Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MLB Nearing $1 Million In iPhone Revenue  —  Major League Baseball’s At Bat iPhone app is a hit — and a money maker.  —  The league tells us it’s sold 130,000 copies of the $10 app so far this year.  That translates to about $1.3 million in gross revenue.

Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids  —  It’s been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine — a service that’s debuting today with a beta test in Seattle — could be a contender.  —  Vine is a hyperlocal, personalized message and alert system.

Lexcycle:
Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com!  —  We are very excited to announce that Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com!  —  It has been an amazing experience to see Stanza grow out of our brainstormed ideas into one of the most downloaded iPhone applications.

Business Week:
New Gear from Apple and Verizon Wireless?  —  The companies are in talks to develop two iPhone-like handhelds that could be unveiled as soon as this year  —  Verizon Wireless is warming to the idea of an Apple (AAPL) partnership.  Verizon Wireless is in talks with Apple to distribute …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Inside Steve Jobs’ tear-down mansion  —  On Tuesday a California city council will reconsider Steve Jobs’ longstanding request for permission to tear down the empty 84-year-old mansion that stands on the site where he wants to build a smaller, modern house more to his exacting taste.

Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple’s Mark Papermaster finally ready for work  —  Six months after Mark Papermaster accepted a key leadership role at Apple, he has finally started leading the group developing future iPhones and iPods.  —  Papermaster’s first official day was Friday.  His title is senior vice president …

Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Eric Schmidt on Google’s New Plan for the News  —  The upper crust of Hollywood swirled about the vestibule and dining room of Arianna Huffington’s Brentwood mansion on Friday night at a party for author Kathy Freston, and to kick off this weekend’s L.A. Times Book Festival.  (More on this […]

David Kravets / Threat Level:
Public Booted from DVD Copying Trial Over ‘Secret’ CSS Code  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Whether the public has a right to make a “fair use” copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court.  Yet the public may never know whether the verdict was reached fairly because […]

Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-book Application for the iPhone  —  Update |  4:04 p.m. Added comment from Amazon.com.  —  Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon is set to announce it has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular free e-book application …

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Don’t get confused: Facebook’s open stream approach isn’t like Twitter’s  —  Facebook announced the launch today of its Open Stream API, a new set of tools that will allow application developers to access users’ “streams” — the never-ending set of updates, photos and shared links that […]