Story by
Kaylene Hong
Kaylene Hong was Asia Reporter for The Next Web between 2013 and 2014, based in Singapore. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin. Stay in Kaylene Hong was Asia Reporter for The Next Web between 2013 and 2014, based in Singapore. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin. Stay in touch via Twitter or Google+.
Too caught up with the whirl of busy weekend duties to catch up on the tech news that broke over the weekend? We’ve done the job for you. Here’s a roundup of what you may have missed over the weekend, including stories from The Next Web and beyond.
In the news
- Yahoo board approves $1.1B Tumblr salvation, but will the company accept?
- Youtube reveals users now upload more than 100 hours of video per minute, as the site turns eight
- Autodesk buys Tinkercad, saving the easy to use Web-based 3D modeling tool from closure
- Developer releases template code to allow almost anyone to create a Google Glass app
- Russia gets its first taste of mobile social banking, thanks to Instabank
- That buzzing sound: President Obama to address drone program in Thursday speech
- Lunch date with Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey raises $31,600 for educational charity BUILD
Good reads
- Turnaround: Marissa Mayer’s first 300 days as Yahoo’s CEO
- Meet three startups that participated in Microsoft’s Azure-focused Israeli accelerator
- What the future looks like inside the lab that brought us Siri, the mouse and the Internet itself
- 5 things the UK’s Silicon Roundabout needs to do to take on Silicon Valley
- The Internet of Things: In action
TNW Conference 2013: videos
Interesting stories from beyond The Next Web
- One issue holding up Apple iRadio: The economics of skipping songs [CNET]
- The Evolution Of Hacker News [TechCrunch]
- Yahoo! And Tumblr: It’s About Display, Streams & Native At Scale [Battellemedia]
- Why Yahoo Doesn’t Think Tumblr Has a Porn Problem [AllThingsD]
Image credit: Thinkstock