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July 11, 2013, 4:44 AM

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Reuters:
Judge rules Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books  —  (Reuters) - In a sweeping rejection of Apple Inc's strategy for selling electronic books on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that the company conspired with five major publishers to raise e-book prices.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline  —  Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's U.S. PC shipments decline more than overall market if you don't count iPads but do count Windows tablets  —  Gartner is today out with a report detailing its estimates for Q2 2013 global and U.S. PC shipments.  Globally, the industry average for shipments is down 10.9%.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Interview: T-Mobile's John Legere on iPhone Sales, the Carrier's Bold Upgrade Program, and Continuing to Shake Things Up  —  T-Mobile's biggest news on Wednesday is the introduction of a new program that will let customers upgrade their phones as often as twice a year.
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests  —  SUNNYVALE — In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Life360, The Family Locator With More Users Than Foursquare, Raises A $10 Million Series B  —  Life360, the mobile family locator utility whose recent claim to fame was outgrowing Foursquare in terms of its user base (the service now boasts over 40 million versus Foursquare's 30 million+) …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
How Apple changed the world again: the App Store turns five  —  Apple's mobile software marketplace kickstarted the post-PC era — so why was Steve Jobs so against it?  —  Five years ago today, the App Store opened for business.  On its first day, the store offered 500 applications …
Andrew Chen:
Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier.  Here's why.  —  The “classic” growth formula for mobile is broken  —  Once upon a time, the formula for getting mobile traction was something like this:  — Build something insanely great  — Get Apple/Google to feature you, alongside a big PR launch!

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