10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, GOOG, ZNGA, TWX)

Good morning!

Here's the news.

• Apple design leader Jony Ive is pushing to make iOS to be simpler and cleaner.

• Samsung's chief product officer says ex-Android leader Andy Rubin was a visionary, but could be very stubborn.

• Google's Android team is also building a smart watch.

• Google chairman Eric Schmidt uses a Blackberry.

• HBO is considering packaging HBO GO with your broadband internet package. So, you subscribe to cable internet, but not cable TV and you can get HBO.

• New Blackberry phones launch in the U.S. today, we're not expecting big lines.

• A dongle joke spun out of control and now two people have lost their jobs.

• Zynga finally launched its independent platform, Zynga.com, no need for a Facebook account to use it.

• Apple is improving security in iCloud, adding two-step verification.

• Why the original iPod was was great.

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