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July 12, 2012, 12:25 AM

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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: CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Macgasm, BGR, PC Magazine, TUAW, Current Editorials, admin.imore.com, Apple Bitch, iDownloadBlog.com, Lifehacker, parislemon, The Verge, MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @parislemon

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Tweetbot for Mac: Public Alpha Review

More: PandoDaily, Marco.org, Engadget, Computerworld, The Mac Observer, App Advice, TechnoBuffalo and everythingiCafe

Reuters:

Judge refuses to block Diller's Aereo online TV venture — (Reuters) - A federal judge has rejected a bid by major U.S. broadcasters to stop Aereo Inc, an online television venture backed by billionaire Barry Diller, to stop rebroadcasting some of its programming over the Internet.

More: Ars Technica, paidContent, Media Decoder, TUAW, CNET, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Mashable!, Lost Remote, Hollywood Reporter, Betabeat, Engadget, Associated Press and The Verge. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

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: eWeek, InfoWorld, Computerworld, TUAW, The TechBlock, Engadget, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org, Ubergizmo, Pocketables, SlashGear, Pulse2 Technology … and BGR

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Apple's upgrade page confirms older Macs can't run Mountain Lion

More: AppleInsider and Computerworld

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes surprise appearance at Sun Valley retreat — Apple CEO Tim Cook surprised the crowd in Sun Valley, Idaho, this morning by showing up at the Allen & Co. annual retreat to attend a session called “Iran vs. Israel.” — This was Cook's first time at the high-powered event that draws media and tech moguls.

More: DealBook, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN and 9to5Mac

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Square CEO Jack Dorsey Says Company To Go Outside U.S.

More: Pulse2 Technology … and CNET

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 …

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 …

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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: The Verge, ZDNet and Webomatica

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

I Want It Today — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — How Amazon's ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. — Amazon has long enjoyed an unbeatable price advantage over its physical rivals.

More: The Verge

Coleen Baik / Twitter Blog:

Overhauling mobile.twitter.com from the ground up — Twitter is all about making real-time information available to everyone, everywhere. In order to reach every person on the planet we recently released an update to mobile.twitter.com for feature phones and older browsers.

More: Marketing Land, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and WebProNews

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Who's afraid of Google fiber? Time Warner for starters. — Apparently, Time Warner Cable and I have something in common — we both want to figure out the details on Google's fiber-to-the-home deployment in Kansas City. Time Warner Cable, one of the ISPs providing broadband access in Kansas City …

More: Betabeat and The Verge

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Finally Redesigns Events, Adds Calendar and List Views So You Don't Miss Birthdays — Facebook has finally redesigned Events so you don't miss another party, birthday, or cool get-together your friends are going to. Today the site launches the Events Calendar so you can see what coming …

More: VatorNews, CNET, The Next Web, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, Facebook, AllFacebook, The Verge, Mashable!, Gizmodo and Pulse2 Technology …

Brad Linder / Liliputing:

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ported to the Kindle Fire — The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon's content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire since the day it was released …

More: BGR, CNET, Droid Life, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, Android Phone Fans, Engadget and PhoneArena

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Dropbox gifts early users free premium subscriptions — Dropbox is thanking its most loyal customers by no longer charging them for their premium subscriptions. It started emailing its “earliest Dropbox users” recently to inform them of the news: … It seems that a small group of early users …

More: Macgasm

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post — No need to wonder if your family saw that reminder about dinner or if co-workers noticed you uploaded a PowerPoint, as Facebook Groups will soon display a count and a list of names of who saw each post. For example: “Seen by 2″, and when hovered “Josh Constine |

More: Facebook Newsroom, Betabeat, The Verge, Marketing Land, The Next Web, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, WebProNews, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim and Pulse2 Technology …

Stuart Dredge / Apps blog:

Ouya Android games console blasts past $2.3m funding on Kickstarter — 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 …

More: PC World, Kickstarter Blog, ForeverGeek, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, Techdirt, Gamasutra, Mashable!, Mobile Magazine, IntoMobile and VG247. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / BetaKit:

Hulu and Netflix Challenger Zeewe TV Races to One Million Users — Brazilian company Movile today announced that its recent social video platform venture Zeewe TV has just passed the one million user mark. Zeewe TV is essentially a streaming video sharing service complete with premium paid content …

More: App Advice, The Next Web and GigaOM

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: AllThingsD, directvpromise.com, TechCrunch, Digits, GigaOM, Network World, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, Plagiarism Today, CNNMoney.com, fierceonlinevideo.com, Gawker, Pulse2 Technology …, DSLreports and Blog.Viacom. See also Mediagazer

Zach Epstein / BGR:

New service offers wireless data to European travelers for just $5 per day — Staying connected while traveling abroad is a painful endeavor, at best. Roaming with your U.S.-based wireless device can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and sourcing local handsets or foreign SIMs for an unlocked phone is often a hassle.

More: IntoMobile, GadgeTell and The Verge

Kellan / Laughing Meme:

oldtweets is a search engine for the first year of Twitter. — A bunch of folks asked about the how. The Twitter API provides a method for fetching a tweet by ID. So to build an index of the first year of Twitter you need call the api for each ID in the range of IDs 1-20,000,000. 20 million API calls …

More: The Next Web, AllTwitter, Business Insider, The Verge and BuzzFeed

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: Computerworld, Business Insider, The Next Web, Edible Apple, Business Insider, Gizmodo and Fortune

Giancarlo Valdes / VentureBeat:

Mobile industry bigwigs Tapjoy and Kontagent form partnership (exclusive) — It's the Ross and Rachel of mobile partnerships. — Tapjoy, an advertising and monetization platform for mobile devices, is partnering with Kontagent, an analytics provider for app developers, in a move that could usher in …

More: Inside Mobile Apps

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: Local Onliner, Marketing Pilgrim, Pulse2 Technology …, Techie Buzz and Business Insider

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Kantar: Android Now Accounting For More Than Half Of All Smartphone Sales Across U.S., Europe and Oz — Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, a market analysis division of WPP, has today published its latest figures on mobile device sales across a number of key markets, and it looks like something …

More: CNET and My Nokia Blog

Lisa Wang / Taipei Times:

MediaTek, Twitter announce strategic partnership — MediaTek Inc (..), the nation's biggest handset chipmaker, yesterday said it has formed a global strategic partnership with Twitter Inc to allow users of feature phones powered by MediaTek's chips better access to Twitter's social networking services …

More: PC Magazine, PR Newswire, BGR India, The Next Web, SlashGear, Unwired View and MediaNama

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Kinvey Raises $5 Million For Mobile And Web App Backend As A Service — Kinvey, the TechStars startup out of Boston that provides a unique backend as a service (BaaS), has closed $5 million in a new Series-A round of financing, led by Avalon Ventures with Atlas Venture following on.

More: The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb

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