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February 6, 2012, 2:15 PM

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Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader:

Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store — Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months. This project is a test to gauge the market and see if a chain of stores would be profitable.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, SplatF, The Seattle Times, Business Insider, GadgeTell, Mashable!, The Next Web, WebProNews, Neowin.net, CNNMoney.com, GeekWire and The Tech Trade. Tweets: @jason. See also Mediagazer

The Official Google Blog:

Super Bowl XLVI: Mobile, Manning and Madonna — Now that the final Super Bowl touchdown has been scored, the dip bowl wiped clean and the last of the chicken wings devoured, we're taking a look at some game-day search trends to see what football fans were searching for this year.

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

First Legal Streaming Super Bowl A Success, But Audience Still Denied The Real Show — Lately, we've been seeing more and more big television events come with an online streaming counterpart. Sporting and televised events are showing up online with increasing frequency …

More: Web Performance Optimization, The Verge, Search Engine Watch, MediaPost, Gizmodo, WebProNews, dailywireless.org, Business Wire, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, CNET, FT Tech Hub, IntoMobile, Mashable! and TVexchanger.com. See also Mediagazer

Tyler Gray / Fast Company:

Twitter Breaks Record During Super Bowl XLVI: 12,233 Tweets Per Second

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @twitter

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Samsung's quad-core Galaxy S III reportedly just 7mm thick, set to launch in May — Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S III will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it is unveiled in the coming months. South Korea's Electronic Times News on Monday cited unnamed sources …

More: CNET, 9to5Google, GigaOm, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google, Techland, SlashGear, Business Insider, Phones Review, Electronista, MobileSyrup.com, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, Sammy Hub and dailywireless.org

Paul Carr / PandoDaily:

Sorry Nick, Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Owe You Fifty Dollars — Nick Bilton wants his fifty bucks. The New York Times tech writer figures that's his share of Facebook's $100 billion valuation — based on his own contribution to the “poking, liking and sharing on the site”.

More: All Facebook

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?'

More: Friending Facebook Blog, Media Decoder, Internet Evolution and ReadWriteWeb. Tweets: @romenesko

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free — Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. — So here we were, during the Super Bowl, with Apple fanboys and fangirls lining up in San Francisco.

More: Engadget, BGR, Mashable!, Computerworld, Technologizer, AppleInsider, Pulse2, WebProNews, LIVEdigitally, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, BetaNews, Electronista, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, AllThingsD, Global Nerdy, TUAW and Forbes

Tweets: @gattaca, @jpar0, @rsarver, @mulligan, @gruber, @parislemon, @twitter and @anthonyquintano

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Samsung Galaxy Note Goes Up For Pre-Order At AT&T

More: CNET

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good — Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. — The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site's operators decided to shut the site down for good today.

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Facebook's Mobility Challenge — Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. — Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half …

More: Mobile

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:

Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, VatorNews, PC World, Financial Times, VentureBeat, Fast Company, WebProNews and Gizmodo

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest — Conglomerate Honeywell, which develops thermostats, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nest Labs, the developer of the innovative smart thermostat. The lawsuit, which was filed United States District Court …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, GigaOM, CNET, Electronista, Mashable! and WebProNews

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online — Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content …

More: CNET, All Facebook, Gizmodo, The Verge, London Calling Blog, WebProNews, Neowin.net, Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, Electronista, Guardian, Betabeat, The Next Web and eWeek

Clare Jim / Reuters:

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue falling — (Reuters) - HTC was once the standard bearer of the Android phone but that was 2010 — a long time ago in mobile terms. Now analysts say it faces another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

RedBox Partners With Verizon, Launches Streaming Service — Coinstar subsidiary Redbox today announced a new partnership with Verizon for the launch of a streaming video service. The joint venture will launch in second half of 2012, and be subscription-based and “affordable service …

More: Computerworld, GeekWire, DSLreports, Verizon, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Tech Trade, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin.net, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Reuters, Business Insider, Electronista, Telecompetitor and AllThingsD. Thanks:@austincarr. See also Mediagazer

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

‘Apple HDTV’ imagined in Best Buy survey: 42-inch model for $1,499 — Best Buy appears to be sending surveys to customers getting feedback on potential new products and services — something that virtually every consumer-facing company does on a regular basis — but one thing stood out this time around …

More: MacRumors, Gizmodo, TG Daily, TUAW, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, Electronista, PadGadget, WebProNews, T3 News and GeekSugar

Scott Canon / Kansas City Star:

Google to start hanging Internet cables today in KCK — Company appears on pace to offer super-fast Internet in some neighborhoods by the first half of this year. — Google Inc. will begin construction today in Kansas City, Kan., on its long-awaited, much-coveted ultrafast Internet service.

More: Google Fiber Blog, ReadWriteWeb, SiliconFilter and WebProNews. Thanks:@dannyaway

Ted Sarandos / The Official Netflix Blog:

“Lilyhammer” Premieres Today — Hello. Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer for Netflix here. — Do you love the indulgence of watching episode after episode of your favorite shows on Netflix? — Have you ever wished you could do the same with new shows when they premiere on TV?

More: Engadget, PC Magazine, GigaOM, PC World, WebProNews, Electronista, The Next Web and GadgeTell

Chi-Chi Zhang / CNN:

Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture — Chengdu, China (CNN) — Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.

More: AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Electronista and Softpedia News

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is GigaOM Buying paidContent? — Who wants to pay for paidContent? We'll find out soon, it seems, because the sales process for the pioneering blog and its parent company ContentNext appears to be wrapping up. — But if you were making a bet, you'd get good odds that the most likely buyer …

Tweets: @rafat. See also Mediagazer

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Does Facebook really embody “The Hacker Way”? Famous hackers discuss — In last week's SEC filing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg poked a huge hornet's nest when he referenced “The Hacker Way.” — Some of the pioneers of the hacker ethos and culture have previously defined hacking …

Tweets: @codinghorror. Thanks:@kevinmarks

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Brightcove Looks to Raise $55 Million in I.P.O. — Brightcove, the online video distribution platform, has set its price range for its initial public offering at $10 to $12 a share, according to a filing on Monday. — At the midpoint of that range, Brightcove is on track to raise $55 million …

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