#toptechnews

Purpose

A company that profits as it pampers workers: http://wapo.st/12kgesX {The Washington Post}

Off Grid Electric Raises $16M To Let Africans Pre-Pay For Solar Energy Just Like Phones: http://tcrn.ch/12kk3hS {TechCrunch}

Techstars helps startups get a little more corporate: http://for.tn/1D56nIc

Skycatch Makes History with Exemption from FAA: http://bit.ly/12MYWod

Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics: http://wrd.cm/1wD5aVK {WIRED}

Cisco Adds Big Data to Its ’Internet of Everything’ Push: http://bloom.bg/12zLF2B {Bloomberg}

Process

Uber, But For Dinner: http://bit.ly/12kjiFv {Fast Company}

How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business http://bit.ly/1w75t93

Amazon's big changes: bike messengers and price bidding: http://cnb.cx/1uhsLnn {CNBC}

Revenue Multiples And Growth: http://bit.ly/12RoIHZ {AVC}

How to run a corporation like a start-up: http://for.tn/1zJxOnd {Forbes}

People

Nigerian Billionaire Tony Elumelu Commits $100 Million To Create 10,000 African Entrepreneurs In 10 Years: http://onforb.es/1uhgFe2

Blood billionaire talks about Theranos' growth: http://for.tn/1uhjkV4 {Forbes}

HBO CTO resigns as company outsources its streaming technology: http://bit.ly/1z7F6A0 {The Verge}

Apple's first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez: http://tek.io/1z7VFM8 {TechRepublic}

Yammer Founder David Sacks Joins Cloud HR Startup Zenefits As COO: http://tcrn.ch/1z80cOB {TechCrunch}

Are All Payments Becoming Invisible? A Conversation With Square's Jack Dorsey http://nyti.ms/12zMhW7 {NYTimes}

Product

IBM Watson Analytics: http://ibm.co/1AEiszo {IBM}

Direct Indexing: The Next Step in Index Investing: http://bit.ly/1z82aOW {Wealthfront}

Hinge Has A Mission: Turn Tinder Into The Myspace Of Online Dating: http://bzfd.it/1wCZnzm {BuzzFeed}

Instagram hits 300M monthly active users, plans verified profiles: http://bit.ly/12RoIaV {GigaOm}

Platform

A startup wants to build a trading platform for sensor data: http://bit.ly/1AE9zFU {GigaOm}

Mesosphere Announces First Data Center OS And $36M In Funding: http://tcrn.ch/1vwCtTr {TechCrunch}

Telegram Claims 50M Monthly Active Users, Seems To Be Attracting Teams: http://tcrn.ch/12kh2xT {TechCrunch}

Doximity -- the 'LinkedIn for doctors' -- has signed up more than half of U.S. physicians: http://bit.ly/1uhqHvS {VentureBeat}

Postmates Is Launching An API To Let Third-Party Sellers Offer Local Delivery: http://tcrn.ch/12MzQ8Z {TechCrunch}

Bitcoin slump belied by Circle’s hire of JP Morgan alum: http://bit.ly/1wD2aIW

Venture Capital

Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures Is A Fund For Investing In ‘World-Positive’ Startups: http://tcrn.ch/1vwBoe8 {TechCrunch}

SoundCloud’s Valuation Could Top $1.2 Billion With New Fundraising: http://on.wsj.com/12MA0x6 {WSJ}

Meet Uber's hedge-fund-like, Bermuda-based insurer: http://for.tn/1wD0wqR {Forbes}

China’s Baidu Set To Partner With Uber And Reportedly Invest Up To $600M: http://tcrn.ch/1zJtJPT {TechCrunch}

Fast Growing DigitalOcean Receives $50 Million to Expand in Every Direction: http://bit.ly/1zJuAjr {Business Wire}

Miscellaneous 

American Airlines investing $2 billion in renovations: http://bit.ly/12kkyIC {Circa News}

28 Months on Mars: http://nyti.ms/1uhmyYM {NYTimes}

Incredible Wingsuit High-Five Video: http://read.bi/12Myo6K {Business Insider}

Calculated Risk: One of the most insane ski lines EVER: http://bit.ly/12MyV8J {Unofficial Networks}

Purpose

Spotify: Friend or Foe? http://nyr.kr/1FGhfZl

Become a Lyft Driver on Your Way to Work - Introducing Driver Destination: http://lft.to/1y4zB1N {Lyft Blog}

Autodesk Software Now Free For Schools And Students Everywhere: http://tcrn.ch/1y4Rnlw {TechCrunch}

An Inside Look at a Flat Organization That Serves Millions: http://bit.ly/1vivC4T

Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation: http://wrd.cm/1CD3EWc {WIRED}

Zenefits Faces Shutdown In Utah For Giving Its Cloud-Based HR Software Away For Free: http://tcrn.ch/1pU8XLa {TechCrunch}

Process

Hampton Creek's data scientists team up with chefs to find the holy grail of plant proteins: http://bit.ly/1vwtxSK {VentureBeat}

Are Low Interest Rates Responsible For High Stock....: http://bit.ly/1vwu6Mg {The Fat Pitch on Tumblr}

The Enemy of My Enemy: http://nyti.ms/1FGfyuE {NYTimes}

Jeff Bezos On Profits: http://read.bi/1vinbXg {Business Insider}

{UCV} This Startup Will Give You a Loan -- But There's a Twist: http://entm.ag/1viuDBG

How To Hire When Everyone Wants To Found Their Own Startup: http://tcrn.ch/1viwZR6 {TechCrunch}

People

Mean People Fail: http://bit.ly/1vwuhqK

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Has Chosen an Heir Apparent: http://on.recode.net/1vioMMK {Re/code}

10 best Steve Jobs emails - Dec. 1, 2014: http://cnnmon.ie/1vitRo8

Cornell Tech lands David Tisch in star role: http://bit.ly/1pU9cWP {Crain's New York Business}

Google CEO Larry Page on why dominant tech companies falter and more: http://for.tn/1tRzkxK {Forbes}

Product

Apple's virtual reality ambitions tipped in new job listing: http://bit.ly/1y4zW4K {The Verge}

Wire wants to be Skype for the modern age, launches with the backing of Skype cofounder Janus Friis: http://bit.ly/1pUfPJ {VentureBeat}

Platform

The Marketer’s Guide to the Benefits of Vimeo Over YouTube: http://tnw.co/1y4BgVj {TheNextWeb}

Interview With Steve Cheney On Estimote And The Power Of Local Commerce: http://onforb.es/1y4HkNj {Forbes}

Coinbase allows USD deposits to enable instant bitcoin purchases: http://bit.ly/1viqT3c {PandoDaily}

Line Pay, The Messaging App’s Mobile Payments Service, Makes Its Global Debut: http://tcrn.ch/12A58AS {TechCrunch}

Venture Capital

Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank clients: http://for.tn/1y4QTfg

Lending Club Seeks Up to $692 Million in I.P.O.: http://nyti.ms/1virMbW {NYTimes}

Two charts that show why Uber’s valuation isn’t ridiculous: http://bit.ly/1tRoc42 {GigaOm}

Uber vs. the Fortune 500: How its valuation stacks up: http://for.tn/1tRox6L {Forbes}

Investors Bet Big on Harry’s, the Warby Parker of Shaving: http://nyti.ms/1tRp3BN {NYTimes}

Miscellaneous 

Black Friday Was Amazon's Busiest Day Ever: http://read.bi/1y4HmF8 {Business Insider}

UK announces a 'Google tax' to stop companies diverting profits overseas: http://bit.ly/1pUgvO2 {The Verge}

Take A Tour Of The World's Best Hope To Survive After A Climate-Change Apocalypse: http://bit.ly/1viw82M

IBM 2014 Black Friday Benchmark Report - United States: http://ibm.co/1visNk4

Sprint promises to cut Verizon and AT&T bills in half if customers switch: http://bit.ly/1vipLfI {The Verge}

Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brain’s Gray Matter In 8 Weeks: http://bit.ly/1y4SLES

Purpose

Why Mark Cuban opposes net neutrality: ‘I want there to be fast lanes’: http://wapo.st/1vb8JhW {The Washington Post}

Drone Flights Face FAA Hit: http://on.wsj.com/15nv2sH {WSJ}

The Meaning Of Brand Names: http://bit.ly/1vP370v

Japan to build underwater cities in 15 years: http://bit.ly/1uIZ3HT {Digital Journal}

Black Friday Fund: http://bit.ly/11BdoiS {Everlane}

Under Pressure From Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices are Plummeting: http://nyti.ms/1AZtKkC {NYTimes}

Process

Here is Duolingo’s Playbook for Creating Community-Generated Content for over 50 Million Learners: http://bit.ly/1C13kAp

Elon Musk Testing ‘X-Wing’ Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones For Landing: http://tcrn.ch/1y87iTz {TechCrunch}

Twitter Offers Discounts Via Tweets: http://read.bi/1vOOaLP {Business Insider}

Best Buy Adopts an Omnichannel Strategy, Mixing Stores and Online Sales: http://bit.ly/1uIVSjm {MIT Technology Review}

Tesla Factory Retooling Completed Ahead Of Planned Production Boost: http://bit.ly/1uIZAcT

Five ways to build a $100 million business: http://bit.ly/1uJ12fm

People

SAP CEO Bill McDermott Prepares Five-Year Plan to Fight Back: http://on.recode.net/1y83zWi {Re/code}

Baidu’s Andrew Ng on Deep Learning and Innovation in Silicon Valley: http://on.wsj.com/1y86IW8 {WSJ}

Zuckerberg's 3, 5 And 10 Year Facebook Plan: http://read.bi/1AZpHVm {Business Insider}

Product

Dyson Invests $2.35B In R&D, Aims To Launch 100 New Products Over The Next Four Years: http://tcrn.ch/1y81dH0 {TechCrunch}

Fury as China's LandWind unveils £14k copy of Range Rover Evoque: http://dailym.ai/1vOP0bu {Daily Mail Online}

Dunkin' Donuts' mobile payment and gifting app surpasses 10 million downloads: http://bit.ly/1vbosxG {QSRWeb}

Dropbox's Carousel Will Manage Space on your Phone: http://tnw.co/1vOODxs {TheNextWeb}

Introducing Charted — Data Lab: http://bit.ly/1uIWt4K {Medium}

GoPro Developing Line of Consumer Drones: http://on.wsj.com/1uIYfTu

Platform

Google: The Information-First Conglomerate: http://bit.ly/1C12pjm

Tesla says in talks with BMW over car batteries, parts: http://cnb.cx/1xt60ir {CNBC}

Jet Offering Stock To Get People To Refer Friends: http://read.bi/1vcqVbh {Business Insider}

Tencent signs online distribution deal with HBO: http://bit.ly/1uIWhlW {Circa News}

Tumblr Overtakes Instagram As Fastest-Growing Social Platform, Snapchat Is The Fastest-Growing App: http://tcrn.ch/1uIWUvR {TechCrunch}

Venture Capital

Artificial Intelligence Company Sentient Emerges From Stealth: http://on.wsj.com/1y839zg {WSJ}

Year-Old Messaging App Yik Yak Draws Big Valuation: http://on.wsj.com/1y84m9x {WSJ}

At $40 Billion, Uber Would Eclipse Twitter and Hertz: http://bloom.bg/1vOOk5Y {Bloomberg}

Tiger Global Raises $2.5 Billion For New Deals: http://tcrn.ch/1vRUL8r {TechCrunch}

Miscellaneous 

A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWS: http://bit.ly/1C14onP

The 25 Best Inventions of 2014: http://ti.me/1uIXg5G {TIME}

Goldman Flirts With Rare Milestone: A Trillion-Dollar Year for Deals: http://on.wsj.com/1uIWbL9

Apple reaches $700 billion valuation for first time: http://bit.ly/1vbZluI {Circa News}

The most valuable retail building in the world: http://cnb.cx/1uIWjuh {CNBC}

A Sign of Health for Stocks: Cautious 2015 Forecasts: http://on.wsj.com/1y85eLj {WSJ}

Billionaires: http://bloom.bg/1vb8R0Z {Bloomberg}

Purpose

Meanwhile in news that is not about Uber…the NSA spying bill stalls in Senate vote: http://usat.ly/1t5P8wy

Netflix is shutting down its public API today: http://bit.ly/1sZFjPD {GigaOm}

Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple: http://nyti.ms/1t3oljw {NYTimes}

Augur: a Decentralized, Open-Source Platform for Prediction Markets: http://bit.ly/1BKeKZ2

Airware’s Drone Operating System Gets Strategic Investment, Tech, Clients From GE: http://tcrn.ch/1uvAxxp {TechCrunch}

Fidelity Makes a Virtual City of Stocks: http://nyti.ms/1xpyn4C {NYTimes}

Starbucks Rollout Could Mark Turning Point in Wireless Charging Battle: http://on.recode.net/1xpzKAi {Re/code}

Process

Why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are so successful, in one word: http://bit.ly/1EMWIBR {Quartz}

Our recipe for sparking hundreds of big ideas in 24 hours: http://bit.ly/1EN7OGR {Opower}

India’s credit card rules just took the ease out of Uber: http://bit.ly/1t3svrG {Quartz}

The Trouble With the Genetically Modified Future: http://bv.ms/1t3upIM {Bloomberg View}

Coinbase launches a “Tips Button,” looks to drive mainstream adoption and engagement to bitcoin: http://bit.ly/1BKebi3 {PandoDaily}

Google Tech Describes Photos Using Natural Language: http://tnw.co/1xpBtWi {TheNextWeb}

How Jawbone thinks about and creates products: http://bit.ly/1uSuT9U

People

Warren Buffett's 9 rules for running a business: http://cnb.cx/1EMWudS {CNBC}

GE marketing chief to take over a $3 billion business: http://for.tn/1t3oJys {Forbes}

Google CEO Larry Page: Find a 'zero million dollar' research problem: http://for.tn/1t3IqWO

Uber CEO calls journalism comments "terrible," but isn't firing the guy responsible: http://bit.ly/1BKv8ZA {Vox}

Product

Snapchat to Let You Send Money to Friends, Thanks to Square: http://on.recode.net/1oYaxeK {Re/code}

Warby Parker Adds Storefronts to Its Sales Strategy: http://on.wsj.com/1ET8ivk {WSJ}

Cisco Project Squared: A Slack Clone With Videoconferencing: http://read.bi/1BKdSng {Business Insider}

WatchKit - Apple Developer: http://bit.ly/1BKjGgw

By 2020, 90% of World’s Population Aged over 6 Will Have a Mobile Phone: http://tnw.co/1xpAnde

Platform

What Google Knows About You: http://read.bi/1uAH2Ad {Business Insider}

EBay pushes PayPal in its new scheme to bridge digital and retail shopping: http://bit.ly/1EMXdvN {VentureBeat}

5 Numbers That Illustrate the Mind-Bending Size of Amazon's Cloud: http://bit.ly/1EMXleE {Bloomberg}

The Cable Model and The Internet Model: http://bit.ly/1sZFGtJ {AVC}

The Plan to Turn NYC's Old Payphones Into Free Gigabit Wi-Fi Hot Spots: http://bit.ly/1wPuORr {Gizmodo}

The Startup Businesses Built Around the Airbnb Ecosystem: http://bit.ly/1BKdPrC {Skift}

Estimote unveils new software as it looks to pull ahead of beacon competitors: http://wapo.st/1qBQJPf {Washington Post}

Venture Capital

Teespring raises $35M: http://read.bi/1BKdXHP

Vamo Algorithmically Books You The Cheapest Multi-Stop Vacation: http://tcrn.ch/1BKfRYN {TechCrunch}

Cue Gets $7.5 Million to Build $199 Home Flu-Testing Device: http://on.wsj.com/1BKjdLj {WSJ}

Miscellaneous 

Cloud Computing Index: http://bit.ly/1BKwmUO {Bessemer Venture Partners}

How Tesla got Nevada to give it $1.4B in exchange for a giant battery factory: http://bit.ly/1t3vfp2 {VentureBeat}

What kills us, in one chart: http://bit.ly/1t2KpL4 {Vox}

What Google Knows About You: http://read.bi/1uAH2Ad {Business Insider}

Rooftop solar electricity on pace to beat coal, oil: http://bit.ly/1xpu1ut {Computerworld}

New Geologic Map Shows the Beauty of the Asteroid Vesta: http://wrd.cm/1xpuyMN {WIRED}

Purpose

Evernote joins with Nikkei for new content & business alliance: http://bit.ly/1tTZMJj

$2 Billion and Counting: http://bit.ly/1szwEo1 {Spotify Blog} 

Obama endorses Net Neutrality, asks FCC to turn the Internet into a public utility: http://bit.ly/1xuGg8M {VentureBeat}

AT&T halts gigabit broadband expansion on net neutrality concerns: http://bit.ly/1oNs8Wu {Circa News}

Google mobile ad chief to app makers: Stop concentrating so much on installs: http://bit.ly/1tOvqEM {VentureBeat}

The First Law Of Internet Physics: http://bit.ly/1tOwto2 {AVC}

Process

Uber’s Next Billion-Dollar Financing Could Be A Convertible Debt Round: http://tcrn.ch/1xpOxuI {TechCrunch}

Baidu’s CFO on the future of search: http://for.tn/1szvN6z

The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company: http://bit.ly/1xuKVrj

Need a Loan? Let's Look at Your LinkedIn Profile First. http://entm.ag/1zRMrpR

Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program: http://on.wsj.com/1v9f5l2 {WSJ}

Introducing data center fabric, the next-generation Facebook data center network (already allowing Facebook to increase its intra-building network capacity ten-fold with 50x improvement possible): http://bit.ly/1sO7MsH {FB Engineering Blog}

People

Uber Hires Google’s Same-Day Delivery Boss Tom Fallows: http://on.recode.net/13WjZpM {Re/code}

NY Attorney General Comes Out Against Rules That Would Limit Uber And Lyft: http://bzfd.it/1szDIRy

CEO Tony Fadell on How Google Bought Nest (Nov. 10, 2014): http://bit.ly/1u5I7yu {Charlie Rose}

Businesspeople of the Year: http://for.tn/1u5THtn {Fortune}

The man behind Nike's drive to marry style with tech: http://for.tn/1wXEexT

One Management Concept http://bit.ly/1tOIdXA

Product

Google's Project Ara team is testing a module that can track your blood oxygen level: http://bit.ly/1xpOIWH {VentureBeat}

3D Robotics is building the drones that just about anyone can fly: http://engt.co/1szELkh

Dollar Shave Club Takes to TV in a Big Way: http://bit.ly/1tTZqlT {Advertising Age}

Mayonnaise wars: Unilever files suit against startup Hampton Creek: http://for.tn/1szD46D

Platform

Alibaba Now Bigger Than P&G, GE and Wells Fargo: http://on.wsj.com/1oNs2hN {WSJ}

Amazon teases code testing and repository services in its big public cloud: http://bit.ly/1oNsoVs {VentureBeat}

Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS http://tcrn.ch/1v9ffZR {TechCrunch}

HomeAway Integrates Gogobot, Uber and Instacart Into Mobile Services: http://bit.ly/1u5L1TU {Skift}

A disruptor shakes up angel investing: http://for.tn/1u5Tt5q

Men Are Now Pinterest’s Fastest-Growing Demographic: http://tcrn.ch/1tOqS13 {TechCrunch}

Wildcard Raises $10 Million, Launches A Browser Built For The Mobile Web http://tcrn.ch/1tOrNi7 {TechCrunch}

Uber's Revenue: http://read.bi/1v9hXP3 {Business Insider}

Venture Capital

Xiaomi lines up $1.5B in fresh capital: http://cnb.cx/1AMXlyt

New Uber Funding Round Could Value the Company at $25 Billion: http://on.recode.net/1AMZmec {Re/code}

Hortonworks Files to Sell Shares in IPO of Hadoop Company: http://bit.ly/1szEQEw {Bloomberg}

Ideas we'd like to fund: http://bit.ly/1xuIkh7 {Rock Health}

Alibaba Looks to Raise Up to $8 Billion in Bond Sale:  http://on.recode.net/1tOrXG4 {Re/code}

Miscellaneous 

Google Lifts the Turing Award Into Nobel Territory: http://nyti.ms/1wyXnSS {NYTimes}

Apple finally makes it easy to disable iMessage: http://bit.ly/1xuG2P0 {Wired UK}

Google Takes Over Operations Of Moffett Airfield From NASA, Will Invest $200M Into The Site: http://tcrn.ch/1xuM9Tp {TechCrunch}

Landing on a Comet, 317 Million Miles From Home: http://nyti.ms/1oNseO5 {NYTimes}

Purpose

Big Moose Is Watching You: http://bit.ly/10KJmJF {Medium}

Jonathan Rothberg’s New Startup Raises $100 Million for Chip-based Ultrasound: http://bit.ly/1tT8j0n {MIT Technology Review}

The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups: http://bit.ly/1tJjMzW

Process

Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth: http://nyti.ms/1wVOfLJ {NYTimes}

Meet The Man Who Solved The Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle: http://bit.ly/1DNlb9G {FastCo}

Atypical Startup Career Advice Learned from 4 Billion-Dollar Exits: http://bit.ly/1tTrwz9 {Medium}

Why Silicon Valley Works: http://bit.ly/10kHmqL {Sam Altman}

Steve Jobs On Why Innovation Dies At Tech Monopolies: http://read.bi/1DWzzwh

What fuels great design (and why most startups don’t do it): http://bit.ly/1DWIZIi

The 7 Factors to Consider When Pricing Your Startup's Product: http://bit.ly/1GuabSy

People

Late to the party, Amazon finally publishes its diversity numbers: http://bit.ly/1wVNlyI {GigaOm}

Harvard Business Review crunches numbers, names Amazon's Bezos 'Best-Performing CEO': http://bit.ly/1DWDPMl {GeekWire}

Thiel: Airbnb is worth more than Uber; I don't think we have a tech bubble: http://cnb.cx/1tJhNf2

Uber C.E.O. Travis Kalanick’s Warpath: http://vnty.fr/1E6zndW {Vanity Fair}

Exclusive: Sean Rad Out As Tinder CEO. Inside The Crazy Saga: http://onforb.es/1GudmtG {Forbes}

Product

Apple Retail SVP Angela Ahrendts: Apple Watch launching in “Spring,” after Chinese New Year: http://bit.ly/1tT8ucd {9to5Mac}

Verizon and AT&T aim to support HD Voice calls between networks in 2015: http://bit.ly/1x83OOL {The Verge}

Apple's Next iPhone Rumored To Have Glasses-Free 3D Display: http://read.bi/1Gu8pB9 {Business Insider}

Platform

Google’s Copresence Looks Like A Cross-Platform AirDrop: http://tcrn.ch/1wVM9eK {TechCrunch}

Apple Partners With Southwest To Off Free In-Flight Streaming Via Beats Music: http://tcrn.ch/1tTrcAm {TechCrunch}

Dropbox's biggest competitor? It's not Box: http://for.tn/1x80eEl {Forbes}

Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage: http://tcrn.ch/1x8aBIb {TechCrunch}

Momofuku Founder David Chang Has A Food Delivery App: http://read.bi/1tJikNW {Business Insider}

Nest announces deal with Irish utility to offer its learning thermostats for free: http://bit.ly/1GpsM25 {VentureBeat}

With A Fresh $32M In Funding, Betterment Hopes To Manage $100B By 2020: http://onforb.es/1saYlSM

Venture Capital

Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis: http://tcrn.ch/1wVPKJP {TechCrunch}

Mobile Internet exits explode 700% to $94B (here are the 9 hottest sectors): http://bit.ly/1tJiIvN {VentureBeat}

Is India's Tech Startup Ecosystem Poised to Eclipse China's?: http://bit.ly/1DWF9i6 {cbinsights}

Xiaomi Said to Seek Funds at About $50 Billion Valuation: http://bloom.bg/1x83gII {Bloomberg}

Uber looks to raise another $1bn - fastFT: Market-moving news and views, 24 hours a day: http://on.ft.com/1zBheqV {FT.com}

Miscellaneous 

Facebook First Advertising Proposal 4.18.05.doc - Dropbox http://bit.ly/1x8bikD

VRClay - Sculpting in virtual reality | Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra http://bit.ly/1ujRZrA

An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World's First Digital Weapon: http://wrd.cm/1DWI76c {WIRED}

Southwest Airlines: No Longer the Low-Cost Leader: http://buswk.co/1wVN1A2 {Businessweek}