Dan's Best of the Web: Touch-Based iOS Analytics Tool Heatma.ps Launches Out Of Beta

Technology companies are invariably making news - thankfully for me personally since this is a tech website. Who're we looking at now?

Who shall we have a look at first? Well, it's IOS and App Store (iOS) ..
- Touch-Based iOS Analytics Tool Heatma.ps Launches Out Of Beta from techcrunch.com
- Apple's iOS Boss, Store Chief Stepping Down from mashable.com

Steve Ballmer has been getting a lot of press as well:
- Here's To Another Crazy One: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Narrates Windows Phone 8 Ad from techcrunch.com
- Let's Take A Look At Steve Ballmer's Windows Phone from www.webpronews.com
- Steve Ballmer Wants You to Come Over to Windows 8 [VIDEO] from mashable.com

Google and Google AdWords were talked about quite a bit as well:
- How to Know Which Links to Disavow in Google - "In the aftermath of Google's Disavow Links Tool announcement, SEOs and webmasters across the industry are screaming one question, loud and clear: How do I know which links to disavow? What follows is a step-by-step, tactical walkthrough of exactly howto perform a link profile audit, and how to figure out which links should be removed and/or disavowed. Scrapebox(A tool every SEO must have in their arsenal)Proxies for Scrapebox (optional, recommended. I recommend going for the "Bonanza" package from the "Exclusive Proxies" section.)Microsoft ExcelTo get started, we need to analyze the most important signal that Google's Penguin algorithm looks for: over-optimization of anchor text.Step 1: Get a list of your website's inbound links and put the list in your Excel spreadsheet" - said www.searchenginejournal.com
- Q&A With Google's Matt Cutts On How To Use The Link Disavow Tool - searchengineland.com
- Can Bing Now Lure More Searches Away From Google? - www.webpronews.com

Let's end up with a look at IPad and IPhone 4
- Amazon Gets Feisty, Updates Homepage To Talk Smack On The iPad Mini - "Competition in the low-cost tablet space has been heating up for a while now thanks to strong new hardware from the likes of Asus, Google, and Barnes & Noble, but it seems the time has come for the Kindle Fire hucksters at Amazon to go on the offensive against a very prominent rival: Apple's iPad mini" - said techcrunch.com
- Battle of the Tablets: Nexus 10 vs. iPad 4, Surface and Kindle Fire HD [CHART] - mashable.com
- "Banned" iPad Mini Promo Makes Sure We Know It's Not an iPod Touch - www.webpronews.com