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August 6, 2012, 3:45 PM

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Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone version — Apple obviously did away with Google Maps in iOS 6, but another of the web giant's biggest properties won't be available as a default option, either. The latest beta version of iOS 6 has removed …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 6 beta 4, Xcode 4.5 Developer Preview 4 released to developers — Three weeks after it released iOS 6 beta 3, Apple has unleashed a fourth beta of the next-generation version of iOS to developers. The new beta is currently available as an over-the-air update to those running iOS 6 beta 3 …

More: BGR, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, IntoMobile, TUAW and MacNN

Adam Ewing / Bloomberg:

Nokia's Fight For AT&T Shelf Space Shows Hurdle For Lumia — When Angelo Amato, a former Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) customer, went to get a new smartphone at an AT&T Inc. (T) store in Manhattan last week, he never got a chance to even see the Finnish company's models.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia rumored to announce Windows Phone 8 handsets ‘as early as’ next month

More: BGR, Computerworld, PhoneArena and Softpedia News

David Christopher / ATT Blogs:

AT&T Mobile Share Plans Available August 23 — Our new AT&T Mobile Share plans will be available starting Thursday, Aug. 23. — As families prepare to send students back to school, many are looking for a convenient way to connect tablets and laptops or add new smartphones.

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government — Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared the worst when their beloved site disappeared from the Internet. Many thought that the site had been busted, but were eventually relieved to hear that it was ‘only’ a massive DDoS attack.

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, ZDNet, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Pulse2 Technology … and Softpedia News

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple to roll new Dock connector out across entire iOS product lineup this fall — iMore has learned that Apple intends to update their entire lineup of iOS device products to support the new, miniaturized Dock connector, and to do it as early the rumored September 12 special event this fall.

More: Examiner, BetaNews, msnbc.com, CNET, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Next Web, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, WebProNews, Apple Bitch, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN and iClarified

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Gets Googley Q&A Tool at Friday FYI and Uses It to Ask About Exec Accountability and Leaks — Well, it wasn't as tasty as free food this week at Yahoo, but in her second official all-hands meeting with employees — now reportedly called “Friday FYI” — new CEO Marissa Mayer rolled …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @qthrul

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Strategy Guru Jim Heckman Leaves

More: Pulse2 Technology …

Bloomberg:

Best Buy Founder Offers $26 A Share To Buy Retailer — Best Buy Co. founder Richard Schulze, who stepped down as chairman this year, offered to take the electronics retailer private at $24 to $26 a share, according to a copy of a letter he sent to the board today.

More: PC Magazine, business.time.com, GamePolitics blogs, TechSpot, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, CNET, Neowin, I4U News, WebProNews, MacNN and The Verge

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Mother of ‘Happy Mac’ graphic to testify in Apple v. Samsung — Susan Kare, the graphic designer who created some of the interface designs and best known graphics for the original Mac OS is scheduled to appear in the patent case. — Apple lawyers are reaching back into the company's history for help against Samsung.

More: 9to5Mac, Digits and The Next Web

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Samsung: Our smartphones are ‘distinctly different’

More: CNET, TechCrunch, CNET and Wall Street Journal

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Online Radio Service TuneIn Raises $16M From Sequoia, General Catalyst And More, Hits 40M Monthly Active Listeners — TuneIn, the popular online radio service, just announced that it has raised a $16 million funding round led by General Catalyst Partners. Other participants …

More: The Verge, New York Times, Guardian, Pulse2 Technology …, iClarified, PandoDaily, PE Hub Blog and AllThingsD

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 coming worldwide this month, UI shown off on YouTube — We've got a good few updates rolling in on the Galaxy Note 10.1 front today. For starters, Samsung has announced that the S-Pen equipped slate will available globally from August in WiFi and 3G varieties …

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Chrome rises: Google browser grabs 1/3 of the global market (StatCounter) — Remember when Google's Chrome browser overtook Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser for a week back in May? And next, for a full calendar month? — Well, Chrome is still on top …

More: USA Today, VentureBeat, Engadget, 9to5Google, Inquirer and WebProNews. Thanks:@robinwauters

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Nuance's ‘Nina’ to add Siri-like features to customer service apps on iOS and Android — After Nuance's aggressive push to get its voice recognition technology in front of consumers via first-party apps, the company is taking a small turn and offering it to third party apps.

More: Nuance, Opus Research, GigaOM, AllThingsD, BetaNews, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, Inquirer, IntoMobile, Internet2Go, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Boston Herald and Mashable!

Bloomberg:

Apple Needs Sharp With Foxconn Stake As New IPhone Nears — Taiwan billionaire Terry Gou built a manufacturing empire that assembles iPhones and iPads. His Foxconn Technology Group may be key to ensuring Sharp (6753) Corp.'s survival and a stable supply of components for Apple Inc. (AAPL)

More: Reuters, DigiTimes, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News and Phones Review

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Google records show book scanning was aimed at Amazon — Google has so far spent more than $180 million on book scanning and, at the outset of the project, one of its stated goals was to keep web searchers away from Amazon. — These are among the details set out in a new court filing by the Authors Guild …

Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

Baidu Fires 4 Suspected of Being Paid to Delete Content — BEIJING—Baidu Inc. fired four employees suspected of taking payments to delete material from its website, a common form of misconduct on the Chinese Internet. — Although the development is unlikely to have a major effect …

More: The Global Times, BBC, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, The Register and The Verge

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Microsoft commits to WebRTC - just not Google's version — Microsoft officially announced its own proposal for plugin-free real-time communication Monday. “Customizable, Ubiquitous Real Time Communication over the Web,” or short CU-RTC-Web, is Microsoft's contribution to the W3C WebRTC working group …

More: Business Insider, The Verge and Softpedia News

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Gorging on Mobile Industry Revenue — Samsung shipped about 50 million smartphones last quarter — about double the number Apple sold and, according to IDC, the largest number of units ever shipped by a handset vendor in a single quarter. But does it matter? — No.

More: CNET, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com and TodaysiPhone.com

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Microsoft's Office Store now open for business, productivity-boosting apps just a click away — You've known it was coming, and today the doors to Microsoft's Office Store were flung wide open. In short, it's a newfangled portal that enables avid Office and SharePoint users to search for, discover and install apps.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, MSDN Blogs and Neowin

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google Slaps $100M Golden Handcuffs On Wildfire To Retain Employees After $350M Acquisition — After buying social marketer Wildfire for $350 million, Google wants to ensure it keeps earning money and the employees don't bail. That's why Google set up $100 million in earn-outs and retention bonuses, multiple sources confirm.

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