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August 2, 2012, 3:40 PM

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Tim Kelly / Reuters:

Sharp to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple this month — (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. — “Shipments will start in August …

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Ballooning losses at Sharp lead to 5,000 job cuts

More: CNET, Agence France Presse, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Reuters and Engadget

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Apple seeks patent for Smart Cover with embedded secondary display — According to an application to the USPTO this morning, Apple believes it's possible to build a flexible display into an iPad cover in order to “greatly enhance” the functionality of the tablet itself.

More: PC Magazine, Patently Apple, VentureBeat, iLounge, GeekWire, newlaunches.com, MacRumors, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, CNET, Business Insider, TUAW, IntoMobile, Electronista, App Advice, Pocket-lint and Gotta Be Mobile

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell's Mixed Media Labs Board — Wednesday was an ugly day for infighting in the Valley, after Dalton Caldwell, a Silicon Valley veteran and serial entrepreneur, posted a withering missive to his personal blog on Wednesday, in which he accused Facebook …

More: TechCrunch, CNNMoney.com, Business Insider and PE Hub Blog

Tweets: @rmoney, @mattlynley and @joshuamcclure

Thanks:@mikeisaac

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Schadenfreude, Anyone? In Wake of Facebook Bullying Claims, Google+ Chief Vic Gundotra Woos Developers — When our enemies stumble publicly, some take the high road and steer clear of mentioning our adversary's folly. But for others, some things are just too good to pass up.

More: Los Angeles Times, Marketing Pilgrim, GigaOM, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Channel 9, CNET, Google+, Dalton Caldwell and Pulse2 Technology …

Matt Warman / Telegraph:

BlackBerry: other manufacturers could license our new BB10 platform — Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research in Motion, has told the Telegraph that manufacturers such as Sony or Samsung could licence the new BlackBerry operating system. — New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins introduced BlackBerry 10 in Florida

More: Telegraph, WebProNews, PC Pro, BGR, TechEye, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Forbes, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, IntoMobile, Neowin and MobileSyrup.com

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Drops Below $20: Worth Less Than What MSFT Offered For Yahoo In 2008? — Today, Facebook hit a new milestone, perhaps one that it won't be celebrating much: the stock went down past $20 a share. In fact, as this post is being written it's trading at $19.99.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, GigaOM, CNET and MarketWatch

Tweets: @felixsalmon and @jonerlichman

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Facebook Is Now Worth $58 Billion, Not The ‘$39 Billion’ Everyone Thinks...

Yoni Heisler / Network World:

Apple initially wanted an iPhone with shaped glass, deposition reveals — The Apple-Samsung trial has provided us with an absolute treasure trove of information regarding Apple's iPhone prototypes. Below is why Apple initially shied away from shaped glass and why an iPhone prototype resembling …

More: SlashGear, Business Insider, Gizmodo, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, The Next Web and everythingiCafe. Thanks:@ionapple1

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills — A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants' legal costs. Introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) …

More: Betabeat, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, GeekWire and ZDNet

Emil Protalinski / CNET:

Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users — Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. — Follow @emilprotalinski — Does she have a Facebook account? — Last week, during …

More: BGR, Mobile Marketing Watch, digitaltrends.com, BBC, Computerworld, BBC, The Next Web, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, BetaNews and SlashGear

Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Facebook Stories: A Facebook Site With Collected Stories and Infographics — A lot of people — close to 950 million, in fact — are sharing their lives on Facebook. As it turns out, Facebook thinks many of them have some interesting stories. Some of them are so interesting that they could be part …

More: CNET, paidContent, Business Insider, Facebook Newsroom, The Next Web, Fast Company, The Verge, WebProNews and SlashGear

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Dead Trigger goes free on iOS, where piracy is apparently also a problem — Madfinger Games, the studio behind mobile first-person shooter Dead Trigger, earned a fair bit of notoriety recently by making its game free on Android in response to what it called an “unbelievably high” piracy rate.

More: BetaNews, Pocketables, PhoneArena and Gamezebo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IDC: Apple's iPad Grew Q2 Tablet Share To 68% As It Braces For Windows 8, Amazon And Nexus Competition — After Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire tablet last autumn, a lot of observers thought it could prove to be the competition to Apple's iPad that other Android tablets had so far failed to deliver.

More: VatorNews, The Verge, GeekWire, Computerworld, BetaNews, 9to5Google, IDC, GigaOM, Macworld, Engadget and Mashable!

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

AT&T acquires NextWave Wireless for $25m up front, to boost mobile Internet capacity — US telecommunications powerhouse AT&T has announced that it has agreed to acquire NextWave Wireless, which holds key licenses in the Wireless Communication Services (WCS) and Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) bands.

More: The Verge, eWeek, Business Wire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Reuters, Know Your Cell, Forbes, CNET, ExtremeTech, MobileBurn.com, Electronista, SlashGear and TechCrunch

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

3-week old Jelly Bean hits 0.8% Android device adoption, as Ice Cream Sandwich reaches 15.9% — It's been just over a month since Google officially announced Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and barely three weeks since the first rollout, but already the latest flavor of Android is installed …

More: CNET, Network World, Engadget, PC World, Inquirer, BetaNews, PhoneArena, The Verge, IntoMobile, GigaOM, BGR, PC Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile and ZDNet

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Getaround, Flush With $13.9M, Will Now Pay You $1,000 Per Month to Rent Your Car Full-time — Getaround, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, has raised $13.9 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.

More: Business Insider, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable and SlashGear

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Parking Payment Startup QuickPay Raises $3.5M, Powerset Founder Barney Pell Becomes CEO — QuickPay, a startup that helps drivers find and pay for parking, has brought on a new CEO — Barney Pell, the founder of semantic search company Powerset (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for a reported $100 million).

More: Internet2Go, The Technology Chronicles, Fortune, AllThingsD, VatorNews and BetaKit

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check — David Cheriton wrote a $100,000 check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Today that check is now worth more than $1 billion in Google shares. (Martin Klimek / Getty Images)

Thanks:@gerryshih

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] — Google has just bought social marketing software developer Wildfire, which lets brands serve marketing and ad campaigns on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn.

More: ZDNet

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Samsung starts mass-producing 4x faster mobile flash memory, kickstarts our phones and tablets — Samsung isn't content to leave fast NAND flash memory to traditional solid-state drives. Its Pro Class 1500 promises a big jolt to the performance of frequently pokey smartphone and tablet storage.

More: 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Forbes, Inquirer, SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, InfoWorld, DailyTech, Phones Review, PhoneArena, MobileBurn.com and Ubergizmo

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

With Three Key Exits, Facebook's Top Talent Departures Continue — The question on everyone's minds after Facebook's May IPO — How long till the brain drain starts? — Apparently, not that long. Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships at Facebook, announced on Wednesday via Facebook that he will soon leave the company.

More: ZDNet, internetretailer.com, NBC Bay Area, Marketing Pilgrim and The Register

Digits:

Past Apple-Twitter Investment Talks Were Tied to Product Integration — Apple Inc. floated the idea of investing in Twitter Inc. as the companies discussed integrating the social service into Apple's mobile operating system last year, according to people familiar with the discussions.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, Apple Bitch, AppleTell, Macgasm and iPhone

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Cisco expands its board of directors with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Kristina Johnson — Networking equipment giant Cisco this morning announced that Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive officer of enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com, has joined its board of directors.

More: Market Wire, VentureBeat, PC World, SiliconANGLE, Pulse2 Technology …, ZDNet, Business Insider and Bloomberg

Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:

BREAKING: David Pogue Has Lost His iPhone (UPDATE #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10) — New York Times technology writer David Pogue has lost his iPhone. He has posted a screenshot of where it might be on Lockerz.com, though. Won't anyone help him find it? Or help him sign up for PhotoBucket?

More: 9to5Mac, Forbes and BuzzFeed

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Licenses Rovi's Program Guide Patents For Its New Fiber TV Service — One of the main surprises of Google's Fiber announcement in Kansas City last week was that the company also plans to provide its own TV service to the residents of its ‘fiberhoods.’ There are some issues …

More: ZDNet, Rovi, ZDNet, AllThingsD, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

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