The departure of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was neither “planned nor as smooth as portrayed.” How befitting of the company. [AllThingsD]
Amazon (AMZN) Web Services went down for an hour Sunday and crippled Vine, Instagram and AirBnB. [GigaOM]
This unauthorized biography of Yahoo! CEO Marissa mayer sheds more light on the Tumblr purchase. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg left David Karp a voicemail that almost curtailed the deal. [Business Insider]
Netflix wants to remind you again that its ratings are irrelevant, dammit. [LA Times]
Of course Google (GOOGL) is designing “self-driving robo taxis” because not even Uber is safe from the search giant’s impending world takeover. [CNet]