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these are the top stories of the week Mark Zuckerberg gives away billions of dollars Microsoft is under fire is Google spying on kids all that wood flew under the radar Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his wife Priscilla Chan have a new baby daughter named Max he also mentioned that they will establish the Chan Zuckerberg initiative which will receive 99% of Zuckerberg facebook shares that's worth about 45 billion dollars according to the announcement the initiative will focus on improving this world for the next generation in case you were wondering yes the suck broke the news on Facebook Microsoft's old boss Steve Ballmer's in the news for statements he made in the annual shareholder meeting Ballmer is the company's largest individual shareholder he said that windows phones need to run android apps instead of relying on developers to write apps for Windows Ballmer also didn't care for how microsoft reported its financial numbers microsoft reported a number known as a run rate for its cloud business a run rate is a projected number Palmer said using the run rate instead of revenue was his word not mine the Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission saying Google is collecting personal data from school children the eff says Google is using the info to target advertisements and build profiles on students google says it's using the data to improve products and services not for advertisements the company also says that data is anonymized more news to know let's go rapid fire Microsoft's personal assistant Cortana is rolling out for iOS in beta form google introduced an updated data saver mode for chrome on Android that could dramatically reduce how much data your phone sucks down blackberry is exiting Pakistan because it will not allow the government to tap its enterprise services and facebook is now letting more people stream video live right now it's limited to iOS users with Android support coming next year let's see what flew under the radar this week kyocera introduced what it's calling the first soap proof phone take a look at this video it looks like a horror movie two cell phone fans but don't worry the phone is okay it's called the dig no raw free and it can withstand being washed with hand soap and water the phone also dishes the use of a speaker and let you hear sounds you bone conduction the dig no robbery hits japan next week also i apologize if i'm pronouncing the name wrong now you're all caught up in sec to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet.com / update for a weekly dose hit up cnet com / radar amaya's actor signing off