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July 9, 2012, 9:35 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Major Twitter for iPhone update incoming: more interactive, enhanced notifications — iOS 6′s redesigned App Store has leaked a major forthcoming update to Twitter's official iPhone application in its update history section. Twitter, in recent months, has come under fire due to potential …

More: Marketing Land, The Register, Business Insider, WebProNews, App Advice, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Apple Bitch, Gadgetsteria, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News and Mashable!. Tweets: @markgurman

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Will Ship in Q3 With Improved Display — With sales of the first-generation Kindle Fire petering out, Amazon is gearing up to launch its successor, a tablet that seeks to improve on the original while retaining a similar form factor.

Anthony Aarons / Bloomberg:

Samsung Wins U.K. Apple Ruling Over ‘Not As Cool’ Galaxy Tablet — Samsung Electronics Co. won an intellectual property ruling against Apple Inc. (AAPL) as a U.K. judge said the Galaxy tablet isn't “cool” enough to be confused with the design for the iPad. — The Galaxy tablet …

More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, SamMobile, Macgasm, UnleashthePhones, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, SlashGear and Hillicon Valley

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Wireless Firms Are Flooded by Requests to Aid Surveillance — WASHINGTON — In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a daunting 1.3 million demands for subscriber data last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages …

More: Betabeat, ZDNet, CNET, SlashGear, Pulse2 Technology … and textually.org

Tweets: @carwilj and @mikescarcella

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Apple Cracking Down On Sites Selling Access To iOS Betas — Last month, Andy Baio wrote a story for Wired detailing the world of selling access to Apple beta software to non-developers. Specifically, Baio's piece focused on sites that, for a price, allowed regular people to have their UDID …

More: CNET, iPhone, PadGadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Pulse2 Technology … and PhoneArena

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Kayak Prices Long-Delayed $100 Million IPO at $25 A Share — It's been a long time in coming, but today Kayak, the hotel and flight search provider, announced that it has priced its shares and will begin trading at a range of $22 to $25 on NASDAQ Exchange under the ticker symbol KYAK.

More: TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, Business Insider, GigaOM, Mashable! and memeburn

Bloomberg:

Samsung Said To Plan Windows RT Tablet For October Introduction — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the largest phone maker, will release a tablet that features Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT software when the operating system debuts, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

New Galaxy S III Commercials Show That The iPhone Can't Do Everything — Samsung released a new batch of commercials this weekend for its Galaxy S III flagship Android phone. — The ads don't waste time bashing the iPhone. Instead, they focus on what the Galaxy S III can do with some (funny) real-world examples.

More: PhoneArena and CNET

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook's App Center Goes International: Open To All English-Speaking Countries; Developer Translation Tool Added — Last week we got a little clue that Facebook was gearing up to take its App Center to markets outside the U.S., when it began to appear in the UK.

More: The Next Web, Facebook Newsroom and Facebook Developer Blog

Reuters:

Analysis: Microsoft loss reflects Web display ad world's woes — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp shelled out a record $6.3 billion for aQuantive in 2007 at the height of a race with Google Inc and Yahoo Inc to clinch the top spot in Internet display advertising, betting on what many thought was a red-hot business.

More: The CIO Report. Tweets: @ldignan

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, SecondLife Didn't Fail — Last night I spoke at an event put on by a site called IdeaMensch. They're doing a road trip, where the team is traveling city by city, holding events by and for entrepreneurs. I talked about why I started PandoDaily and some of my struggles along the way so far.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @mathewi

Rags Srinivasan / GigaOM:

What's behind the price signaling between Verizon and AT&T? — The two largest mobile service providers, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, are engaging in some serious price signaling. And you don't have to take my word for it, because the two leaders are not only signaling, they are explicitly saying that they're signaling.

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