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2:00 AM ET, June 23, 2011

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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+  —  Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the process of being acquired — and we're hearing from multiple sources that the price is over $1 billion.  —  The question now is who the buyer is.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:   Sources: PopCap Buyer Is EA
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
What's the Top-Selling Phone at Verizon and AT&T?  —  It's been about five months since Apple's iPhone debuted on Verizon's network and already it's the carrier's top-selling handset.  This according to BTIG Research (registration required), which spent the past three weeks asking 250 Verizon …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Verizon iPhone Halted Android's Surge. The iPhone 5 Could Reverse It.
Discussion: GigaOM
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
What Are Hulu's Owners Really Selling?  —  Yes, Hulu is for sale.  The video site hired bankers from Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners last week, people familiar with the company tell me.  They've just started asking potential buyers if they'd like to sign an NDA and take a looksee.
Discussion: @dannysullivan and @pkafka
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Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Hulu puts itself up for sale, retains investment banks
Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:
Apple's Tim Cook Visits China Mobile to Discuss 4G LTE iPhone  —  Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is spotted in China Mobile headquarters this morning.  A Chinese reporter from First Financial Daily (one of the most prosperous financial papers in China) managed to take a picture …
Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Apple granted patent on webpage scrolling behaviors, media granted patent on crazy  —  So Apple got yet another patent granted today, and now there's yet another media firestorm over whether it means Cupertino will be able to sue every other phone manufacturer out of business …
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
Verizon's new data plans broken down in complete detail  —  Having a hard time wrapping your head around the upcoming changes to Verizon's smartphone data plans?  We just got all the dirty details dropped in our laps.  Charts, e-mails, the whole kit and kaboodle, folks.  —  Let's start with what you see above.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Winklevoss twins abandon appeal of Facebook ruling  —  (Reuters) - The Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling upholding a $65 million cash-and-stock settlement reached with Facebook Inc.  —  The 2008 settlement was intended …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Final Cut Pro X Backlash  —  Chris Foresman at Ars Technica: … The gist is that many professional editors see Final Cut Pro X as an improved version of iMovie, not an improved version of Final Cut Pro.  This Twitter search, for example, is instructive.
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Final Cut Express, Server going away as Apple improves Final Cut Pro X
Bloomberg:
Apple Bid to Bar Amazon ‘Appstore’ Will ‘Likely’ Be Denied  —  Apple Inc. will “probably” lose its court bid to stop Amazon.com Inc. from using the term “Appstore” for a service selling programs for Android devices, a federal judge said.  —  Apple, whose top-selling product is the iPhone …
Tim Fernholz / Fast Company:
BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck  —  BankSimple's dream team (left to right, from top): Thomas Lockney, engineer; Shamir Karkal, CFO; Bill DeRouchey, creative director; Josh Reich, CEO; Toby Sterrett, engineer; Brian Merritt, operations; Alex Payne, CTO; and Ian Collins, engineer.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
American Express Teams With Foursquare  —  Foursquare, which made its debut in 2009, quickly began popularizing the idea of “checking in,” or using a cellphone application to tell friends that you are at a particular restaurant, bar or park.  —  Then Facebook and Google borrowed the concept — and even the term check in.
Manu Kumar / K9 Ventures:
The Making of Lytro  —  This is how I remember it: It's September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382.  In walks Ren Ng, introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?”  Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng, was a fellow PhD student with me at Stanford.
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Google's Schmidt predicts widespread “tap and pay” within a year  —  Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, believes that a third of check-out terminals in retail stores and restaurants will be upgraded to allow wireless “tap and pay” from mobile phones within the next year.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Exclusive: Top ISPs poised to adopt graduated response to piracy  —  Some of the country's largest Internet service providers are poised to leap into the antipiracy fight in a significant way.  —  After years of negotiations, a group of bandwidth providers that includes AT&T, Comcast …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
How PARC wants to reinvent the Internet  —  Xerox PARC's engineers developed the Ethernet, the mouse, the laser printer and many other staples of everyday computing back in the 1970s.  Forty years later, the lab is back at it: Teresa Lunt, VP and director of the computing science lab at PARC …
Discussion: Service-Oriented …
John Biggs / MobileCrunch:
RIM, You're Done Here  —  Research In Motion is done.  They'll be bought in the next year or so, their products will roll into whoever buys them - Microsoft, most probably - and they'll go the way of Nokia, Danger, and countless other mobile platforms.  They'll exist independently for a while and then be subsumed.
Brian Proffitt / ITworld:
Oracle's patents case against Google weakening  —  Judge may stay case pending patents' reexamination  —  Oracle's Java infringement case against Google isn't going exceptionally well for the database giant these days, with another setback delivered by the US Patent and Trademark Office …
Discussion: The Register and Groklaw
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month  —  We are blogging and DJing.  At The Same Time  —  Betabeat was just settling down for some refreshing key lime pie and Vint Cerf's new inspirational autobiography, ICANN and so Can You!, when we received an after hours email from Turntable.fm co-founder Billy Chasen.
Stu Woo / Digits:
EBay Plans Fulfillment Service for Sellers  —  EBay said it will start testing a merchandise storage-and-shipping service for its sellers later this year, a move that would help the online marketplace standardize delivery times for its merchants.  —  Spokeswoman Johnna Hoff said the San Jose …
Discussion: AuctionBytes Blog
Russell Holly / Geek.com:
Google TV 2.0 - a look into the Android 3.1 “Fishtank”  —  One of the things that seemingly wasn't covered much at Google I/O was Google TV.  It was clearly difficult for the Android team to admit that Google TV was not received nearly as well as everyone had hoped.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud  —  Microsoft plans to tweak its Windows Azure pricing, come July 1, to make the platform more attractive to users who want to migrate lots of data to the cloud.  —  The change, announced on June 22, also will result …
David Weir / 7x7SF:
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns to Become Global Head of News Products at Google  —  The CEO of Salon.com, Richard Gingras, held an emotional “all-hands” meeting with his staff today to tell them he is resigning, effective July 8th, to become global head of news products for Google.
AppleInsider:
‘CNBC Titans’ biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs airs Thursday night  —  The season premiere of “CNBC Titans” will kick off this Thursday at 9 p.m. when the program offers an unauthorized look at Apple's iconic chief executive, Steve Jobs.  —  In previous seasons, “CNBC Titans” …
Adrian Bathgate / Reuters:
Australia's $38 billion broadband plan clears last major hurdle  —  (Reuters) - Australia's plan to build a $38 billion national broadband network cleared a major hurdle on Thursday with a deal to pay top telecoms firm Telstra A$11 billion ($11.6 billion) for using its infrastructure.
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Facebook Forms ‘Client Council’ to Advise the Social Network on Advertising  —  McCann Worldgroup's Nick Brien and Coke's Wendy Clark to Serve on Formal Group  —  Dear ad industry: Facebook wants your help, so it's forming a 12-member client council that will give the social network input …
 
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Hulu Plus for Android is available now... for six devices
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Best Buy's Music Cloud: Skip It, For Now
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The death of open government
Grant Gross / Computerworld:
Proposed bill would require mobile carriers to detail 4G speeds
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