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Top Stories of the Day // July 16, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Jul 16, 2013

Rocket Internet Raises $500M From Kinnevik And Access, Plans More E-Commerce In Emerging Markets

Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based e-commerce incubator that has been behind dozens of startups around the world, is preparing to spin out a few more. The... read more

Clinkle Opens Waitlists To U.S. College Students, Teases A Bit More About What The $25M App Will Look Like

Clinkle, the much-hyped mobile payments startup that recently announced a $25 million round, announced today that it is opening its wait lists to college... read more

Built By Ex-Googlers, Viewfinder Is A Cross Between Photo Organization & Mobile Social Networking

New York and Seattle-based Viewfinder is officially debuting a mobile application which aims to serve as something between a photo organization utility and... read more

Xiaomi Earns $2.16B In First Half Of 2013, Beating Its Entire 2012 Revenue

Android handset and OS maker Xiaomi sold 7.03 million handsets in the first half of 2013, the company announced today. Over that period, the Beijing-based... read more

Baidu Agrees To Buy Chinese Android App Distributor 91 Wireless For $1.9B

Here's a sign of how valuable China's biggest alternative app stores have become.... read more

Mobile App Testing Startup Sauce Labs Raises $5M

Cloud-based app-testing service Sauce Labs closed $5 million in Series C funding today, led by Toba Capital, with angel investor Scott Banister and previous... read more

Social Analytics Startup Awe.sm Rolls Out A Dashboard Just For Marketers

Social media analytics startup Awe.sm is getting serious about making its product available to different types of clients. The company, which provides a... read more

Gesture In The Picture, As Intel Picks Up Omek But PrimeSense Dismisses Apple Acquisition Rumors

Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the... read more

Court Will Reportedly Declassify Yahoo's Fight Against PRISM

Yahoo will be allowed to prove that it fought against the National Security Agency's Internet spying program, PRISM. A secret court ruled on Monday that the... read more

About.com Makes Big Leadership Changes As It Zeroes In On Native Advertising And Social

About.com has been around since 1996, but nearly 20 years later the company is undergoing a relatively large shakeup.... read more

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