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• Twitter, IBM form partnership around analytic apps

  IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter's massive flows of social media data with Big Blue's analytics software, including Watson.

• CIOs Should Focus on Their Workplace Legacies

  Business coach and psychologist Andrew Thorn wants leaders -- both people in positions of authority and those who influence in their everyday roles -- to think beyond business results to focus on the legacy they create. Thorn lays out his ideas in his new book, Leading With Your Legacy in Mind: Building Lasting Value in Business and Life.

• Twitter boss: Don't rely on 'young people' to tweet

  Twitter Australia MD, Karen Stocks, says executives shouldn't leave tweeting to the young people in the company and should instead be joining the platform to better engage with customers, employees and partners.

• Twitter shares fall as user growth stalls

  Twitter still has work to do to gain more users, and grow its ad sales in the process, judging from Wall Street's reaction to its latest financial results.

• An Easy Way to Dramatically Improve iPhone (or Any Phone) Security

  This past weekend, as I stood in line at a Whole Foods market in Portland, Maine, waiting to buy delicious Maine beer, I did something kind of sketchy. I'm not proud of it.

• Twitter Announces 'Fabric' Framework in Attempt to Woo Mobile Devs

  Last week, at Twitter's first Flight mobile developer conference, the company tried to rebuild previously burned bridges by convincing developers that it is finally expanding its platform for mobile development beyond the current scope.

• Twitter keeps alive Twitpic domain and photo archive

  Twitter will keep alive the domain and photo archive of Twitpic, which was set to shut down on Saturday, the failed image-sharing website said.

• Twitter weaves Fabric, but will developers be drawn in?

  To identity Twitter solely as a micro-blogging service could be to do it a disservice. The company wants to be much more to developers building mobile apps, and at its Flight conference on Wednesday it welcomed them in.

• Twitter brings log-in via phone number to wider app landscape with 'Fabric' platform

  Twitter is opening its nest to more mobile developers, with a new service for easier app sign-ins.

• Twitter tears into mobile developer services with Fabric

  The problem with Twitter has always been monetization: Ads don't pull in the revenue needed to maintain the social network, and it doesn't have Facebook's pull to entice developers to build on top of the platform. But no more -- or at least so Twitter hopes.

• How to control trolls with Google+

  Every major social network is a mixed bag of good qualities and bad. For example, the best quality of Twitter might be its limit on the length of tweets, which enables you to follow many people and organizations without getting bogged down in long-winded, complicated posts.

• Twitter Audio Cards let you play tunes while browsing

  Twitter is adding "dockable" music players to its stream of messages, photos and videos with a new feature called Audio Cards.

• Twitpic really is shutting down after a failed acquisition

  What a tease. Image hosting company Twitpic will in fact shut down on Oct. 25, the firm said Thursday -- a surprising development after it previously said an acquisition would save it from death.

• Social Sites Gaining Market Share Faster Than Search Engines

  Google remains the dominant source of Web-traffic referrals, with more than 25 percent of all website visits coming from the search engine, according to Adobe's third-quarter 2014 digital advertising report. The company's share of search spend dipped 1 percent year-over-year to 70 percent overall.

• S-money invites French Twitter users to make their payments public

  What could be better than an app that lets you make payments to friends, charities or crowdfunding sites with a few taps on your smartphone? How about an app that does all that -- and tells everyone what you spent.