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January 29, 2012, 10:50 PM

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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 …

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Aaron Glantz / New York Times:

Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can't Get Hired as an Industry Moves On — Silicon Valley may be booming again, but times are still tough for the 200 out-of-work professionals who crowd into Sunnyvale's City Hall every Thursday morning. — Most of them hold advanced degrees in engineering …

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Firefox 12 will feature long-awaited New Tab Page and Home Tab — After a long gestation period, it now appears that Firefox 12 — which moves to the Aurora channel at the end of the month — will feature the long-awaited New Tab Page and Home Tab. The new tab page is very like Chrome's feature of the same name.

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

Jennifer Granick / The Shout:

Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think — The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective. A few preliminaries: I'm responsible for the musings below …

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land

More: The Register and rc3.org

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay — Two weeks ago, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL have to block access to The Pirate Bay. — The ruling was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands and in a response XS4ALL …

More: Forbes

Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:

Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center of Future — Google's Finland data center is the ultimate metaphor for the Internet Age (Photos: Google) — Joe Kava found himself on the southern coast of Finland, sending robotic cameras down an underground tunnel that stretched into the Baltic Sea.

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Pass the popcorn: Y Combinator startup caught stealing from 37signals — Here's some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure's 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37signals.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

FounderSoup: Stanford and Andreessen's New Startup Generator — A single entrepreneur alone is vulnerable to shortsightedness, to fatigue. But with a team comes diverse perspective, encouragement, and the wherewithal to push through problems. That's why a group of Stanford computer science …

Reuters:

Japan's NEC to slash 10,000 jobs — (Reuters) - NEC Corp said Thursday it will slash 10,000 jobs, almost one in 10 of its workers, in a bid to cut costs as competition from foreign rivals including Apple Inc pushes it deep into the red. — NEC blamed its poor performance on weak demand …

More: Bloomberg, ZDNet and Engadget

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, Interactioned and Beyond Search. Thanks:@charlesarthur

Michael Geist Blog:

The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do — The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SOPA-like rules) …

More: ZDNet, Pulse2, CNET, ReadWriteWeb and Policy Blog

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, Washington Post, ReadWriteWeb, BBC, Mashable! and PC Magazine

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