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August 16, 2012, 2:55 PM

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square Debuts Monthly Pricing Option For Small Businesses With Zero Swiping Fees — On the heels of announcing a mega-deal with Starbucks, mobile payments processing company Square is announcing another piece of key news—specialized, lower pricing per swipe for small businesses.

More: Marketing Land, The Verge, CNET, Fortune, BetaKit, Business Insider, The Next Web, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Mashable! and NYT Bits

Tweets: @jack, @hunterwalk, @alex and @zamosta

Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:

[Updated: Screenshots] Google Is Gearing Up To Finally Introduce Play Store Gift Cards And A Wishlist [APK Teardown] — A new Google Play Store v3.8.15 apk started rolling out to Android devices today, but upon running through its UI, I was unable to uncover anything different from the versions before that.

Phil Nickinson / Android Central:

Google Play gift cards are real - and here's what they look like — We've already seen the Google Play Store app getting prepped for gift cards — and now we've scored the cards themselves. (Or, at least, a look at the outer wrapping.) We've been slipped a few pics of $10 and $25 gift cards …

More: Engadget, CNET, GadgeTell, TechnoBuffalo, Android News, Rumours …, Know Your Cell, Pocketables, The Verge, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, MobileSyrup.com and AndroidGuys. Thanks:@philnickinson

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Instagram 3.0 bets on location with Photo Map, adds infinite scrolling — Looking forward, Systrom envisions an Instagram that instantly pipes photos into one location-tagged stream for concertgoers, or one stream of photos tagged in front of the Eiffel Tower. “All sorts of cool things hapen once people use geodata,” he said.

More: CNET, Los Angeles Times, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Gizmodo, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Engadget, NYT Bits, IntoMobile, GigaOM, SlashGear, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews and App Advice

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Why Apple really bought AuthenTec: It wanted “new technology” for upcoming products, and quickly — On July 27, seemingly out of nowhere, security company AuthenTec announced in a regulatory filing that it had agreed to a $356 million acquisition offer from Apple, making it one of the Apple's biggest mergers in its 36 year history.

More: Ars Technica, GigaOM, MacRumors, SlashGear, Edible Apple, CNET, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe and iDownloadBlog.com

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Lenovo dings Microsoft Surface: We'll provide better hardware — Lenovo executives believe it can beat Microsoft on hardware and claims not to be worried about Microsoft's Surface tablet. — During Lenovo's first fiscal quarter 2013 earnings call, executives didn't mince words in attacking Microsoft's Surface strategy.

More: GeekWire, Fortune, AllThingsD, ZDNet and The Verge

Bloomberg:

Lenovo Earnings Rise 30% As PC Maker Boosts Market Share

More: SiliconANGLE, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and Engadget

Wall Street Journal:

Apple's New Front in Battle for TV — Apple Inc. is in talks with some of the biggest U.S. cable operators about letting consumers use an Apple device as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to people familiar with the matter. — The talks represent Apple's …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple's New TV Plan: Same TV, Different Box

More: The Next Web

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Yes, Apple Is In Discussions With Cable Operators, And Everyone Has Known This For Months

More: ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Forbes, Business Insider, Computerworld, PC Magazine and DSLreports

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Three years later, deleting your photos on Facebook now actually works — It has been more than three years since Ars first started covering Facebook's inability to remove “deleted” photos from its servers, but this particular saga appears to be coming to an end.

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, BuzzFeed, WebProNews and Gizmodo

Tweets: @ashk4n, @ejacqui and @clint

Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits:

Braintree, a Payments Company, Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million — The mobile payments war continues to escalate. — Braintree, a payments company that supplies technology to process credit card transactions on a mobile phone, said it purchased Venmo, a start-up that lets people send and receive money to their friends.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Betabeat and Business Insider

Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Dish Network Said To Plan Nationwide Satellite Broadband — Dish Network Corp. is preparing to introduce a nationwide broadband-Internet service using a satellite from sister company EchoStar Corp. (SATS), according to three people familiar with the situation.

More: VentureBeat, DSLreports, The Tech Block, TechSpot, Engadget, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, Lake City Reporter and TelecompetitorTelecompetitor

Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com:

Facebook stock slumps 5% as insiders get first chance to sell — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Facebook's life as a public company has been a nightmare from day one, and the pain continued on Thursday as some company insiders got their first chance to dump shares.

More: Ars Technica, Forbes, VentureBeat, DailyFinance.com, Reuters, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Datamation.com, Forbes, Reuters, Telegraph, Yahoo! Finance and MarketBeat

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Apple bashes Amazon and proposed ebook settlement — In a memo filed with the Southern District of New York this afternoon (PDF; embedded below), Apple argues that the Department of Justice's proposed settlement with three book publishers forces Apple to tear up existing contracts.

More: TUAW, AppleInsider, PC World, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Pulse2 Technology … and Fortune

Zack Whittaker / CNET:

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange granted asylum in Ecuador — Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by the Ecuadorian government after taking refuge in its London embassy in June. — LONDON — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by the Ecuadorian government …

More: WikiLeaks, VentureBeat, New York Times, BBC, Reuters, ZDNet and Examiner. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Diaspora's Next Act: Social Remixing Site Makr.io — If you were to come across a group of people sitting in a room together, all with their own laptops out, sending each other jokes online, you might think that was a little weird, right? — “Antisocial” is one word that comes to mind.

More: Betabeat. Tweets: @kessler and @andythegiant

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

‘Friends’ can share your Facebook profile with the government, court rules — A federal judge has ruled that investigators can go through your Facebook profile if one of your friends gives them permission to do so. The decision, which is part of a New York City racketeering trial …

More: Betabeat, Gizmodo, Technology & …, WebProNews and Daily Dot. Thanks:@gnagesh

John Letzing / Wall Street Journal:

Zynga Puts Real Money Into Gambling Lobby — Zynga Inc. has begun investing in state and federal lobbying efforts around gambling with real money, even as the social gaming firm predicts the U.S. won't be an initial market for the potentially lucrative new line of business.

More: Inside Social Games, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, Bloomberg, SocialTimes, GamePolitics blogs and Gizmodo

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nokia sales chief warns Samsung to ‘take note’ of next generation Lumia — Now that Nokia has revealed when its big Windows Phone 8 launch event will be, it's time for the company to start building up the hype and it's doing it by taking aim at its biggest competitor: Samsung.

More: CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, WMPoweruser, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, Know Your Cell, FierceWireless, The Nokia Blog, MobileSyrup.com, BGR, Softpedia News, Guardian, Pocket-lint and Inquirer. Tweets: @cweberatnokia

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Dunkin Donuts gets into the mobile payment game — Dunkin Donuts is following in the footsteps of rival Starbucks with the launch of its first mobile app, allowing users to pay for coffee and donuts with their smartphone. The app, available for iOS and Android, creates a virtual Dunkin Donuts card …

More: The Verge, Betabeat, 9to5Mac, multivu.com, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW and BostInno

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

The Google+ app for iOS opens web URLs in Chrome if installed, how soon until all Google apps do that? — Earlier today, Google released an update to its Google+ app for iOS, expanding support for Hangouts. But tucked in there is a one-line update not which could have some interesting implications …

More: Engadget, The Verge, Lifehacker, Macgasm, GadgeTell and fiercemobilecontent.com. Thanks:@jfalconer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple says Retail Stores still hiring, recent staffing changes were a ‘mistake’, are being reversed — Apple says that recent reports about Retail Store employee hours being cut and hiring events being halted were misleading. Still, it says that some staffing changes were made, but that they were a mistake.

More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Dow Jones, The Loop, ifoAppleStore and BGR

Tweets: @sammywalrusiv and @mpanzarino

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