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Hike, India's Mobile Messaging Upstart, Expands Language Support & Adds Offline Messaging, Stickers & More To Fuel Growth

There's no room at the digital inn for more mobile messaging apps, but that's not stopping them crowding in.

Google Launches New AdSense Scorecard To Help Publishers Better Understand Their Sites' Performance

Google launched a new scorecard in AdSense today that allows site owners to see how their properties are performing relative to other AdSense publishers.

Vdio, The TV & Movie Streaming Service From Rdio, Launches To Public

Vdio, the video streaming service which launched into public beta this April as a complement to Rdio's subscription music service, is today becoming available to all. Earlier, the service was available for preview in the U.S.

and U.K.

AnyPresence Launches A Meta-API Platform To Help Companies Build Developer Communities

AnyPresence, a mobile backend-as-a-service, is launching a platform that tailors front-end branding and functionality with a backend server that the company calls a meta API.

BitTorrent Taps Public Enemy For Their Latest Creative Venture: Crowdsourced Music

BitTorrent, the content distribution network that has been angling for a position as the platform of choice for the creative industries, is today taking one more step to show artists how they can use the service to engage with their fans and potentially spin some business in the pro

Facebook Redesigns Page Insights To Give Businesses Clearer, More Actionable Data

Facebook is announcing some changes to Page Insights, the analytics tool for monitoring the performance of your Facebook Pages. Product Marketing Manager Galyn Burke told me that this is the first time the Page Insights interface has been updated since October 2011.

Surprise! You Still Get Six More Days To Apply To Disrupt SF Battlefield

Procrastination is a bitch. We get it.

That’s why the new deadline to apply to TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield San Francisco, our preeminent startup competition, is this coming Monday, June 24.

Microsoft Launches Security Bounty Program, Will Pay Up To $100K For Exploits

Microsoft has long resisted this move, but starting June 26 — the date the Windows 8,1 preview will ship — it will finally launch its own security bounty program.

The Case For And Against Candy Crush-Maker King's Possible IPO

Zynga cast a long shadow when its stock tanked by about 75 percent in the first year after going public.

But that apparently isn’t scaring off other contenders in the gaming industry from an IPO.

Lytro Enables Its Camera's Hidden WiFi Chip, Launches A Companion iOS App (With Animated GIFs!)

It sure doesn't seem like many people have bought Lytro's crazy light-field camera (the one that lets you focus your photos after you take them) but if you're one of those who did: go plug it in.