Around the Web 1.26.09: Sprints laying off 8,000, Twitter raising cash, USC saving Holocaust memories

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-- A lesson in adjusting to the marketplace: Pranalytica launched to try to identify diseases in human breath. Now the Santa Monica start-up is seeking a better way to shoot down antiaircraft missiles with lasers. LAT

-- Sprint gets the Palm Pre in a few months. But it can’t wait that long for business to turn around, so it’s laying off 8,000 employees. Silicon Alley Insider

-- Twitter wants cash. The microblogging service is raising more venture-capital funding at a $250-million valuation. TechCrunch

-- On the Internet, teens have more to fear from other teens than from adult sexual predators. LAT

-- The tech industry gets its share in President Obama’s $825-billion economic stimulus plan. NYT

-- USC’s Shoah Foundation is racing against time to preserve Holocaust memories before the videotapes holding them decay. LAT

-- Larry Magid remembers writing his first review (it was for the L.A. Times) of the original Macintosh computer 25 years ago. He’s struck by how influential Apple and Steve Jobs were then -- and still are today. Mercury News

-- Sales of Microsoft’s Zune player are tanking. PaidContent.org

-- Craig Barrett, Intel’s retiring chairman, will leave behind a mixed legacy when he departs to fish the Montana rivers. The chip maker is hurting. CNet

-- The BlackBerry Storm is struggling with complaints about the typing software and software glitches that slow performance. WSJ (subscription may be required)

-- Pedal your way to a charged laptop. AzSustainability.com via Digg

-- Chris Gaither