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- Microsoft will announce its most important product in years, Office for iPad, today. This is the future of the company. Now that Windows is no longer a monopoly, Microsoft must return to its roots of selling software on different platforms.
- King, the company that makes Candy Crush, had an awful start to its life as a publicly traded company. The stock was down 15%, making it the worst performing IPO of the year.
- Time Magazine got the insider story on Facebook buying Oculus. One quote that jumps out from Oculus' CEO: "I think Facebook got an incredibly good deal ... If we stayed independent, we could probably have made a lot more."
- This is a long, but lovely story from Forbes about trying to find the person who created Bitcoin.
- Also at Forbes is the "Midas List" of the best performing VCs in the world in the past 12 months. Like any lists it has it flaws, but overall, it's a good look at big names in venture investing.
- Twitter is planning something new with Music. The WSJ isn't totally clear about what Twitter is planning, other than that it's going to work with Beats, the subscription music service.
- Here's the real reason Warren Buffett doesn't invest in technology. It's not that he doesn't understand it, it's that he thinks it's far too volatile.
- Amazon slashed prices once again on its AWS could storage service. This comes after Google cut prices.
- Tesla landed a deal with Ohio that allows it to keep stores open in the state, but it can't open any more new stores.
- Klout, the startup that measures your influence has officially been acquired for $200 million.
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