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January 30, 2012, 8:37 AM

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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 …

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

BlackBerry Under Siege in Europe — The iPhone has taken a big bite out of the BlackBerry in a market where the older phone once dominated: business customers in North America. — Meanwhile, in Europe, Samsung is poised to do the same to Research in Motion, BlackBerry's maker …

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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.

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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.

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, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and PhoneArena

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 memeburn

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: Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Electronista and PhoneArena. See also Mediagazer

David Strom / ReadWriteEnterprise:

Blogging Declines Across the Inc. 500 — A new longitudinal study at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth focusing on the online activities of the Inc. 500 has found a huge drop in the number of companies maintaining corporate blogs over the past year.

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, Bangkok Post, Guardian, Computer Business Review, globaltimes.cn, TG Daily, 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

Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:

Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software — The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software. — It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Microsoft as public enemy number one.

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