10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
Dec 18, 2013, 17:41 IST
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Here's your daily dose of tech news:
- A bunch of important tech people, from Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, met with Obama yesterday. The meeting was called to discuss the troubled Obamacare website but all the executives wanted to discuss was NSA reform.
- Walt Mossberg is leaving the Wall Street Journal to work with Kara Swisher on an AllThingsD spin-off. For his final column, he outlined the top products in two decades of tech reviews.
- Early Foursquare employee Tristan Walker has a new startup, Bevel, that makes a high-end razor and shaving product line which reduces irritation.
- Facebook is a fundamentally broken product.
- Google Glass will let you take a photo just by winking.
- A tourist walked off an Australia pier while checking Facebook.
- HP CEO Meg Whitman's salary has been bumped from $1 to $1.5 million.
- Content personalization startup Sailthru has raised another $20 million.
- Here's a subjective list of the 20 most viral tech companies of the decade and how they fared (outlook: not so good).
- Here's how the media will report the apocalypse.