10 Things In Tech You Need To Know Today

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People wait to buy the new Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices, outside an Apple store in Hong Kong Friday morning, Sept. 19, 2014.

Good morning! We're looking at wonderful day here in New York, with a high near 70, and sunny skies. Let's start the week with some news:

1. Meet the three men who get billions of dollars from Cisco to create new businesses and new companies: Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, and Luca Cafiero. Inside the company they even have their own cool nickname: MarioPremLuca.

2. Apple is selling more iPhone 6 Pluses than expected, and customers are paying the extra $100 to get in to the mid tier, according to a small survey of customers by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. This means Apple is making even more money than expected.

3. When Apple announces iPhone 6 opening weekend sales, here's what investors will be looking for.

4. Which iPhone 6 is best? We talk about that, as well as what Yahoo should do with its money, and why Microsoft bought Minecraft in our latest podcast.

5. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba IPO'd on Friday and saw its stock pop by 38% on its first day of trading. It closed at $93.89.

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6. Here's a weird one: Hampton Creek, a startup trying to develop egg alternatives, lost a key executive after just 9 days on the job. Ali Partovi left the company 9 days after being announced as Chief Strategy Officer. He is an investor and had been advising the company, now he won't even be advising.

7. Iain Kennedy, an Amazon executive working on payments has bolted for Microsoft.

8. Speaking of Amazon, every year Jeff Bezos hosts a nice retreat for authors. The only condition of the retreat: Don't talk about the retreat. This year, thanks to the battle with Hachette some writers are talking about it.

9. Vox.com has a big story on Betaworks, and its successful reinvention of Digg.

10. China has tightened its clamps even further on Google making it harder than ever to use Google services.

11. BONUS: This video will change how you see iPhone 6 lines forever.