Good morning tech

NUMBER PUNCH

163,167,539.95: Dollars that the software company Innovative
Marketing raked in by getting users to pay for fake anti-virus programs,
according to USA Today. 

SCHEDULED

…9 a.m. PDT, House Judiciary Committee field hearing on NBCU-Comcast merger. Los Angeles.

TWEETED

Sunrise: -@lesliebradshaw, president of JESS3, the D.C. Web
design and social media agency, and an early riser.

FOR THE WATERCOOLER

FORM: Beatrix Potter’s fairytales are now available on Kindle — and the author might’ve liked it that way. A blogger at Me and My Kindle muses the Kindle allows Potter to “escape the book format” yet again, pointing out that when “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” was originally published in 1906, it was (says Wikipedia) published “on a strip of paper, folded into a wallet, closed with a flap, and tied with a ribbon.”