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February 25, 2013, 4:50 AM

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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Barnes & Noble Weighs Its E-Reader Investment — Even for a company with a lot of bad news lately, the bulletin from Barnes & Noble this month had an ominous feel. — Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest book chain, warned that when it reports fiscal 2013 third-quarter results on Thursday …

More: Engadget, GeekWire, Good E-Reader, CNET and PhoneArena

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Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Barnes & Noble to ‘move away’ from Nook hardware, reports NYT (update) — Barnes & Noble looks to be scaling back its Nook e-reader and tablet hardware efforts, according to a New York Times report. An unnamed source familiar with the company's corporate strategy says that while …

Jeffrey McCracken / Bloomberg:

Barnes & Noble's Riggio Said to Offer to Buy Out Bookstore Unit

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP announces Slate 7: the company's first Android tablet arrives in April for $169.99 — It's officially true: Hewlett-Packard is back in the mobile race. Today, HP is announcing its first Android product: the HP Slate 7. But it looks like the company won't be making a splash right away …

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Tweets: @stuarticus, @nateingraham, @zpower, @hp, @epro and @reckless

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

HP Slate 7 hands-on (update: video) — Well, this might just be the biggest news to come out of Mobile World Congress. Long after discontinuing the TouchPad (and the rest of its mobile devices, for that matter) HP is back with a new tablet. This time, though, it runs not webOS, but an old safety: Android.

More: The Verge, ZDNet, Technology Personalized, Examiner and Gizmodo

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

HP building multiple tablets this year: ‘we want to be the number one computer vendor’

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable!, IntoMobile, Electronista, Inquirer, iDownloadBlog.com and PalmAddict

The Mozilla Blog:

Mozilla Unlocks the Power of the Web on Mobile with Firefox OS — Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power the world's first Open Web Devices. — These operators include …

More: Mozilla Press Center, USA Today, Engadget, BBC, CNET, The Next Web, Mozilla Press Center, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Neowin, ZDNet, NYT Bits, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Forbes, Engadget, Engadget, Digits, Pocketnow and WinBeta

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @andreascon, @tobiaspeggs, @edbott and @theromit

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Mozilla CEO expects Firefox OS phones for US in 2014

More: ZDNet and Engadget

Eric Limer / Gizmodo:

Meet the ZTE Open, The First Official Firefox OS Phone

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace …

More: AllThingsD, Reuters and The Verge

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Nokia Expands Its Windows Phones To More Price Points With $180 Entry Level Lumia 520 And $330 Mid-Range Lumia 720 — Nokia has just announced two new Lumia smartphones at its Mobile World Congress press conference - broadening its Windows Phone 8 portfolio to five devices and filling …

More: Gizmodo, AllThingsD, CNET, Engadget, Engadget, Engadget, The Verge, The Verge, The Verge, The Next Web, The Next Web, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and SlashGear. Thanks:@riptari

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Samsung confirms Galaxy S IV for March 14th unveiling — We'd already heard from our sources that the Galaxy S III's successor would be unveiled on March 14th, and that's just been made official. In comments reported by Edaily, mobile chief JK Shin has said that the Galaxy S IV will indeed …

More: Reuters, AllThingsD, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Engadget, VentureBeat, Digits, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mobile Magazine, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and Clove Technology's Blog

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

AirWatch, Mobile Device Manager for Enterprises, Raises $200 Million from Insight Venture Partners — There's some big funding news coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. AirWatch, a privately held nine-year-old company that specializes in helping large companies manage …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, bizjournals and VentureBeat

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

MasterCard's PayPass Wallet Services Evolve Into MasterPass, Will Open To Canadian And Australian Users First — It was just this past May that MasterCard expanded its stake in the digital payments arena with its PayPass Wallet Services, and it's already getting a bit of an overhaul.

More: ReadWrite, CNET, The Verge and Wired

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Will Google Penalize Chromebooks, Google Analytics, AdWords & Google+ For Using Advertorials? — A day after warning publishers against advertorials, will Google's search team now have to penalize parts of its own company for running advertorials? Perhaps, and if so, it wouldn't be the first time.

More: Google Webmaster Central Blog and SEO Book.com

Brian Heater / Engadget:

AT&T LTE coming to GM's 2015 fleet — Ready to trade your old car in for a shiny new mobile hotspot? AT&T and GM are using the international platform that is Mobile World Congress to announce a partnership that'll bring the carrier's LTE network to “millions of cars” under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac umbrellas.

More: CNET, The Verge, Associated Press, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, USA Today and Wall Street Journal

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Monday — During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their a plan to warn and “punish” BitTorrent pirates. — The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information …

More: Mashable!, PC Magazine, Electronista, Gizmodo, The Verge and TECH.BLORGE.com

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