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Top Stories of the Day // August 6, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 6, 2013

While We're Trying To Follow His Game Of Checkers, Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess

A few years ago, I just didn't get it. I couldn't for the life of me understand how a company like Amazon could operate, let alone flourish. I spent the... read more

Amazon Launches Art Store, Putting Multi-Million Dollar Paintings In Your Virtual Shopping Cart

Amazon has launched a new online fine art store, as an extension of its marketplace partner offerings. The store offers access to more than 40,000 works,... read more

Samsung's Smartwatch Shows Up In Trademark Filing As "Galaxy Gear"

Samsung filed a newly-discovered trademark with the USPTO dated July 29 for the Galaxy Gear, a name for "wearable digital electronic devices in the form of a... read more

Samsung Teases BBM For Android As BlackBerry Further Telegraphs Its BBM Platform Play

Samsung is using the upcoming launch of BBM for Android to promote its Galaxy devices, Samsung App Store and Messaging Hub in a new release targeting the... read more

TC Alum Drew Olanoff Talks To The Conan O'Brien Show About Google Glass

It's with a tear in my eye that I share this little snippet with you - our own Drew Olanoff, who now works at Yahoo! with most of the rest of Palo Alto, talking... read more

Snapzoom and Shuttr Allow Smartphones To Take Clear High-Resolution Macro and Long-Distance Shots

Last week I wrote about Shuttr, the tiny Bluetooth remote control for smartphones that lets users take better self-portraits and group shots. But Shuttr can be... read more

YC-Backed SimpleLegal Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning

SimpleLegal's system ingests invoices and parses each line item into its database. Natural language processing systems figure out who billed what and for how... read more

Guardius Is A New App For Finding The Add-Ons That Make Your Browser Crawl

Browser plug-ins, toolbars and add-ons have proliferated over the years. While many are useful, others seem to become trojan horses, allowing the original... read more

Unroll.me, A Startup That Battles Junk Mail And Manages Subscriptions, Says It Has 100K+ Subscribers

We've written about Unroll.me, a service that helps users manage their junk email and subscriptions, before — most recently when it was redesigned in April.... read more

Engagor Raises $2.6M To Bring Its Social Media Management Tools To The US

Engagor, a Belgian startup that offers tools for large brands to manage their presence on social media, is announcing that it has raised $2.6 million in Series... read more

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