10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

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Jony Ive

AP

Good morning! The news:

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  1. One of the original iPhone software designers, Greg Christie, is leaving Apple. Apple says this had been planned all along, but Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac says there was tension between Christie and Ive, and that's why Christie is out.
  2. There's a new report out on the iWatch that says certain models will cost "several thousand" dollars. Apple will position the iWatch as a rival to, say, Rolex, according to this report. Seems far fetched, but it's from one of the more accurate analysts of 2013.
  3. Cloud storage company Dropbox rolled out two new apps yesterday. One is for sharing photos and videos, and the other is a desktop email app.
  4. It also announced that Condoleezza Rice joined its board. This is somewhat controversial because she has testified in favor of NSA spying programs in the past. Tech companies have been upset over the NSA revelations that have come out.
  5. Facebook has ripped messaging out of the Facebook app, and is forcing users to download Facebook's standalone messaging app. This seems like a strange move, and a bit of a pain for normal users.
  6. A female employee says her company was acqui-hired by Google, but she was the only person Google didn't want. (It's a more interesting read than that sounds.)
  7. The parent of blogging platform Wordpress acquired Longreads, a Twitter account that sends out the best long stuff on the web. This strikes us as a reaction to the success of Medium, a blogging platform that gets a lot of original writers and surfaces well written posts.
  8. One Kings Lane, a $912 million e-commerce startup, is losing its CEO, Doug Mack, to sports apparel company Fanatics. Probably not a good sign for One Kings Lane.
  9. Twitter's CFO made $24.6 million last year.
  10. Everyone was freaking out yesterday over Mingleton, an app that helps you talk to strangers that are in the same room as you. In theory, you shouldn't need an app to talk to people in the room.
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