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Wall Street Journal:
RIM CEOs to Give Up Top Posts in Shuffle — WATERLOO, Ontario—After 20 years together at the helm of Research In Motion Ltd., Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the company's co-chief executives, said they planned to turn over the top job early Monday to a little-known company insider as part of a board and management shuffle.
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
RIM: Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis step down, co-COO Thorsten Heins is the new CEO — It looks like the shake up everybody has been expecting at RIM has finally come to pass. Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have each stepped down from their co-CEO positions amid growing turmoil …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
RIM's new CEO isn't the shakeup it needed — For a brief moment, I had hopes that RIM had made a move that would unseat it from the funk it's been sitting in for years. And then I watched the introductory video of newly-appointed CEO Thorsten Heins. Anyone who assumes that a simple CEO swap …
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
RIM Posted This Video Of The New CEO Rambling About Why He Loves The Company
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The Verge, @pkedrosky, @lessien, Business Insider and GeekWire
Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
RIM Reboots: New CEO, New Board, New Plan to License QNX Software
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Fast Company, Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, @lessien, IntoMobile and BetaNews
Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:
At Research In Motion, a new CEO vows to silence the doomsayers
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Filesonic Kills File-Sharing Service After MegaUpload Arrests — To users of systems like BitTorrent, file-sharing means just that - the sharing of files with others. But this weekend users of Filesonic, one of the Internet's leading cyberlocker services, sharing files is currently a thing of the past.
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Inquirer, Tech Europe, Between the Lines Blog, Softpedia News, The Verge, Reuters, Geek.com, Neowin.net, Ars Technica, The Next Web, League for Gamers, CNET and TorrentFreak
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Electronista:
Megaupload CEO asks bail, loses US lawyer, sees more arrests
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TorrentFreak, Bloomberg and PC World
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
MediaFire CEO: Unlike Megaupload, our business model isn't built on piracy
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Computerworld, Globe and Mail and Digital Trends, Thanks:@seanludwig
Lee Rainie / Pew Internet:
Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period — Home - > - Reports - > - Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period - > - Findings — Findings — Tablet and e-book reader ownership surge in the holiday gift-giving period
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Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:
Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar — There was no must-have toy of Christmas 2011 — for youngsters, anyway. — For adults, tablet computers and e-readers were the gifts of choice, judging by a new report that indicates the number of adults in the United States who own tablets …
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Bloomberg:
Nokia Lumia Sales Seen Topping 1 Million — Nokia Oyj (NOK1V)'s first phones running Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) software may have sold enough units last year to help rebuild investor confidence in the Finnish company, which lost $19 billion in market value in 2011.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast — Editor's note: Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast, a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us through a detailed analysis …
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Reuters:
Europe to issue tough new data-protection rules soon — (Reuters) - The European Union will propose tough new rules in the coming days on how corporations handle Internet users' personal data, a long-awaited move that could have far-reaching implications for Web giants such as Google Inc and Facebook.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Developer Is Building An App Store For Banned Android Apps — An Android developer by the name of Koushik Dutta is building an alternative Android app store which will house the apps that have been banned from Google's official Android Market. These will include the custom ROMs …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Electricpig.co.uk, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
350,000 Textbooks Downloaded From Apple's iBooks in Three Days — Though nascent and unproven, Apple's new textbook initiative appears to be gaining lots of momentum — and quickly, too. Within days of its debut, Apple's iBooks textbook store had already racked up a significant number of downloads.
Agence France Presse:
‘Anonymous’ hackers attack Polish state website — WARSAW — Hackers identifying themselves as the “Polish Underground” took down the Polish government website early on Monday, the most recent in a series of attacks protesting against anti-piracy legislation.
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The Next Web, La Quadrature du Net, Associated Press and Boing Boing
