10 Things You Need To Know This Morning

Good morning! Here's the overnight news:

• Google made a ton of product announcements at its big developer's conference yesterday. You can catch up on all of them here.

• These are the 19 best venture capitalists investing in enterprise tech.

• Google is joining with NASA to buy a computer "which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers." They're going to use it to study artificial intelligence.

• Google announced a new messaging app called Hangouts, and The Verge has a big feature on it.

• One third of all smartphones sold in the first quarter were on a prepaid plan.

• Soon you'll be able to send money via Gmail.

• Time Warner Cable is considering taking a stake in Hulu.

• During his keynote, Larry Page said some "kumbaya" stuff about the technology business not being about competition. John Gruber says that's a bunch of baloney.

• The co-CEOs of Groupon came to BI for a chat. They believe it can be a $100 billion company. 

• Steve Jobs wrote a letter to James Murdoch about eBooks pricing, and it's now being used as evidence in a price-fixing lawsuit. Your copy of the email is here.

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