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January 14, 2013, 10:50 AM

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Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cuts Order for iPhone Parts on Weak Demand — Apple Inc. has cut its component orders for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday. — Apple's orders for screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half …

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Apple shares flirt with $500 following iPhone 5 demand worries — Some reports have suggested that the iPhone is experiencing weaker-than-expected demand, pushing Apple's shares lower. — Apple's iPhone 5 — Apple shares could drop below the $500 mark, if pre-market trading trends continue throughout the day.

More: Digits, ZDNet, 9to5Mac and Forbes

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

WSJ: Demand For The iPhone Is Weak And Apple's Cutting Orders

More: Reuters, The Register, Forbes, TheStreet.com, The Atlantic Wire, BGR, TechCrunch, MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, BGR India and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @atul, @gruber, @thinkingtrades, @stevestreza, @atul, @edbott and @javed_del

Wall Street Journal:

Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist — Just days before he hanged himself, Internet activist Aaron Swartz's hopes for a deal with federal prosecutors fell apart. — Two years ago, the advocate for free information online, who was known to have suffered from depression …

More: The Volokh Conspiracy, TIME, Aaron Greenspan, Quote and Comment, memeburn, WebProNews and The Huffington Post

Tweets: @ryanjreilly, @xeni, @nikcub, @lrozen, @jeff and @nikcub

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

MIT Responds to Death of Activist Aaron Swartz, Begins Internal Investigation

More: The Verge, Inquirer, MIT, BBC, Ars Technica, TechEye, VentureBeat, CNET, TechWeekEurope UK, Crooked Timber, Politico, TechCrunch and Business Insider. Tweets: @biellacoleman. See also Mediagazer

Laura June / The Verge:

America's first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ — Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget, iClarified, DVICE and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

A Look at Samsung's Curved Smartphone Concept and 4.99-Inch 1080p AMOLED Display — I got a chance to look at some of Samsung Displays' new and upcoming products, probably one of the highlights of my CES 2013 experience. There's a bit to go through, but first up are their buzzworthy curved displays and a concept phone or two.

More: IntoMobile, digitaltrends.com, PhoneArena and Pocketnow

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Messenger For iPad, One More Thing Facebook Could Be Unveiling On Tuesday — Take a look at that “reach friends wherever they are now” image to the left. What's missing between the iPhone and the laptop? Ding ding ding! You're right! A tablet. — Okay, I'm sure it was obvious.

More: AllFacebook, The Appside, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Know Your Cell, VentureBeat, Business Insider and BGR India. Tweets: @ourielohayon

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

What Facebook Should Be Building — Facebook has a big launch event on Tuesday.

More: PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks and iDownloadBlog.com

Tweets: @stevekovach and @joshconstine

Thanks:@alexia

Pete Norman / Sky News:

TweetDeck: Twitter's UK Firm Risks Closure — TweetDeck is used by Twitter ‘power users’ to utilise multiple accounts — One of Twitter's UK companies is at risk of being struck off over repeated failure to file accounts with the business regulator, Sky News can reveal.

More: The Register, AllTwitter, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner Says Q4 PC Shipments Down 5% To 90.3M Units, HP Edges Out Lenovo, And Windows 8 Fizzles As Multiscreen Theory Fails To Materialize — If the huge profusion of mobile handsets, phablets and tablets on display at CES weren't enough of an indicator, we now have some numbers from Gartner …

More: Gartner, Computerworld, GeekWire, DailyFinance.com, Guardian, Engadget, ZDNet, CNET, DailyTech, Bloomberg, memeburn, The Next Web, SlashGear and The Loop. Tweets: @asymco

Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping:

Learning by Sharing: Snark-free CES observations — Wheels up, returning from CES. Seems like a good time to reflect and share some of my observations. — Sharing raw data is an important part of building a strong cohesive team. Raw data allows everyone on a team to see the inputs …

More: Bijan Sabet, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, WinBeta, GeekWire, Neowin, parislemon, atmaspheric, The Verge and The Wirecutter. Tweets: @waltmossberg. Thanks:@toddbishop

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Oracle ships Java 7 Update 11 with vulnerability fixes, increased security level for Java applets — After announcing a fix was coming just yesterday, Oracle on Sunday released Java 7 Update 11 to address the recently disclosed security vulnerability. If you use Java, you can download …

More: CNET, MacRumors, Network World, Reuters, Krebs on Security, Help Net Security, The Register, Ars Technica, Computerworld, iPhone Hacks, blog.chron.com, The Java Source, Inquirer, Naked Security, SecurityWeek, Guardian, ZDNet, Examiner, ZDNet and The Verge. Tweets: @0xcharlie

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Start-Up Investors Grow Wary of Tech Ventures After Facebook's I.P.O. — SAN FRANCISCO — Call it the Facebook effect. Until recently, investors had been all too eager to pour millions into any Web start-up with rapid growth, regardless of whether it made money or even had plans to do so down the road.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch and Los Angeles Times

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