10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Apr 16, 2014, 16:15 IST
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- Yahoo's stock went flying last night after it reported earnings. The core business of Yahoo wasn't particularly great, revenue was up 1%. But, Alibaba's revenue was up 66%, and Yahoo owns 24% of that company.
- A little after 1 PM yesterday, Twitter's stock went nuts. It was up 11.4%. We're not sure why, but Twitter hired a new head of product, and it bought a data company called Gnip yesterday.
- Amazon's smartphone is real, and BGR has photos and complete details on it. It's going to have 5 front facing cameras, with 4 of those cameras used to create a 3D effect for the screen.
- Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress, is looking to raise $100 million in new funding.
- Online invitation site Paperless Post raised $20 million in funding.
- Squarespace, the company that helps make websites for people and businesses, raised $40 million.
- Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who was in jail for releasing hundreds of thousands of iPad emails speaks.
- Here's what the Internet looked like in 1996.
- In an interview, Matias Duarte, the head of Android's design says "mobile is dead." What he means is that we shouldn't think of "mobile" as a category, but think of delivering the right experience for the right screen.
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out his plan to get Microsoft in the "Internet of Things."