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August 6, 2012, 2:05 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: BGR, Computerworld 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: The Verge, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology … and Softpedia News

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 …

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

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.

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 …

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, iClarified, PandoDaily, PE Hub Blog, AllThingsD and silicontap.com

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: Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com

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?)

Tweets: @jussil, @tim_oneil, @pyplatini and @daveg

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, MacRumors and IntoMobile

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

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

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

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: MSDN Blogs

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

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Verizon teams up with Microsoft to offer Office 365 to businesses — Verizon Wireless is making a strong bid for small businesses today with the announcement that it's offering Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity suite. — Verizon made the announcement together with Microsoft at a small press gathering in New York City today.

More: ZDNet

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