Apple's 1 Billion Podcasts and Other News You Need to Know

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world.

Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting storiesApple hit the 1 billion podcast subscriptions milestone. In patent news, according to Bloomberg, Google and Amazon won a case against Michael Doyle, who claimed many major Internet companies infringed on his patents. Finally, the reviews are in, and the Leap Motion controller is cool, but not all that intuitive — at least, not yet

Check out the video above for more on these stories.

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