Top Stories of the Day // January 19, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Jan 19, 2015

JON RUSSELL This Is How Xiaomi Keeps The Cost Of Its Smartphones So Low Xiaomi's combination of well-spec'ed phones and low price tags drove the company to over 60 million sales last year. That progress saw it replace Samsung as... read more

ANTHONY HA Plaxo Co-Founder Minh Nguyen Charged With Murder Minh Nguyen, who co-founded the contact management and social networking startup Plaxo (along with Sean Parker), has been charged with first-degree murder,... read more

MATT BURNS Today Is The Last Day To Buy Google Glass read more

INGRID LUNDEN Apple Cuts Off Developers In Crimea Following U.S. Sanctions read more

GREG KUMPARAK Aliens, Robots, Cheetahs, Oh My! Watch These “Face Hackers” Use Projectors To Modify Their Faces In Real Time Happy Sunday! Ready to have your mind blown? By mixing ultra-bright projectors and advanced facial tracking with some damned fine visual design work, these... read more

INGRID LUNDEN Spotify (Finally) Upgrades Windows Phone App With New Look And More Android, iOS Features read more

JORDAN CROOK U.S. Hacked North Korea Before North Korea Hacked U.S. read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Dog Ears  The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include... read more

CrunchWeek: Facebook Goes Corporate, Box Prices, And Glass Skids To A Halt It’s Friday and that means CrunchWeek. This week Colleen Taylor, Kyle Russell and myself sat around the Small... read more

Author Nicholas Carlson Tells Us What Startups Can Learn From Marissa Mayer  There are few figures in the tech industry today who are more compelling than Marissa Mayer. So it’s... read more

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