Hello folks and welcome to Monday, the start of another week packed full of tech news… we hope. If you spent time away from the Internet this weekend for whatever reason, or are simply searching for an overview of the key happenings from Planet Tech, fear not because our weekend round-up is right here.
Grab a coffee and set aside 10 minutes of your day. Ready? Read on.
News from over the weekend at The Next Web:
- Handpressions: Capture, store and print your kids’ hand and footprints directly from your iPad
- Sony denies it’s in talks to sell its overseas Vaio PC business to Lenovo
- Windows 8.1 now up to 3.95% market share as it passes Vista, Windows 8 falls to 6.63%
- IE11 passes IE10 in market share, Firefox slips a bit, and Chrome gains back share
- GoDaddy changes security policy after infamous social engineering attack on @N
- Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 20% adoption on Steam
- Twitter partners with 300 Entertainment to give ‘full access’ of its user data to the music industry
- Parts of Somalia go offline after ruling militants shut mobile Internet services
- January in Latin America: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month
Good reads:
- How marketers can build thought leadership
- How to check if your app is addictive enough to make money
- How to make friends, coworkers, and team members feel good about themselves
- Strategies vs. tactics: Which is best for growing your audience?
- The pros and cons of building your own CMS
- How marketers can build thought leadership
- 4 steps to starting a Web business without knowing a thing about coding
From beyond The Next Web:
- How In-app Purchases Has Destroyed The Industry [Baekdal]
- Facebook looks to nab Twitter’s ‘second screen’ crown in Super Bowl [Reuters]
- Twitter’s Super Bowl Goal: More Ad Credibility [Wall Street Journal]
- iOS8, Health Data, and Open Data [A VC]
- Developer Behind “Flappy Bird,” The Impossible Game Blowing Up The App Store, Says He Just Got Lucky [TechCrunch]
- 72 of the Biggest, Costliest Startup Failures of All Time [CB Insights]
- Any Given Sunday: Inside the Chaos and Spectacle of the NFL on Fox [The Verge]
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