Maybe you were at the beach, relaxing and soaking up the sunshine, or in a park having a nice stroll. Whatever you were doing, fear not about having missed any tech news; over at The Next Web, we have you covered. Here’s a roundup of what you may have missed this weekend, or a refresher if you were still online.
In the news
- Slowing revenue growth predictions in its Q1 report clips $2.8 billion from LinkedIn’s market cap
- This week at Microsoft: Azure, Outlook.com, and Windows 8
- comScore: Apple nears 40% share of US smartphones, Samsung gains; Android down third month in a row
- Tesla adjusts Model S financing plan to include 72-month loans and best value resale guarantee
- Mozilla teams up with OTOY to bring plugin-free desktop app and HD video streaming to the browser
- Acer just restarted the Android tablet race to the bottom: The new target is $100
- The word ‘hackathon’ has been trademarked in Germany
- TripAdvisor taps TomTom’s geocoding tech to bring pinpoint location data to 200M users
- Spotify has acquired playlist discovery app Tunigo, one of the most popular apps on its platform
A LinkedIn special
- LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here’s the story of how it changed the way we work
- This is your life, LinkedIn: Ten milestones that have helped shape the company’s 10 year history
- LinkedIn’s Talent Solution service is perhaps the professional social network’s best kept secret
Good reads
- Type design inspiration: Inside the evolution of typography at Monotype
- Why Brazil’s ShoeDazzle clone Shoes4you decided to close shop
- The demise and rebirth of compact cameras
- Photo apps for fun and profit: Comparing the successes of Instagram and Camera+
- Explained: The actual difference between growth hacking and marketing
- How to win with marketplaces: The three success factors
- 10 ways to stay happy as an entrepreneur
- European startups: Here’s how to (not) raise capital in the US
- NARM VP Bill Wilson on the state of digital music: Automotive, metadata and contextual discovery
TNW Conference 2013: videos
- How Eventbrite built a company culture that scales, by co-founder Julia Hartz
- Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz shares how startups can make their own luck by watching for colossal shifts
- Dyn’s Andy Piggot talks about growth hacking and how data can help marketers scale a company
- Ninja innovation in the 21st Century with the Consumer Electronics Association’s Gary Shapiro
- DJ Ferry Corsten and Deezer’s MD reveal why the ‘human touch’ is vital for online music distribution
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Interesting stories from beyond The Next Web
- The Money Shot [Vanity Fair]
- Lunch with the FT: Xavier Niel [The Financial Times]
- Latest Product From Tech Firms: An Immigration Bill [The New York Times]
- Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take [Wired]
- In 2013, the keys to Android are still held by the carriers [The Verge]
- The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC [Both Sides of The Table]
- The Apprentices of a Digital Age [The New York Times]
- In Malaysia, online election battles take a nasty turn [Reuters]
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