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12:30 PM ET, July 13, 2011

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Frustrated by Apple's Long Approval Process, WhitePages Goes Android First With Latest App  —  When WhitePages launches its Localicious app on Wednesday, it will be in Android Market rather than in the iPhone App Store.  —  There's a simple reason for that.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Android's Co-Founder: Developers Can Now Afford to Wait on iPhone  —  As recently as six months ago, the founder of Android was recommending that start-ups focus on the iPhone first and then move to Android.  —  That's because Rich Miner's day job these days is heading the East Coast wing …
Paul Montoy-Wilson / Google Mobile Blog:
A new Android Market for phones, with books and movies  —  Recently, we've been hard at work improving Android Market to give you new ways to find great applications and games, purchase books, and rent movies.  Today, we're releasing a new version of Android Market which makes all of these available on phones (Android 2.2 and higher).
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Google updating Android Market app on phones, adding Movies and Books tabs (video)
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
RIM promises seven new BlackBerry smartphones in coming months  —  RIM just finished wrapping up their annual shareholders meeting.  The bit of info mentioned of most interest to everyday consumers was that seven BlackBerry smartphones are due to land in the next couple of months.
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Has Six Months to ‘Prove’ Need for Joint Chairman-CEO Role
Discussion: BGR, MobileBurn.com and GMSV
Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:
How Google+ is built  —  If you're curious about all things Google+, you're in luck.  The project's technical lead, Google engineer Joseph Smarr, is currently hosting an online question and answer session about the service — and he has already shared a number of details about Google+'s development …
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
People really hate the Netflix price hike  —  Subscribers have been up in arms since Netflix announced a changed pricing structure earlier today that will raise the price for a combined DVD and streaming subscription from $10 to $16 a month.  The company is also offering DVD-only and streaming …
Facebook Mobile:
Facebook for Every Phone  —  At Facebook, we work to ensure people around the world have a great Facebook experience no matter where they are or how they access our site.  Today, we're launching the new Facebook for Every Phone app, which offers a fast and comprehensive Facebook experience on over 2,500 different phones.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation  —  We've heard from multiple sources that Dropbox is finally moving on raising its next venture round and it's a whopper.  They've had preliminary conversations with several investors, several solid offers they've passed on earlier …
Electronista:
Microsoft denies WP7 for tablets: ‘we view a tablet as a PC’  —  Microsoft's Lees says no Windows Phone 7 tablets  —  Microsoft's Windows Phone president Andy Lees at the Worldwide Partners Conference once again tried to shoot down hopes for tablets based on Windows Phone 7.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Visually Launches To Automate The Making Of Infographics  —  The whiz kids behind Mint's infographics, Stewart Langille and Lee Sherman are today launching the first startup that solely focuses on mass producing infographics, Visually.  Users who visit Visually this morning …
Michael Hickins / Speakeasy:
Google Employee No. 59 on Google+, Privacy and Why He Left … Douglas Edwards joined Google in 1999 as employee No. 59, and lived through some of its early developmental steps, including the creation of the Google Doodle and Gmail.  Something of an outsider in a culture dominated by engineers …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Badgeville Raises $12 Million, Celebrates With An Infographic  —  Badgeville founder and CEO Kris Duggan is one of those people that is so ridiculously upbeat and positive all the time that sometimes you just want to strangle him.  No one has a right to be that happy.
Discussion: VentureBeat, VatorNews and AllThingsD
Reuters:
China Telecom plans to launch iPhone near year-end: sources  —  (Reuters) - China Telecom Corp Ltd plans to offer Apple Inc's popular iPhone in China by close to the end of 2011, sources said, making it the second operator to do so in the world's largest mobile phone market.  —  “It's expected to happen this year.
DigiTimes:
Pegatron unlikely to share iPad orders with Foxconn in 2011  —  Printer friendly Related stories Comments Email to a friend Latest news Advertisement Monica Chen, Taipei, Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 13 July 2011] Pegatron Technology is expected to land orders for at least 10 million units of iPhone 5 …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Brains!  Why EA May Spend $1.3 Billion on PopCap  —  After weeks of speculation, Electronic Arts has confirmed that it has agreed to acquire PopCap Games for $750 million in cash and stock.  —  TechCrunch had originally reported that the two companies were in talks, but the acquisition seemed unlikely given …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Q&A: PopCap co-founder on the EA deal, and the future
Discussion: Android Phones …
Electronista:
Police get controversial iPhone-based face recognition tech  —  MORIS iPhone add-on raises police, privacy issues  —  A divisive iPhone add-on from BI2 Technologies is about to reach police in a way that could challenge civil rights.  The MORIS case, already used in the military and a few limited areas …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
AT&T Sponsors Cheaper Kindle 3G With Special Offers  —  Amazon's Kindle 3G with Special Offers has something new to offer: AT&T (NYSE: T) sponsorship and a 15 percent price drop, to $139.  —  Kindle's 3G connectivity was already provided by AT&T, but AT&T hasn't underwritten the cost of the device until now (at least, not publicly).
Brian Heater / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: HP's Stephen DeWitt  —  HP caught the industry by surprise yesterday, announcing some serious executive reshuffling, with Stephen DeWitt, the company's former head of Personal Systems Group Americas stepping up to fill in the lead role at HP's webOS global business unit …
Todd Haselton / BGR:
AT&T to offer Sony S2 tablet exclusively in the U.S.  —  AT&T on Wednesday announced that it will be the exclusive provider of Sony's new S2 tablet in the United States.  Sony took the wraps off of the S2 in April, and said it offers a unique folding form factor with dual 5.5-inch 1024 x 480 displays …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Play For iPhone Coming Tomorrow, AOL Pitches Me Over Instagram  —  Back in March, we noted that the mobile-first group inside of AOL was pushing forward with a pretty nice new music app called “Play”.  The timing was good, they released it just as SXSW was kicking off.
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
In AT&T's bid for T-Mobile, Obama administration is caught in the middle  —  AT&T's $39 billion bid for T-Mobile is a deal that consumer advocates hate but labor unions love.  And that puts the Obama administration squarely between two powerful constituencies that typically support Democratic presidential candidates.
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