10 Things In Tech You Need To Know Today

Good morning! It will be relatively cool, and partly sunny today in New York. Let's look at the news.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Cloud storage company Box has pushed back its plans to IPO until 2015. It filed for its IPO in March of this year.
4. 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.
5. Here is the App 100, our list of the 100 greatest apps in the world.
6. Elon Musk hinted that he's going to unveil a new car, the Tesla D on October 9.
7. 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.
8. Apple's part-time designer Marc Newson designed this beer keg for Heineken.
9. 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."
10. Apple might turn on Apple Pay, its mobile payment system on October 20.