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"Welcome to this morning\u2019s edition of \u201CFirst To Know,\u201D a series in which we keep you in the know on what\u2019s happening in the digital world.\u00A0\u00A0We're keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.\nGoogle &amp; Facebook in Early Talks To Acquire Twitter\nSources familiar with the matter have told Wall Street Journal that Facebook and Google executives have engaged in \u201Clow-level talks\u201D to acquire Twitter for between $8 billion and $10 billion.\nHP Unveils Tablet &amp; 2 New Smartphones\nHP unveiled a new line of webOS devices Wednesday, including the much-anticipated TouchPad tablet, a credit-card sized phone called the Veer, and a larger, more multimedia-rich smartphone called the Pre 3.\nVerizon iPhone 4 Arrives in Stores\nConsumers can now purchase a Verizon iPhone 4 at a number of retailers, including Apple, Best Buy, Walmart and Verizon stores. Phones are also available for online order.\nThe So-Called Facebook Phone Has Been Unveiled\nINQ has unveiled the long-rumored \"Facebook phone\" \u2014 except it's not actually branded by Facebook.\nFurther News\n\nActivision, beset by falling sales, has decided to shutter the division that created Guitar Hero and its sequels.\nWikifashion, an online encyclopedia for fashion brands, figures and vocabulary, has unveiled a new redesign.\nA recent report from Canalys touted Android as the top smartphone platform in Q4 2010, but a new report from Gartner says that Symbian is still the dominant OS.\nYouTube has signed a deal with RightsFlow to help with music rights management.\nPhoto app Hipstamatic is releasing an update to its iPhone app Thursday that includes a brand-new, saturated fashion lens produced with the help of fashion photographer Chiun-Kai Shih.\nPicPlz, the Instagram-like photo app for iPhone and Android, has released the latest version of its Android app.\n\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, DNY59"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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