10 Things In Tech You Need To Know Today
Oct 2, 2014, 16:03 IST
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- Rovio, the parent company of Angry Birds is cutting 130 people, or 16% of its workforce. Yet another sign that mobile gaming is a tough business.
- Here's what the activist investors that have taken a stake in Yahoo really want: They will spin out the core Yahoo business, and keep Yahoo as a company that just owns shares of Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
- Cloud storage company Box has pushed back its plans to IPO until 2015. It filed for its IPO in March of this year.
- Google donated $600,000 to San Francisco to buy and install equipment to provide free WiFi in 30 public parks, plazas and recreation areas, says the AP.
- Here is the App 100, our list of the 100 greatest apps in the world.
- Elon Musk hinted that he's going to unveil a new car, the Tesla D on October 9.
- Perry Chen, founder of Kickstarter, has a new company called "Dollar a Day" that takes the daily deals model and applies to charity. You donate $30 per month to one charity picked by Dollar a Day. As it scales, it gives more and more money, but still only costs you $365 per year.
- Apple's part-time designer Marc Newson designed this beer keg for Heineken.
- Paul Graham, founder of startup school Y Combinator, gave a lecture on "the things to remember if you want to prepare yourself to start a startup."
- Apple might turn on Apple Pay, its mobile payment system on October 20.