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RIM CEOs 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, turned over the top job late Sunday to a little-known insider as part of a board and management shuffle.
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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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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
RIM: Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis step down, co-COO Thorsten Heins is the new CEO
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
New RIM CEO Won't Split Company Up: “I Don't Think There Is a Drastic Change Needed.”
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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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Tim Carmody / Epicenter:
RIM Reboots: New CEO, New Board, New Plan to License QNX Software
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Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:
At Research In Motion, a new CEO vows to silence the doomsayers
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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.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Facebook To Google: Don't Be Evil, Focus On The User — Last week I spent an afternoon down at Facebook, as I mentioned here. While at Facebook I met with Blake Ross, Direct of Product (and well known in web circles as one of the creators of Firefox). Talk naturally turned to the implications …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action — While the shutdown last week of Megaupload and the arrest of its founder and management team was certainly dramatic, a situation of perhaps even greater gravity is beginning to emerge. — Over the past 48 to 72 hours …
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Electronista:
Megaupload CEO asks bail, loses US lawyer, sees more arrests
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
MediaFire CEO: Unlike Megaupload, our business model isn't built on piracy
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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
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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.
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: YouTube hits 4 billion daily video views — (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's video website, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company. — The jump in video views comes as Google pushes YouTube beyond …
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let's Talk Piracy & “The Simpsons” — Rupert, my son had a simple request. “Daddy, can we watch last week's episode of The Simpsons?” No, son, we can't. You can blame Rupert Murdoch for that. — Rupert, I know you're all upset about all those SOPA & PIPA protests last week.
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David Kushner / GQ:
The Hacker is Watching — Every online scam begins more or less the same—a random e-mail, a sketchy attachment. But every so often, a new type of hacker comes along. Someone who rewrites the rules, not just the code. He secretly burrows his way into your hard drive, then into your life.
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Flaws in Videoconferencing Systems Make Boardrooms Vulnerable — SAN FRANCISCO — One afternoon this month, a hacker took a tour of a dozen conference rooms around the globe via equipment that most every company has in those rooms; videoconferencing equipment.
Zee / The Next Web:
UFC website gets hacked due to its support for SOPA — The website of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the world's most popular martial arts organisation, has been hacked and visitors redirected to the hacker group's site at Ugnazi.com. — The motives behind the attack are unconfirmed …
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem — In the summer of 2009, I found myself invited to a small party in an old bourgeois apartment with breathtaking views of the Champ-de-Mars and Eiffel Tower. The gathering was meant to be an informal discussion among media people about Nicolas Sarkozy's push for the HADOPI anti-piracy bill.
