10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
Feb 13, 2014, 17:39 IST
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- Comcast is going to buy Time Warner Cable in an all-stock deal that values Time Warner at $159 per share, or ~ $45 billion.
- Here's why the Comcast-Time Warner deal could get approved by regulators.
- Sonny Dickson, a blogger who was able to get early images of the iPhone 5C, now has images of a device he says could be the iPhone 6. The phone looks thinner than the iPhone 5C with a larger screen.
- More rumors have leaked about Apple's next devices. Reports are piling up that Apple is making not one but two large-screen phones, and that the iPhone 6 will be lighter than the 5S despite being a bigger device.
- Apple is also said to be launching its new Apple TV in April, which it's aiming to sell by Christmas.
- The president of PayPal sent a brutal email to his staff asking them why they "refused to install the PayPal app (!!?!?!!)"
- Wine entrepreneur and marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk is going to invest in more startups with a new $25 million seed fund.
- Olympic athletes, particularly gold medalist snowboard Jamie Anderson, really likes to use dating app Tinder.
- Dropbox has poached Google executive Dennis Woodside, who will become the file storage company's first-ever COO. His role at Google will be filled by Nikesh Arora and Jonathan Rosenberg. "Dennis and the team have reinvented Motorola, with wonderful products like Moto X and Moto G," Larry Page said of Woodside, wishing him the best at Dropbox.
- Facebook is testing out 30-person ferries to shuttle employees from Redwood City to San Francisco. The ferries will have snacks, coffee and WiFi.