10 Things You Need To Know In Tech This Morning
Jan 31, 2014, 16:58 IST
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A ton of tech news hit last night just as everyone was going home from work. Let's catch up.
- Several reports say Satya Nadella will be Microsoft's next CEO. Microsoft should formally make the announcement soon. There's also a chance Bill Gates will step down as Microsoft chairman.
- Box, a cloud storage enterprise startup, reportedly filed for an IPO. It's a secret IPO filing, which is now allowed under the Jobs Act.
- Amazon had record sales for the holiday quarter, but missed on EPS. The stock tanked in after-hours trading.
- Google also had a slight miss on earnings.
- Zynga fired 15% of its workforce.
- Yahoo bought a startup that makes a virtual assistant called Donna. But it's going to shut the app down.
- Google's first stock split will happen April 2.
- Hacker's tried to steal passwords from several Yahoo Mail accounts.
- Android powered 79% of the 1 billion smartphones shipped in 2013.
- A new update for Windows 8 will let you boot to desktop mode by default.