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Aaron Brady / Facebook Developer Blog:
Introducing the App Center  —  Today, we're announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps.  The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.  —  In the coming weeks …
Rafe Needleman / CNET:
Facebook App Center: More showcase than store, actually  —  Or, how Facebook makes money and advances its own interest by helping Apple sell apps on its own store.  It's a surprisingly clever move.  —  The Facebook App Center will “sell” iOS apps.  —  The app store model is winning the evolutionary battle for software businesses.
More: PC World
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Accused of Hindering Firefox Browser  —  The company behind the Firefox Web browser says Microsoft Corp. is limiting its ability to distribute its browser on some hardware being designed for the next version of the Windows operating system.  —  Mozilla Corp.'s contention focuses …
Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Google+: a mobile app with sense and soul  —  Sharing is deeply sensory.  From cooking a favorite meal to getting together with friends, it's the smells and the stories and the smiles that make human connections so essential.  With Google+ we want to extend these moments online …
Bloomberg:
Deutsche Telekom Said to Discuss MetroPCS Deal for T-Mobile  —  Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is discussing a merger of its T-Mobile USA unit with MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) as it reviews options for the customer-losing business, according to people familiar with the matter.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Was Zynga's Deal To Buy OMGPOP That Disastrous?  Here's Some Perspective.  —  Draw Something, the game that could do no wrong now seems like it can do little right, at least according to the blogosphere.  There's been a string of stories from virtually everyone saying that the OMGPOP acquisition is …
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
What's Behind the Drop in Kindle Fire Shipments?  —  Once hailed as the first true rival to the iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire no longer seems to be much of a threat to Apple's tablet.  The Fire had no impact on Apple's March-quarter iPad sales.  Indeed, during the company's second-quarter earnings call …
More: ZDNet
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Pirate Bay Scolds Anonymous Hackers For Cyberattacks On Its Behalf  —  Some hackers aim to free the flow of information, while others aim to stifle it.  The Pirate Bay has taken a moment to remind the hacker group Anonymous of the difference.  —  Anonymous has been launching a series …
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
SocialCode hires 15 employees from Digg.com  —  SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., announced Thursday that it has hired 15 members from the engineering team at the social news site Digg.  —  Digg was once one of Silicon Valley's most promising start-ups.
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Apple releases OS X 10.7.4, FileVault bug gets addressed  —  Hey, Mac users: are you ready for an update?  Because Apple is dropping its latest OS version on your heads.  10.7.4 just hit, and it brings with it a number of small fixes to help improve things like security, stability and compatibility for your system.
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Amazon launches Vegas trade show for AWS developers, users  —  Amazon is looking more like old-school IT vendor every day.  In November, it will host its first-ever partner and customer conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas.  The web services giant posted a “save the date” for the three-day AWS re:invent show on its blog Wednesday.
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
In a SoHo Lab, HuffPo Mafia rekindles the old magic  —  After the Huffington Post was acquired by AOL last year, HuffPo chief technology officer Paul Berry estimated 15 percent of his time was spent dealing with corporate politics.  A year later, that figure had zoomed to 85 percent …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings  —  The old FBI copyright warning gets an upgrade.  —  You know those FBI warning messages that appear at the beginning of DVDs and Blu-ray discs?  They're getting an upgrade—and they're multiplying.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Amends IPO S-1 To Admit Advertising Biz Hurt By Increasing Shift To Mobile, Note RSUS Grant  —  Facebook has just filed a sixth amendment to its S-1 filing to IPO in order to provide more transparency about how the shift of its user base from the web to mobile is causing …
Heather Kelly / VentureBeat:
Meet 500 Startups' new batch of startups  —  Startup accelerator 500 Startups announced its fourth batch of companies on Wednesday, a fun group that includes a necktie subscription service, a Dropbox-based collaboration tool for creatives, a consumer-action site currently trying to take down Big Cable …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Evernote launches Yinxiang Biji, its dedicated service for China  —  Evernote has announced that it has launched a dedicated service for Chinese users, Yinxiang Biji, which will run completely separate of Evernote and its existing Chinese-language offering.  —  Last week, CEO Phil Libin revealed …
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
A Circle of Tech: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up  —  FACEBOOK LEGACIES Matt Cohler, left, employee No. 7 at Facebook, is now a partner at Benchmark Capital.  Adam D'Angelo, a former chief technology officer at Facebook, is a founder of Quora.  Ruchi Sanghvi was Facebook's first female engineer and helped start Cove.
More: Betabeat
Kunal / Sammy Hub:
Galaxy Note Android 4.0 update rolling out now  —  It seems Samsung has started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update for Galaxy Note (N7000).  Few users have started receiving notification for the firmware upgrade that will bump the Android to version 4.0 and bring in the Premium Suite apps.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Final Nail In The Joost Coffin: Adconion Rebrands, Folds Video Service Into Smartclip  —  Looks like the final frame has been reached for Joost, the online video service originally started by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and then eventually sold to the Adconion Media Group …

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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
The North American box office records its biggest weekend ever with ~$430M across movies, driven by Spider-Man: Brand New Day's $355M and The Odyssey's $51M

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens seeks ~$50M to launch a rival news series with Scott Pelley and other fired staffers; a source close to Owens denies it

Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

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