Been offline this weekend? Here’s the tech news you missed

Taking time away from the Internet is healthy, but you sure do miss a lot. If you were offline this weekend, here’s a chance to catch up on the tech news and discussion you missed on The Next Web and beyond.

In the news

• Kim Dotcom’s MEGA cloud storage service gets a Firefox extension
• Relax, Microsoft’s partial sellout of the Surface Pro at its online store doesn’t mean much
• Forget privacy reforms, CISPA is coming back on Wednesday in its exact previous form
• Juicing its pre-IPO revenue, Twitter raises the price of a Promoted Trend to $200,000 per day
• Codenamed ‘Link’, the Chromebook Pixel may be real (and sport a Google-themed light bar)
• Apple to open new R&D center in Ra’anana, Israel in 2H13, staffed by over 100 former TI employees
• Timehub lets developers generate invoices from their GitHub repositories
• As promised, Kim Dotcom starts payouts for Mega vulnerability reward program: Seven bugs fixed in first week (Updated)
• Shervin Pishevar switching roles at Menlo Venture as he starts Sherpa, a startup foundry

Good reads

• How a social media news stream turns the sealed-off World Economic Forum into a virtual event
  
• Would push notifications for HTML5 apps kill native apps?
• It’s 2013, where’s my 60-minute online booze delivery service?
• As the social TV industry comes of age, stay tuned for what Facebook has in store
• Zerofund: An innovative platform to kickstart Greece’s startup scene
• There’s no startup scene in Oman, but that’s not holding some entrepreneurs back
• Living the dream: Menlo Ventures’ Shervin Pishevar

Interesting stories from beyond The Next Web

• The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings [Ars Technica]
• Disruptions: Where Apple and Dick Tracy May Converge [New York Times]
• Amazon unpacked [Financial Times]
• How Facebook, A Pixar Artist, And Charles Darwin Are Reinventing The Emoticon [Buzzfeed]
• Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken [The Awl]

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