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January 14, 2013, 8:10 AM

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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 …
Steven Musil / CNET:
Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide  —  Hacktivist group defaces university pages after the school promises a full investigation into MIT's role in events leading up to the Internet activist taking his life.  —  Just hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pledged …
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 …
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
WSJ: Demand For The iPhone Is Weak And Apple's Cutting Orders  —  The Wall Street Journal is reporting tonight what just about every analyst has already said: Apple is cutting iPhone parts orders.  —  The Journal's explanation for the cuts is pretty simple: “Apple has cut its component orders …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.

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