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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 — Microsoft is expected to finalize its Windows Phone 8 software in September and recent reports suggest that Nokia may announce its first next-generation devices at the same time.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
eBay Is Launching A Same-Day Shipping Service Called eBay Now — eBay today invited some San Francisco users to a new same-day shipping service called eBay Now. An iOS app, eBay Now's beta will let SF residents get $5 same-day shipping on products from local stores. It's now signing up users for an “exclusive beta”.
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| 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.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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| 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.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Strategy Guru Jim Heckman Leaves — Here's another Yahoo executive departure in the wake of Marissa Mayer's arrival: Jim Heckman, the company's SVP of strategy, is out. — This one was very much expected, as Heckman was closely tied to former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn.| 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.
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, Mashable! and Boston Herald
| Economist: |
Huawei: The company that spooked the world — The success of China's telecoms-equipment behemoth makes spies and politicians elsewhere nervous — BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake … | Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga's Rocky Shift to Mobile — To turn around its flagging business, Zynga Inc. is betting big on mobile games and creating a network that connects mobile-game players. — But how to carry out that shift remains up for debate. — At Zynga's San Francisco headquarters last month …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked MPAA Memo Reveals TV-Shack Press Strategy — Last year Richard O'Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that listed user-submitted link to TV-shows. — The UK student has since fought a looming extradition to the US, but thus far without success.
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Inquirer, Softpedia News and Ars Technica
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Chinese search giant Baidu fires three employees arrested for deleting forum posts for cash — After reports of the incident leaked out over the weekend, Chinese search engine leader Baidu confirmed that local police have arrested three now former employees for allegedly accepting bribes to delete posts from its TieBa forum service.
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Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, The Global Times, The Verge, Softpedia News, ZDNet, memeburn and The Register
| David Morgenstern / ZDNet: |
Mountain Lion's Save As still a disaster — Summary: Changes in the behavior of Save As in OS X Lion and now Mountain Lion make problems for longtime users of Macs. — David Morgenstern — Many sites reported the “happy” news that OS X Mountain Lion restores the Save As command, which was removed in OS X Lion.
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Mac Performance Guide and TUAW
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Succès De Scandale: Olympics Suspension Fiasco Drove Signups — There's no such thing as bad publicity. A source tells TechCrunch that mainstream news mentions of the temporary suspension of an NBC Olympics coverage tweeter / hater gave Twitter's signup rate a boost.| Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters: |
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