Watching CEOs and Silicon Manufacturers

Douglas Engelbart lead the way on creating the mouse. Today, companies are pursing touch interfaces and wearable computing – especially watches.

We also talk about Yahoo’s purchase of BigNoggin and their overall strategy, Apple’s move from Samsung to TSMC for making their chips, MIT’s optical transistor research, Zynga’s new boss and the first solar-power transcontinental flight.

• Yahoo bets big on fantasy sports, acquires one-man startup Bignoggins
• Marissa Mayer has been on a shopping spree at Yahoo, but is there any sign of a strategy?
• Best Buy apparently set to sell Pebble smart watch beginning this weekend
• Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is now working on a smart watch
• The stock market likes the new Zynga CEO, but it’s wrong. Here is why
• Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out
• Google Flights
• Samsung bought Boxee
• Apple Turning to TSMC for chip production
• Douglas C. Engelbart Dies
• MIT develops an Optical transistor
• Solar Plane completes transcontinental flight

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