become A Global Business Platform The emergence of NumberFour in Berlin - which has today announced a $38m Series A round - throws up a few interesting points worth briefly dwelling on. It may... read more Catherine Shu Digg Reader Now Available On Digg's iOS App Digg Reader, Digg's alternative for the RSS aggregation addicts who will be bereft when Google Reader finally shuts down on July 1, is now available on the... read more Mike Butcher Aiming At Small Business And Headed By Ex-Yahoo Head, NumberFour De-Cloaks In Berlin With A $38M Series A, Europe's Biggest In Two Years NumberFour, founded in 2009 by former senior Yahoo executive Marco Boerries in Berlin to re-engineer small business processes, has secured an enormous $38... read more Leena Rao With New Initiative 'Galactic,' PayPal Wants To Own Payments And Commerce In Space In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space. read more Billy Gallagher Clinkle Raises Celebrity-Filled $25M Round As It Gears Up To Eliminate The Physical Wallet Clinkle, a mobile payments startup that aims to put your entire wallet on your phone, has raised a $25 million round from over 18 investors.... read more Sarah Perez Yahoo News Gets A Makeover, But The Bigger Improvements Are Under The Hood A little over a month after Yahoo partnered with Twitter to beef up its homepage news feed with relevant tweets from news organizations, the company is today... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein CrunchGov Essential: How The Internet Helped Gay America Come Out Of The Closet The U.S. has always included a sizable population of gay citizens. Without a way to coordinate their latent collective powers, discrimination and isolation… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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