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Vermont sues patent troll over small business shakedowns by GigaOM on 09:00 PM

Patent trolls have been bleeding legitimate businesses for years -- now a state government has turned the tables and asked a troll to pay $10,000 for each of the hundreds of threatening letters i(...)

Bystander Live-Tweets Brutal London Machete Attack by Mashable on 09:00 PM

Police shot two assailants Wednesday in a southeastern London neighborhood after they allegedly murdered a person in public with a machete. The victim is believed to be a solider from a nearby ba(...)

Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud by TechCrunch on 09:00 PM

Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobi(...)

We Want YOU To Be The New TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor by TechCrunch on 09:00 PM

One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training (...)

New Service Called Deeplink.me Will Let Mobile Users Navigate Through A “Web” Of Apps by TechCrunch on 08:45 PM

Have you ever wished that you could navigate through the apps on the phone as easy as clicking links on the web? Such a thing may now become a real possibility thanks to a new service from Cellog(...)

HTC Can't Staunch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil Prevails by TechCrunch on 08:45 PM

A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains to o(...)

Amazon Wants To Build A Bio-Dome Three Blocks From An Actual, Normal Park by TechCrunch on 08:45 PM

Amazon has reportedly submitted plans for a new futuristic headquarters in Seattle that couples a skyscraper and an accompanying tri-sphere bio-dome like structure. According to the plans, the st(...)

Sports Team's Twitter Takeover Turns Disastrous After Rape Joke by Mashable on 08:45 PM

The L.A. Kings handed its Twitter account over to a local morning show host, who ended up having to apologize for his posts Tuesday eveningKevin Ryder is co-host of L.A. radio station KROQ's Kevi(...)

Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines by TechCrunch on 08:45 PM

After previously investing into the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in (...)

Join CrunchGov's Town Hall With @CoryBooker On Immigration For #iMarch Right Now by TechCrunch on 08:45 PM

Some of the Internet’s most notable personalities are bringing attention to the need for immigration reform in a 36-hour social media marathon, The March for Innovation. It’s an issue(...)

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