10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Apr 22, 2014, 16:16 IST
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- Netflix reported earnings, which were good, last night, but the real story is that it's planning a price hike. It will make streaming subscriptions cost $1-$2 more per month for new customers. For existing customers, there will not be a price hike.
- Comcast put out a blistering statement that bashed Netflix. In its earnings, Netflix came out and said it was against the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Netflix and Comcast have an odd relationship.
- After an internal investigation into harassment accusations, GitHub cleared its co-founder Tom Preston-Werner of any wrong doing, but Preston-Werner is still leaving the company.
- Apple released a new video about how it's trying to take care of the environment, but the video is about more than the environment. It's narrated by CEO Tim Cook, and it feels like a defining statement for his vision for the company.
- Leonardo DiCaprio is now being floated as the potential lead actor for the Steve Jobs movie.
- Felix Salmon is leaving Reuters for a new unknown job.
- Speaking of Salmon, he wrote an excellent post on why founding a startup fresh out of school is a pretty terrible idea. At a time when you can be young and carefree, you're chaining yourself to a hard job with the hope of becoming a billionaire.
- Apple is currently interviewing people to fill two big mobile payment roles at the company - head of product, and head of business development. This is exciting because it suggests Apple really wants to do mobile payments, but also a bit of a let down since it suggests it's not ready with a product and won't be for a while.
- Fred Wilson announced that USV invested in CrowdRise, a crowdfunding site for charities that was co-founded by Edward Norton.
- Here's a roundup of everything Apple is planning for iOS 8, the next major software update.