Top Stories of the Day // January 17, 2014

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	Today's Top Stories // Jan 17, 2014 Natasha Lomas Nintendo Confirms Wii U Has Flopped, Slashes Sales Forecast By ~70% Nintendo has confirmed what we knew already: its unhappy controller/console combo, the Wii U, is a flop. The company said hardware sales of the Wii U had failed... read more Frederic Lardinois Google Unveils Smart Contact Lens That Lets Diabetics Measure Their Glucose Levels This isn't Google Glass in a contact lens, but it may just be Google's first step in this direction. The company's Google X lab just teased a smart contact lens... read more Alex Wilhelm Confirmed: Yahoo’s Editor-In-Chief Is Out Effective tomorrow, Yahoo's Editor-In-Chief Jai Singh is out at the company. A Yahoo spokesperson confirmed the news with TechCrunch following earlier media... read more Frederic Lardinois Google’s New Smart Contact Lens Is Old News For Microsoft Google today announced its smart contact lens project, but it's not the first by a long shot (or even a moon shot). Other companies have long been working on... read more John Biggs Meet The Malware That Took Down Target The inimitable Brian Krebs has found some interesting details about the massive Target credit card breach that exposed millions of pieces of customer data over... read more Alex Wilhelm Microsoft Sold 908,000 Xbox One Consoles In The US In December, Besting The PS4 read more Natasha Lomas WunderBar Is An Internet Of Things Starter Kit For App Developers European startup relayr, founded in January last year and currently based at the StartupBootcamp accelerator, has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign for a... read more TOP VIDEOS Riide Is An Electric Bike For Cool Kids 2014 may very well be the year of electric bikes. There were quite a few personal e-vehicles showing their stuff... read more Foundation: Nest's Tony Fadell on the Power of Focus As part of our annual Google Ventures CEO Summit, Nest founder and CEO Tony Fadell and I filmed a live Foundation... read more CrunchWeek: CES, CES, And CES Talk about a long week. Along with a Polar Vortex infiltration, which left much of the northeast straight up... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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