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August 6, 2012, 1:05 PM

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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 — 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.

More: 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.

More: Engadget, PC Magazine, Computerworld, CNET, MacRumors, BGR, PhoneArena, GadgeTell, IntoMobile, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, Android News, Rumours …, DSLreports, iDownloadBlog.com and iLounge

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: The Verge, ZDNet and Gizmodo

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.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Gets Googley Q&A Tool at Friday FYI and Uses It to Ask About Exec Accountability and Leaks

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

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 …

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: VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, Neowin, WebProNews, ZDNet, CNET, BGR, I4U News, The Verge and AllThingsD

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 …

More: Business Insider and BuzzFeed

Tadhg Kelly / TechCrunch:

Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?)

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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, Guardian, New York Times, PandoDaily, PE Hub Blog, AllThingsD and VentureBeat

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Said To Buy Bleacher Report For Under $200M — Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s Turner Broadcasting System division acquired the Bleacher Report website for less than $200 million, bolstering its online sports coverage, a person familiar with the deal said.

More: paidContent, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

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: 9to5Mac, Reuters, DigiTimes, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, Softpedia News and Phones Review

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.

More: Mac Performance Guide, MacDailyNews and TUAW

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