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6:55 AM ET, January 23, 2012

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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 …
Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:
At Research In Motion, a new CEO vows to silence the doomsayers
Discussion: Globe and Mail
Doug Alexander / Bloomberg:   Former Exchange Chief Stymiest Takes Helm at RIM in Shakeup
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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Electronista:
Megaupload CEO asks bail, loses US lawyer, sees more arrests  —  Megaupload saw its troubles expand on Sunday in multiple directions.  The file upload service's founder Kim Dotcom pressed for bail in a New Zealand court.  In a Reuters account, his attorney argued both that he had done nothing wrong …
Discussion: TorrentFreak, Bloomberg and PC World
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
MediaFire CEO: Unlike Megaupload, our business model isn't built on piracy
Discussion: Computerworld and Globe and Mail, 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
Discussion: PalmAddicts
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Tumblr now reaches 120M people each month  —  Tumblr's quirky blogging platform and community network reaches 120 million people every month, founder and CEO David Karp disclosed at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.  —  Karp, citing the startup's latest Quantcast figures …
Discussion: AllThingsD and The Next Web
 
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Niklas Magnusson / Bloomberg:
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Discussion: TechCrunch Europe
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Electronista:
Vodafone Australia first carrier to get Galaxy Tab post-ban
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