Today’s Top 3 Headlines in Tech, Mobile & Social Media

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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,†a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Samsung Galaxy S II Coming To U.S. in September

Samsung’s flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S II, will soon be available in the U.S. from AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile.

HP To Release Final Round of TouchPads

HP is planning to supply a “limited quantity” of TouchPads to meet current demand, although the company still intends to discontinue the development of webOS devices.

FT Pulls App from iTunes

The Financial Times has finally pulled its app from the iTunes Store after failing to come to terms with Apple’s in-app subscription rules.

Further News

• CNN has acquired iPad newsreading app Zite for an undisclosed sum. We interviewed KC Estenson, CNN’s general manager of digital, and Mark Johnson, CEO of Zite, about their plans for the new subsidiary going forward.
• Google and Apple continue to increase their respective shares of the smartphone market, while RIM and Microsoft continue to lose ground, comScore’s latest data shows.
• Mozilla has offered a first glimpse of its Firefox for Tablets web browser.
• Tumblr scored 13.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. in July, up 218% from the same time last year, according to comScore.
• Flickr has introduced a privacy feature called geofences that allows users to create geographic privacy settings for photos’ location data.

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