GeekWire Radio: Facebook + Oculus, Google Chromebook at college, and the meaning of Microsoft Office for iPad

We now have tons to speak about on the GeekWire radio present this week, beginning with Fb’s shocking acquisition of Oculus, the virtual-reality expertise firm, for a whopping $2 billion. What does Mark Zuckerberg bear in mind right here? Fb’s long-term relevance, for starters.

From there we delve into one of many extra intriguing tales of the week — a lawsuit by two of Redfin’s very early workers that has the potential, not less than, to complicate the true property firm’s extensively anticipated IPO this yr or subsequent.

Then, we go contained in the world of the Google Chromebook, and discover the development towards low-cost web-based computer systems. We discuss with College of Washington junior Nastassya West, who has been utilizing a $199 Acer C720 and vastly prefers the machine to her Home windows 7 pocket book. Additionally becoming a member of us is her dad, Brenden West, a cell app developer right here within the Seattle area.

And we conclude with a dialogue of the discharge of Workplace for iPad. We’re joined on the telephone by Matt Rosoff, a longtime business analyst and reporter who’s editorial director for the information website CiteWorld primarily based in San Francisco. We discuss concerning the apps, why they took so lengthy to get right here, and what they are saying about new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s long-term plans for the corporate.

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