10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning

Good morning!

Here's some tech news. Happy holidays.

1. Tech investor Tim Draper would like to turn California into six different states, including a whole separate state for Silicon Valley. Here's his proposal.
2. Foursquare raised a $35 million Series D round from all new investors.
3. The SEC is charging a Microsoft senior manager and his friend with insider trading.
4. The Wall Street Journal will launch its answer to AllThingsD next month. It will be called WSJD.
5. Michael Bloomberg just signed a 99-year lease to transfer 12 acres of land on Roosevelt Island to the new Cornell Tech school.
6. There's an incredibly clever way thieves stole 40 million credit cards from 2,000 Target stores.
7. Apple has filed a patent that hints at a new "layered map" app. The different interactive layers could be a weather map, a traffic app and more.
8. TechStars founder David Cohen is raising a $150 million fund.
9. WhatsApp now has 400 million active users, up from 300 million in August. That's much larger than Twitter.
10. 10 million guests have booked stays on Airbnb since its launch and there are now 550,000 properties listed all over the world.