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July 11, 2012, 3:00 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 …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Amazon Pumps Up Kindle Fire Gaming With GameCircle, Opens APIs To Developers

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Mark Jardine / Tapbots:

Tweetbot for Mac — It's finally here! (sort of) — Tweetbot for Mac is finally available! However it may not be quite as you had hoped. Developing for the Mac is no easy task, especially a full-featured Twitter client. However, we've gotten to a point where while not complete, it is useable.

More: TechCrunch, BGR, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Verge, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, admin.imore.com, Current Editorials, TUAW and Lifehacker. Tweets: @parislemon

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Tweetbot for Mac: Public Alpha Review — Today, Tapbots released the first public alpha of Tweetbot for Mac. This is not a final review of the app: being in the development stage — albeit ready to be tested by the public — Tweetbot for Mac is still lacking several features that will be available …

More: Computerworld, Engadget, PandoDaily, Marco.org, TechnoBuffalo, Daring Fireball, The Mac Observer and everythingiCafe

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: Computerworld, Inquirer, BGR, Macworld, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, Gizmodo, The TechBlock, The Verge, Pocketables, Ubergizmo, TUAW, MacRumors, dailywireless.org and SlashGear

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: GigaOM, Business Insider and MarketingVox News & Trends

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: Fortune, The TechBlock, AllTwitter, Pulse2 Technology …, SocialTimes, Marketing Pilgrim and Betabeat. Tweets: @lexnfx

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: GeekWire, Inquirer, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz, The TechBlock, Android News, Rumours …, Pulse2 Technology …, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans and Macgasm

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: Business Insider, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena

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.

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck — Before he angered customers by raising prices, before he became the butt of Saturday Night Live satire for his Qwikster schemes, Netflix CEO Red Hastings alienated some of his key executives.

More: ZDNet and Webomatica

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: Gizmodo, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology … and Techie Buzz

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: Forbes, Business Insider, The Verge, Neowin, channelregister.co.uk, PadGadget, Pulse2 Technology … and AppleInsider

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Viacom, DirecTV talks fail; 26 channels go dark — Summary: Negotiations between Viacom and DirecTV have failed, forcing 26 channels off DirecTV's airwaves and leaving its customers to pay a 30 percent price hike if they want reconnected service. — Zack Whittaker — Follow @zackwhittaker

More: VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, DSLreports, CNNMoney.com, Plagiarism Today, fierceonlinevideo.com, Gawker, Blog.Viacom, The Verge, Engadget and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

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: Engadget, Black Hat, ZDNet, Microsoft Support, Pulse2 Technology …, Ubergizmo, Technet and TechWeekEurope UK

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

New York starts turning payphones into free Wi-fi hotspots — Payphones, those relics of the pre-cellphone era, may just get a new lease on life in New York. The city is testing a pilot program in which it installs free Wi-Fi on select payphone kiosks. — The hotspots are initially coming …

More: The Next Web and NYC GOV

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: Forbes, BetaNews, MobileSyrup.com, Pulse2 Technology …, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Engadget

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 Next Web, CNET, The Verge and The Verge

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 …

More: socalTECH.com

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 and TECHGEEK.com.au

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. It plans to expand the company and improving its technology, which allows companies to serve more relevant display ads.

More: VatorNews, AdAge and TechCrunch

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

NBC and Facebook to Announce Olympics Partnership — Users of Facebook, later this summer, will be reminded about NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games in London. And viewers of NBC's coverage, at the same time, will be nudged to talk about the Games on Facebook.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, NBC Bay Area, Daily Dot, the Econsultancy blog, Mashable! and Media Decoder. See also Mediagazer

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

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.

More: Wired, Forbes, Gotta Be Mobile, Mobile Magazine, ITProPortal, LAPTOP Magazine, Fast Company, iLounge, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, Gotta Be Mobile and Computerworld

Jon Gold / Computerworld:

Would you like to play a game? New AI teaches itself the rules — An AI that can watch two-minute videos of some simple board games being played, learn the rules, and then play against human opponents has been developed by Lukasz Kaiser, a researcher at Paris Diderot University.

More: Engadget

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says Company To Go Outside U.S. — Jack Dorsey, chief executive of mobile-payments startup Square Inc., said the company will expand and make its device available outside the U.S. — Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter Inc., was invited to speak on a panel …

More: CNET

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Facebook releases SDK 3.0 Beta with iOS 6 integration & new iOS Dev Center — Facebook today announced it is releasing its biggest iOS SDK update yet with the release of SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS, which also includes iOS 6 integration for native Facebook login. It is also rolling …

More: Facebook Developer Blog, The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch and Engadget

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

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Ouya games console blasts past $2.3m — The challenge now is to deliver on the expectations of its 19,000 early backers — US startup Ouya has attracted $2.3m (£1.47m) of pledges for its Android-based games console, less than 24 hours after launching its campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter.

More: VentureBeat, Wired, The Verge, VG247, Kickstarter Blog and Engadget

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, Bloomberg, Fast Company, The Verge, EU Press Room, Softpedia News, The Next Web and SlashGear

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