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Barnes & Noble Uses Apps to Lure Customers Into Stores
Will tablets and e-readers kill bookstores of the nonvirtual variety? Not if Barnes & Noble can help it. The company is using apps on its Nook devices to help drive store traffic and sell physical books, board games and toys. Since last year, it has teamed up with software makers to run cross-promotions, the largest involving Angry Birds.

Technology and Philanthropy Merge at Davos
Saying there are a lot of rich people at the World Economic Forum is like noting that there is a lot of water in the ocean. And where there are millionaires and billionaires, there is also talk of philanthropy. Mobile payments and micro-giving were two of the main themes discussed during a panel on e-philanthropy at Davos.

Buzz on a Facebook I.P.O. Grows Louder
Facebook may file a prospectus for its initial public offering of stock as early as next week. The company is still hammering out a final date, but it is expected to submit its filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission within the next three weeks.

Today's Scuttlebot: The First Password and Cool Data Centers
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Friday's selection includes items on the first computer password, what the world's coolest data centers look like and the threat of a boycott against Twitter.

Faking It to Make It: A Beautiful Try
How far will companies go to create a favorable impression online? Much farther than you might think. The cosmetic surgery chain Lifestyle Lift, which was fined $300,000 two years ago for creating fake Web sites with fake testimonials, provides the clearest case to date of aggressive deceit.

Tim Cook: 'We Care About Every Worker'
After a New York Times article on conditions in Chinese factories that make Apple products, Timothy Cook, Apple's chief executive, sent a companywide memo on Thursday to explain. "We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern," he wrote.

The Caucus: Top Tech Official Leaving White House
Aneesh Chopra, the White House's first-ever chief technology officer, will step down, The Caucus reports. Mr. Chopra was charged with helping to modernize the federal bureaucracy and develop Web sites and applications to increase transparency and allow citizens to provide feedback.

The U.S. Military Cuts for the Cloud
The Pentagon's spending cuts, and the few spending increases in the military, are a technology story. It is not just about our country's troubled finances; defense has become one more victim of a computing revolution.

Daily Report: The Review Was Fake. The Refund Was Real.
David Streitfeld reports In The New York Times on Friday that some retailers may go to great lengths to gain an advantage in the brutal world of online commerce -- by offering a refund on a product in exchange for a review.

AT&T in $6.7 Billion Loss on Failure of T-Mobile Deal
AT&T reported a $6.7 billion loss for the fourth quarter on Thursday, largely stemming from the breakup fees incurred as a result of its failed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, reports Jenna Wortham in The New York Times.

Big Victory on Internet Buoys Lobby
The unlikely coalition of companies and consumer groups that helped quash antipiracy legislation on Capitol Hill last week is now weighing the future of what might be called lobbying 2.0, reports Somini Sengupta in The New York Times. Can the Internet industry, along with legions of newly politicized Web users, be a new force in Washington?

AT&T: We Need Spectrum or Prices Are Going Up
AT&T's chief executive says that because of the limited quantity of the frequency spectrum available, the nation may soon face a data shortage. He thinks the government is the problem. And he also thinks that because AT&T needs more spectrum, it will have to increase prices for customers and impose restrictions on data usage to manage rising demands for data.

Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy
Twitter will remove certain posts in certain countries, if asked. In principle, that could apply to a message promoting Nazi ideology in Germany, a critical remark about the monarchy in Thailand or perhaps even lines from "The Satanic Verses" in India, where the book remains banned. Exactly why the company chose to make the change now remains unclear, except for its global ambitions.

Today's Scuttlebot: Tales of Kim Dotcom and the iPhone Makers
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Thursday's selection includes items on the life of the founder of Megaupload, a new iPhone 5 rumor and the creator of the Apple stores unveiling his vision for J. C. Penney.

Macworld Conference Carries On Without Apple
Several years ago, the Macworld conference received what many assumed would be a fatal wound when Apple said it would bail out of the show as an exhibitor and keynoter. Macworld has refused to die, though, and attendance at this year's event, which opened Thursday, is up from last year.