10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning

Here's a handy chart showing that HTC monthly sales have steadily declined since March 2011. Can the HTC One Max, pictured here in a leaked photo, turn sales around?

A huge chunk of the "deep Web," which requires a Tor browser to see, went down over the weekend.

WeChat, the huge Chinese social networking platform from Tencent, is finally trying to make money with mobile payments, stickers, and a game center.

South Korea is unhappy that the Obama administration over-tuned a ban on the import and sale of some older iPhones and iPads. Previously, the U.S. International Trade Commission had said the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G infringe on Samsung patents.

New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles are still going without CBS programming. CBS and Time Warner Cable are in a standoff over retransmission rights and they're not even talking at the moment.

The Times has a juicy, gossip-y, vitriolic post-mortem on the failed Newsweek-Daily Beast merger. A Monday morning must read!

Michael Lewis wrote 10,000 words on a Goldman Sachs programmer who was arrested under complicated charges of theft.

Facebook hired its first CMO. He's from Google.

Steve Kovach says Google made a better tablet than the iPad Mini.

There's a cool concept for the iPhone 6 that you should see.