Booting Up: Farmville Mayor Mark Pincus is ‘Pretty Bored With All Games’

Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft want Bill Gates gone as chairman. They worry he’s blocking the company

Bored AF. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Bored AF. (Photo: Wikipedia)

Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft (MSFT) want Bill Gates gone as chairman. They worry he’s blocking the company from evolving and limits the power of the new CEO to make “substantial changes.” [Reuters]

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Lines like “I found myself pressing the skip button on iTunes Radio more often than Pandora,” doesn’t bode well for Apple’s fledgling service. [Wall Street Journal]

The Washington Post is officially under Jeff Bezos’ control. [Washington Post]

Zynga (ZNGA) founder Mark Pincus is “pretty bored with all games.” At least he acknowledged playing Running with Friends?  [WSJ]

Sam Biddle shows how easy it is pretending to be a venture capitalist and gamed AngelList for fun. Hopefully this is just funding a second season of Start-ups: Silicon Valley. [Valleywag]

Booting Up: Farmville Mayor Mark Pincus is ‘Pretty Bored With All Games’