The Insider News

Galen Gruman[^]

Apple sold more iPads in 2013 than it sold Macs in the previous two decades -- combined. It's sold 210 million iPads since the tablet debuted in 2010 -- proving it's no fad. But iPad sales have flattened compared to the previous quarter, and analysts are asking whether we're approaching "peak iPad" -- when the market has saturated itself such that anyone who wants or needs an iPad now has one, and future sales will come from people replacing iPads they already own.

Slate[^]:

In 2008 and 2012, President Obama campaigned on the incredibly popular idea of network neutrality—a law that would forbid phone and cable companies from changing the Internet and charging websites new tolls, and different tolls for new fast lanes and slow lanes on the internet. Yet yesterday, the New York Times reported that the man Obama appointed as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, has made a complete turnaround on network neutrality. He is now proposing rules that authorize massive discrimination by cable and phone companies, legalizing new tolls on tech companies, and pretty much putting our entire Internet economy under the control of a few politically connected, powerful phone and cable companies.

Reuters[^]:

Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to hold down salaries in Silicon Valley, just weeks before a high profile trial had been scheduled to begin.

Re/code[^]:

Vic Gundotra, who aggressively led Google into the social world with the creation of Google+, is leaving the company.

Ars Technica[^]:

IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.

BGR[^]:

Broadband Internet service is still painfully expensive in the United States and to make matters worse, a new study shows that most American households aren’t getting the fast data speeds they are paying for.