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it's Monday July 8 2013 I'm David Pierce and I spent my fourth of July watching the best Marvel movie Howard the Duck this is 90 seconds on the verge nothing says Independence Day like a bunch of companies buying up smaller ones over the holiday weekend the FCC finally approves softbank's 20 1.6 billion dollar acquisition of mobile carrier sprint and sprint acquisition of clearwire it's like a nesting doll but with regulatory oversight both deals are expected to close early this month in a surprising move samsung also picked up set-top box maker boxy for a reported 30 million dollars what about hulu bidding for the company has reportedly ended but it's not clear who if anyone has emerged the winner just yet it's the fifth anniversary of Apple's iOS App Store and that means free stuff to celebrate the occasion games like Tiny Wings Infinity Blade 2 and bad land are all free for a limited time along with apps like traktor DJ and the journal app day one Apple's mobile app store opened in 2008 with 500 apps now it has over 900,000 apps it's all bad why have a running his friends requests and finally Samsung offered a million customers a free early copy of jay-z's magna carta holy grail there was a price the jay-z magna carta mobile app required users to provide access to their phone status and location information luckily the internet took care of that problem almost immediately as prior to downloads and torrents of the album spread the album is out officially julyman and that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow the man who made a moleskine using only field notes and duct tapes