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July 11, 2012, 1:00 PM

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Amazon Appstore Developer Blog:

Announcing Amazon GameCircle - A New Gaming Experience for Kindle Fire — Announcing Amazon GameCircle, a new set of services designed to make it easier for you to create more engaging gaming experiences and grow your business on Kindle Fire. — GameCircle will make achievements …

More: AllThingsD, GeekWire, Fast Company, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Pulse2 Technology …, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Games.com News. CityVille …, WebProNews, Android News, Rumours … and Ubergizmo

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Amazon Pumps Up Kindle Fire Gaming With GameCircle, Opens APIs To Developers — Amazon has just announced a bit of good news for avid Kindle Fire gamers and developers — the company has been working to revamp the gaming experience on their wallet-conscious tablet and have decided to share the fruits of their labor.

More: GigaOM, PandoDaily, Business Insider, The Next Web, Engadget, App Advice, Gamasutra, iDownloadBlog.com, Publishers Weekly, fiercemobilecontent.com, I4U News, SlashGear and Business Wire

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter's Pitch Deck for Big Advertisers (Slides) — Twitter's ad business is looking less like an experiment and more like a real business, one that could generate $1 billion a year in the not-too-distant future. — If Twitter ads really take off, it will be because CEO Dick Costolo …

More: Business Insider

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Twitter CEO says company has ‘a truckload of money’ — Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo told the Los Angeles Times his company has a “truckload” of money and will hold off going public for as long as it wants. He's pictured here at event in Cannes, France, three weeks ago.

More: The Tech Trade, Pulse2 Technology …, Marketing Pilgrim, Betabeat, CNET, SocialTimes and Tech Daily Dose. Tweets: @lexnfx

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Confirmed: Mountain Lion sends some 64-bit Macs gently into that good night — Mountain Lion won't support all 64-bit Macs when it ships in late July. — Apple, Inc. — Apple has now confirmed via its Mountain Lion upgrade page that previously published limitations on some 64-bit Macs will extend to the final release.

More: Inquirer, BGR, MacRumors, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, TUAW, SlashGear and iClarified

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Google's Nexus 7 Costs $152 To Make, IHS iSuppli Teardown Finds — Google's Nexus 7 tablet may be all about an attempt to compete with Apple's incredibly popular iPad, but when you crack it open it sure looks an awful lot like Amazon's Kindle Fire inside. — That's the impression that analysts …

More: Inquirer, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, Macgasm, PhoneArena, dailywireless.org and Android Phone Fans

Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon, With Suppliers, Is Testing a Smartphone — TAIPEI—Amazon.com Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a smartphone, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting that the Internet retail giant, which sells the Kindle Fire tablet computers, is considering broadening its mobile-device offerings.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Ballmer: “Surface Is Just a Design Point” — By designing and building the Surface tablet itself, Microsoft is not blowing off its longtime PC manufacturing partners. And PC makers shouldn't take it that way. Surface is a reference design meant to show them what's possible.

More: The Verge, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, PadGadget, channelregister.co.uk, AppleInsider, BGR and CNET

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple corporate recruiting video tours you through Apple HQ, tells interesting stories — Earlier this year, Apple uploaded an interesting corporate employee recruiting video. It might just be the most in-depth tour of Apple's Cupertino headquarters that we have ever seen on a public forum, especially Apple's own website.

More: Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, PhoneArena, Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web and iDownloadBlog.com

AppleInsider:

Rumor: Next-gen iPhone, ‘iPad mini’ engineering samples pictured — A pair of reports on Tuesday allege to show an “engineering samples” of Apple's rumored next-generation iPhone and smaller 7-inch iPad, the latter being one of the first mock-ups to hit the web.

Lauren Barack / Fortune:

Facebook wants to be your online bank — The social media giant is quietly supporting new services for banks that want to engage socially with their customers: The decidedly unsocial business of online banking. — FORTUNE — Someday soon, Facebook users may pay their utility bills …

More: Business Insider, InvestorPlaceGadgets … and Going Social Now

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple responds to EPEAT concerns — Apple on Tuesday responded to concerns that it asked to have its products removed from EPEAT, the U.S. government's list of environmentally friendly products. — “Apple takes a comprehensive approach to measuring our environmental impact …

More: Mashable!, The CIO Report, CNN, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Examiner, AppleInsider, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, Electricpig.co.uk, CNET, ITworld.com, BBC and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @counternotions

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

EU proposes changes to music licensing rules: iTunes, others to benefit — Summary: If you've ever found that iTunes or another premium content service is missing your favourite music album, that could change with the easing of EU licensing rules. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker

More: Inquirer, The Verge, Fast Company, Bloomberg, The Next Web, EU Press Room, Softpedia News, SlashGear and New York Times

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Starbucks launches mobile payments on Android in Canada and UK — Starbucks today announced a redesigned Android app that will enable users in Canada and the UK to pay for drinks straight from their phones by showing cashiers an onscreen barcode. The feature has thus far only existed …

More: TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, Engadget, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central:

Sprint's Galaxy S III update removes local search abilities — Yesterday we heard that the Sprint Galaxy S III was in the midst of getting a small “security” update over-the-air, but with little detail of what exactly was changed. The jury is still out about any security fixes …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com and The Verge

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Judge Rejects Key Universal Music Argument In Legal Fight With Grooveshark — Two and a half years ago, Universal Music (UMG) sued Grooveshark (or, really, its parent company Escape Media). The case has had a few twists and turns since then, but the judge has issued a ruling (embedded below) …

More: TorrentFreak, TECHGEEK.com.au, The Verge and Softpedia News

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Microsoft urges death of Windows gadgets as researchers plan disclosures — Just two weeks before researchers are to disclose bugs in Windows “gadgets” at Black Hat, Microsoft acknowledged unspecified security vulnerabilities in the small pieces of software supported by Vista and Windows 7.

More: ZDNet, Microsoft Support, The H Security, Technet, The Verge, Black Hat, TechWeekEurope UK and SecurityWeek

Elinor Mills / CNET:

Facebook connects users to free antivirus software — Here is a screenshot of the prompt Facebook users will get when they indicate that their computer may have an infection. — Facebook is now directing users who think their computer might be infected to sites where they can get free antivirus software.

More: Facebook, The Verge, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Google Ventures Leads $5M Investment In Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change — Pocket Change, a startup offering a virtual currency platform for Android games, has raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding. — Creating a currency platform that works across Android games …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

More malware found hosted in Google's official Android market — Security researchers have found more malware hosted in Google's Android marketplace, the Google Play Store, a discovery that once again demonstrates the limitations of a recently deployed scanning service designed to flag malicious apps …

More: Security, Help Net Security, ZDNet, Symantec, The Official Lookout Blog, SecurityWeek, Softpedia News, F-Secure Antivirus … and TechWeekEurope UK

Wall Street Journal:

A Fight in Silicon Valley: Founders Push for Control — There's a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. At stake: Power itself. — Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Betabeat and ZDNet

Abraham Riesman / Motherboard:

Crossdressing, Compression and a Collider: The First Photo on the Web — The first photographic image ever uploaded to the Web was a Photoshop disaster. It was created to sell something, and featured attractive women in a come-hither pose. — In short, photo-uploading was born …

More: Network World, Geekologie, Innovationnewsdaily.com, TechSpot, Telegraph, PetaPixel, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, The Verge and BuzzFeed

Agence France Presse:

Russian parliament approves ‘web censorship’ bill — MOSCOW — The Russian parliament on Wednesday voted to approve a contentious bill that activists fear will introduce Internet censorship by blacklisting sites deemed as undesirable. In a further controversial move, deputies also passed …

More: The Moscow Times, dailywireless.org, Bloomberg, en.ria.ru, TECHGEEK.com.au, The Raw Story, en.ria.ru and RIA Novosti. Thanks:@ross

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Symantec Gives Cloud Backup A Boost, Goes In On Backupify's $9 Million Series C — Backupify, the startup providing backup, search and restore solutions for online services like Google Apps, Salesforce, Facebook and Twitter, is announcing today that it's secured $9 million in Series C funding …

More: The Next Web, PR Newswire, Xconomy and BetaKit

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S 4G added to Android Open Source Project, ‘no plans’ to add Sprint Galaxy Nexus — After announcing that Android 4.1 had been submitted to the Android Open Source Project, Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru responded to the inevitable flood of questions that followed with a few more details.

More: Engadget

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

AdRoll nabs $15M from Foundation, Accel, & Merus to get you clicking more ads — Online ad retargeting startup AdRoll has raised $15 million in its second-round of funding with an aim of expanding the company and improving its tech that allows companies to serve more relevant display ads, the company announced today.

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch and AdAge

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Is Gearing Up For A Redesign: Bigger Pictures, Anchored Menu (And A Life Less Tweeted) — LinkedIn these days may be the social network that is used most by those looking for a new job (and not the place to read tweets), but the company has long wanted to be seen as the place for a whole lot more …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to reach 44 retail store total by mid-2013 — Summary: Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told Worldwide Partner Conference attendees more retail stores are coming, including two outside the U.S., in fiscal 2013. — Follow @maryjofoley

More: The Verge and CNET

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Adds 20 Museums To Indoor Google Maps, Says More On The Way — Following the debut of indoor maps in Google Maps back in November, Google announced today that it's adding the indoor maps for twenty U.S. museums to its Maps app on Android. The museums added include the de Young Museum …

More: The Official Google Blog, Smithsonian Newsdesk, Android Phone Fans, Street Fight, IntoMobile, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Softpedia News, DCist, Google Maps Mania, BetaNews, Engadget and dailywireless.org

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