10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning! Here's the news of the day:
Google made a high-profile hire for Calico, it's anti-aging/anti-death health startup. It hired Cynthia Kenyon, a high-profile biochemist and biophysicist at the University of California.
Jason Goldberg, CEO of Fab, wrote a passionate blog post about rebuilding his company. " Have you ever been clinging onto a rocket ship, then cut the engines at full speed, and then tried to fly again? That’s what we’ve been going through at Fab the past months."
Nike has reportedly fired the team working on the FuelBand and will stop making the FuelBand.
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Samsung executive Wonpyo Hong. He is responsible for apps and services. He says Samsung is spending more on Software development than hardware development now.
We did an interview with Marcus Ash, who worked on Microsoft's answer to Siri, Cortana. "We think it's going to be one of the next big things that distinguishes these platforms. How good is the assistant and the contextual learning technology on this phone?"
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