10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Aug 8, 2014, 16:06 IST
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- Wired has a gigantic profile of Stewart Butterfield. Butterfield co-founded Flickr. He's currently working on Slack, which is a chat app for companies that's gaining users at a rapid clip.
- Zynga (still around!) reported worse than expected quarter and the stock crashed.
- Investor Eric Jackson continued his assault on Marissa Mayer and Yahoo, this time singling out her poor decision making around Yahoo Sports. He thinks Yahoo Sports is not getting the investment/attention it deserves.
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a long look at Silicon Valley's arrogant culture. We haven't read it yet, but it seems to be in defense of Silicon Valley, which is increasingly under attack from outsiders.
- Facebook executives have been visiting people in Hollywood about creating experiences/content specifically designed for its virtual reality headset company, Oculus.
- Meet the people who are getting technology implanted in their bodies to make them more cyborg-like.
- Barnes & Noble's Nook group (still around!) is planning some sort of announcement with Samsung at the end of this month.
- The best podcasting app for your iPhone is Downcast, according to Re/code.
- Amazon is still running into trouble as a result of its negotiations with Hachette. Over 900 authors have signed a petition urging readers to contact Jeff Bezos about Amazon's treatment of authors caught in the middle of this fight.
- This chart serves as a pretty good proxy for looking at a comparison of adoption of dial-up, broadband, and mobile internet. It basically tells the tale of our evolving usage of the web.