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January 30, 2012, 7:55 AM

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Julie Bosman / New York Times:

Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life — IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg …

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David Carnoy / CNET:

Report: New Nook coming this spring — Barnes & Noble will reportedly be adding to its Nook lineup in the next few months. — The New York Times today published a long piece about Barnes & Noble taking on Amazon in the “fight of its life.” Buried in the middle of the two-page article …

More: SlashGear and GeekWire

Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:

Apple Puts New Engineers On Fake Products Until It Can Trust Them — Apple is so obsessed with secrecy, it sometimes puts new hires on fake products until they can be trusted. — Adam Lashinsky reported this tidbit in his new book “Inside Apple,” and a former Apple employee confirmed …

More: JIMROMENESKO.COM and Fortune

Rose Simone / TheRecord.com:

Stepping down was a hard decision, but the ‘right’ one: Lazaridis — WATERLOO — It was a day that had been coming for years and Mike Lazaridis knew it had to happen. — But as he gave up his co-chief executive officer position at Research In Motion, the company he founded in 1984, it packed an emotional punch.

More: Electronista, The Verge, CrackBerry.com, Business Insider, New York Times and PhoneArena

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

BlackBerry Under Siege in Europe

Associated Press:

Feds: Megaupload User Data Could Be Gone Thursday — Federal prosecutors say data from users of Megaupload could be deleted as soon as Thursday. — U.S. prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.

More: VentureBeat, TorrentFreak, Inquirer, Guardian, Gizmodo, CNET, Between the Lines Blog and SlashGear

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Web Second, Mobile First — Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. — The titles were: — Mobile First, Web Second — Mobile First, Web Second (continued) — If you're in the minority that never read these posts - you should.

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Thailand is the world's first government to endorse Twitter's censorship feature — Twitter's controversial move towards enabling the censorsing of tweets has gained the backing of its first international government, after authorities in Thailand publicly endorsed the introduction.

More: Unboxing Asia Blog, Guardian, Bangkok Post, Computer Business Review, TG Daily, globaltimes.cn, Ubergizmo, Examiner and PandoDaily. Thanks:@budip. See also Mediagazer

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola? — The financial performance of handset, tablet and set-top box maker Motorola suggests that it won't add $12bn (including $3bn of cash) in value to Google's business. But how can Google possibly earn its money back from patents?

More: PandoDaily, parislemon, Beyond Search and Interactioned. Thanks:@charlesarthur

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Facebook (Eye)PO: Tracking the Truth of the Biggest Deal of Web 2.0 — As AllThingsD.com wrote two weeks ago it would be — Facebook is close to filing its documents for a long expected public offering that is on track take place in late May. — The Wall Street Journal said last week …

More: The Register, The Consumerist and ReveNews. See also Mediagazer

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

DreamHost's Unhappy January Continues: First, A Database Breach, Now An Outage — DreamHost has been having a rough couple weeks. The low-cost hosting provider and domain name registrar found some unauthorized activity in its databases back on January 20th, which they later admitted …

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Windows Phone ‘Tango’ could support over three times as many languages, native code coming? — It's widely understood that the next major release of Windows Phone — codenamed Tango — will significantly expand the platform's support for internationalization, in part by driving the hardware requirements downmarket.

More: Electronista, PhoneArena, Softpedia News and IntoMobile

Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:

Senate cybersecurity bill sparking concerns about government control — The comprehensive cybersecurity bill set for a vote in the Senate this week is drawing some late concern from the tech industry that could threaten several years of legislative work. — The bill has not been released publicly …

Thanks:@gnagesh

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