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February 6, 2012, 3:00 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: paidContent, TechCrunch, The Verge, SplatF, The Seattle Times, Electronista, Geek.com, NBC Bay Area, Business Insider, GadgeTell, Pulse2, Neowin.net, CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, GeekWire, WebProNews 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.

Tyler Gray / Fast Company:

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

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @twitter

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, CNET, GigaOM, Gadget Lab and Electronista

Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:

The details behind the Honeywell, Nest lawsuit

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

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 and Internet Evolution. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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 and Marketing Pilgrim

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:

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

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

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, WebProNews, Pulse2, The Verge, LIVEdigitally, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, MacRumors, BetaNews and AllThingsD

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

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.

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, VentureBeat, All Facebook, Gizmodo, Mashable!, London Calling Blog, The Verge, WebProNews, Neowin.net, Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, Electronista, Guardian, Betabeat, The Next Web and eWeek

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

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.

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, TG Daily, TUAW, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, PadGadget, WebProNews, Electronista, 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: GigaOM, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, 9to5Google, SiliconFilter, Google Fiber Blog, Neowin.net, Telecompetitor and WebProNews. Thanks:@dannyaway

Matt Lynley / Business Insider:

An Ex-Zynga Engineer Is Ripping The Company Apart In Plain Sight — Whales, abusing contractors, and pushing metrics. — That's pretty much all Zynga is about, according to a former engineer. — An ex-engineer who was there about six months ago is opening up on an “ask-me-anything” question and answer thread in Reddit.

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

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 and The Next Web

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple's Macroscalar Architecture: Will it Take iOS to the Next Level? — The general consensus in the market today is that Apple's upcoming A6 quad core processor is to bring more performance to the 2012 iPad and iPhone. It's said that it will also preserve battery life due to a shift from a 40-nanometer to a 28-nanometer process.

More: O'Grady's PowerPage

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

Chris Matyszczyk / CNET:

Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics — Facebook has a long and tortured relationship with breasts. — Now women around the world have decided to tell the site to grow up. They are staging protests in order to get Facebook to change its policies against breast-feeding pictures.

More: All Facebook and WebProNews

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