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10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning

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Good morning! The news:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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."
  4. This is a long, but lovely story from Forbes about trying to find the person who created Bitcoin.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Amazon slashed prices once again on its AWS could storage service. This comes after Google cut prices.
  9. 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.
  10. Klout, the startup that measures your influence has officially been acquired for $200 million.
  11. Follow us on Facebook the 11th thing you need to know this morning, and the 12th thing, and the 13th thing, and so on, and so on...

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