10 Things You Need To Know This Morning In Tech
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Good morning. Here's the news.
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Baidu bought 91 Wireless, one of China's top three app stores, for $1.9 billion.
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Facebook updated its user metrics, emphasizing daily active users over monthly active users. 128 million Americans use the Facebook website every day. 101 million Americans use a Facebook app every day.
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Apple bought a startup called Matcha.tv. It makes an app that provides " a comprehensive overview of everything that’s available to watch via cable TV providers (Comcast), streaming video services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime), and digital video stores (iTunes, Amazon). "
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Venture investors are less interested in China and Brazil than they used to be.
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Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon highly recommends Stanford professor Balaji S. Srinivasan's lectures on startup engineering.
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Maybe you've heard that Google is trying to bring the Internet to Africa via balloon. Wired's Steven Levy has all the details in a magazine story.
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This 15-year-old girl says she and all of her friends use Facebook, never mind what you heard from that 13-year-old boy who says he and all of his friends don't use Facebook.