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Bob Quinn / AT&T Public Policy Blog:
Enabling FaceTime Over Our Mobile Broadband Network  —  Last week, we confirmed plans to make FaceTime available over our mobile broadband network for our AT&T Mobile Share data plan customers.  —  FaceTime is a video chat application that has been pre-loaded onto every AT&T iPhone since the introduction of iPhone 4.
The United States Department of Justice:
Federal Courts Order Seizure of Three Website Domains Involved in Distributing Pirated Android Cell Phone Apps
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
PayPal Trumps Square's Deal With Starbucks by Partnering With Discover  —  Under a new partnership being announced with Discover, PayPal is super-sizing the number of merchant locations it will accepted at in the U.S. to more than seven million.  —  “The whole industry has been looking for a landmark …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Verizon Is Said To Offer Nokia Windows 8 Phone This Year  —  Verizon Wireless plans to sell a new Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj phone with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 software this year, marking the first time it has released a Windows device since May 2011, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Sven Grundberg / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Launch in Canada  —  STOCKHOLM—Spotify is set to launch its popular music-streaming service in Canada, and has further plans to possibly expand into Asia and South America, according to the Anglo-Swedish company's recently published annual accounts.
Roger Cheng / CNET:
RIM: Next server will work with all BlackBerry devices  —  Research in Motion says its BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 will be able to support existing devices, the PlayBook, and BlackBerry 10 phones.  —  Research in Motion said today that the next iteration of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server …
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
T-Mobile adding unlimited data plans with no throttling on September 5th  —  Among US national carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint have long been the champions of unlimited data even as Verizon and AT&T have clamped down in recent years — but for T-Mobile customers, there's always been a catch …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
How ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Social Media Are Upending Music  —  For decades, the song of the summer would emerge each year following a pattern as predictable as the beach tides.  —  Pop radio would get it rolling before school let out, and soon the song — inevitably one with a big …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Officially Launches “Sponsored Results” Search Ads  —  While it hasn't been publicly announced, Facebook is now telling marketers the Sponsored Results search typeahead ad unit it began testing last month “launches today”.  It lets marketers target users searching for specific apps …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
47% of US consumers feel they don't need 4G LTE  —  Though Apple's next iPhone is widely expected to have high-speed 4G long-term evolution connectivity, a new survey has found that nearly half of American consumers feel they don't need 4G LTE.  —  The details come from a survey …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Pulls ‘Genius’ TV Ads from YouTube and Apple.com  —  Apple has removed the controversial ‘Genius’ TV spots from its YouTube channel and from the Apple.com marketing page for the Mac.  The ads were poorly received with some critics asking if it was a good idea to make potential customers seem clueless.
Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits:
YouTube Will Now Let Mobile Users Choose Whether to Watch Ads  —  People often visit Web sites on their mobile phones as much or more than they do on computers.  But that leaves Web companies with a challenge: how to make money on phones, where there is less space for advertisements and people have less patience for them?
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
CouchSurfing, now a ‘social travel network’, gets a $15M boost  —  CouchSurfing, a website that connects travelers with friendly, foreign strangers willing to share their home, is proving to be profitable business.  Today, the company raised an additional $15 million, bringing its total funds raised in the past year to $22.6 million.
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Web Sites Accused of Collecting Data on Children  —  A coalition of nearly 20 children's advocacy, health and public interest groups plans to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, asserting that some online marketing to children by McDonald's and four …
David Meyer / GigaOM:
Google lashes out at German copyright ‘threat’  —  Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories.  —  Well, actually that's slightly inaccurate: the draft law would make search engines pay …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Bing Now Surfaces Quora Answers In Its Social Sidebar  —  Microsoft and Quora just announced a new partnership that will bring content from the popular Q&A site to Bing's social sidebar.  Unlike some of Bing's other integrations with social networks like Facebook, the Quora integration focuses less …
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook debuts two-pane Messages view, adds keyboard shortcuts  —  Facebook today announced the launch of a new two-paned view for its Messages page that consolidates all of your conversations onto one screen.  Facebook's new Messages view takes a page out of Apple's book …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Opera Q2: Sales Up 32% To $52.1M; Mobile Surges, Desktop Flat, Google Deal Stays Put  —  Opera Software, the Norway-based Internet browser company, today reported Q2 2012 earnings that solidified the company's strength in mobile, and ongoing weakness in desktop usage in the face of competition …

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
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