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May 06, 2014 | | Advertisement
 Good morning! Another nice day is expected in the New York area. It's almost boring how great the weather will be. Anyway, here's the news: - Alibaba's IPO filing should come tonight, says Kara Swisher.
- For anyone following the Apple-Samsung battle, this Vanity Fair story is a must read. It gives a detailed, unflattering historical look at Samsung's illegal tactics through the years.
- PayPal president David Marcus wrote a blog post slamming Rakesh "Rocky" Agarwal, the former PayPal director of strategy who has been having a meltdown on Twitter. "Now...if you're a close friend of Rocky's and you're out there, I'd strongly suggest getting to him sooner rather than later, as his behavior is extremely worrisome."
- Apple's new retail boss Angela Ahrendts is getting 113,334 shares of stock that vest over the next four years. At yesterday's closing price, those shares are worth $68 million.
- Speaking of Apple retail... Apple will reportedly roll out a new iPhone upgrade promotional event this week to boost iPhone sales. Starting May 8, Apple will email people due for upgrades.
- One last Apple related item: Fred Wilson believes that by 2020 Apple will not be a top 3 technology company because of its failure to understand the cloud, and internet services.
- Microsoft is holding an event at the end of May to announce what appears to be a smaller version of the Surface tablet.
- The simple argument for why Bitcoin will develop into something big: A lot of really smart people are working on it, and investing in it.
- The NYT claims in a trend piece that board games are still surprisingly popular despite the proliferation of technology in the world.
- Facebook is charging advertisers $1 million per day to run video ads, and it's making them submit their work for approval.
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