Twitter engineers were stressed out when the Ellen DeGeneres tweet was going viral.
- Facebook is reportedly in talks to buy drone-maker Titan Aerospace for ~ $60 million.
- Basis, a company that makes wearable health trackers, has been acquired by Intel for a reported $100 - 150 million.
- Here's how Twitter's engineers felt when Ellen DeGeneres' record-breaking tweet started to explode.
- Sean Parker has quietly relaunched his failed video startup, Airtime. It's now called OkHello and it's a mobile-first video chat solution.
- Uber has launched a feature that shows passengers when surge pricing is over.
- A man who met Mark Zuckerberg when he was 22 shares the unsolicited advice he gave him.
- Flappy Bird clones are full-force in the App Store, making up nearly one-third of all new games (95 out of 300) in a 24 hour period.
- A source close to Sheryl Sandberg says the Facebook COO is not running for Senate. Reports suggesting other wise are "100% untrue."
- Microsoft is launching its own Siri, a virtual assistant called Cortana.
- Bill Gates is again the wealthiest man in the world with a networth of $76 billion. Larry Ellison is the next-wealthiest person in tech.