We hope you had a great weekend. Here's the latest tech news to kickstart your week:
- An Uber carrying Eventbrite CTO Renaud Visage & Kat Borlongan from the airport to Paris was allegedly attacked by cab drivers this morning. "Smashed windows, flat tires, vandalized vehicle and bleeding hands," Borlongan tweeted.
- Uber's GM of France responded to the incident: "Uber strongly condemns this morning's incident where two of our users and our driver were confronted with severe violence…That the taxis chose to use violence is unacceptable."
- 2013 may have felt like a down year for Apple, but it also was the year Apple proved it really knows what it's doing with its iPhone business.
- Apple debuted its new iPad Air ad during NFL games and the Golden Globes Sunday.
- Here's how gestural computing - where you are the interface - will change everything.
- The first life - that of a spider - was saved on Biz Stone's new app, Jelly. Mark Zuckerberg snapped a photo of a hideous looking creature. He wrote, "what kind of spider is this, and is it okay to let it keep living in my shower?" Someone replied, "I think it's a Phidippus johnsoni. Probably want to relocate it out of the house."
- Dave Morin's social networking app Path raised a $25 million round led by Indonesia's Bakrie Global Group.
- HBO is making a show that will likely shred Silicon Valley and it's being produced by the same guy who made the comedy, Office Space. "Anyone who takes themselves too seriously and is full of themselves is ripe for a kicking," says producer Mike Judge. Here's more information about the show.
- NBC Universal has invested in Ken Lerer's video startup, NowThis News. NBC will use the investment to experiment with mobile videos that spread on social media outlets without tarnishing the brand.
- An alleged life threat, a co-founder war and extreme salesmanship: How Travis Kalanick overcame a lot and finally found $3.4 billion success with Uber.