10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Aug 11, 2014, 16:09 IST
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- Viral content site BuzzFeed raised $50 million at an $850 million valuation from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. BuzzFeed is reportedly profitable, doing triple digit millions of revenue, and says sales are doubling year-over-year.
- Apple has something called Apple University where employees can take classes on how to communicate at Apple, what makes Apple Apple, and other topics.
- Microsoft struggles to generate revenue in China because people there pirate copies of its software.
- New York senator Chuck Schumer is warning people that Fitbit and other fitness monitoring wearables are privacy nightmares.
- We talked to the mastermind behind the Kim Kardashian game.
- Amazon continues its war with Hachette, emailing authors and telling them to email Hachette's CEO.
- Speaking of Amazon... it seems like it's now in a fight with Disney.
- Here's the story of how Twitch built a $1 billion site for watching people stream video games.
- Here's an anonymous story of what it's like to be a woman trying to raise venture money. (It's not good! Sexism abounds.)
- Common technology myths that you should stop believing.