New Delhi and Warsaw - Apple on Friday launched its iPhone 3G in India and Poland, but while crowds lined up at midnight sales at several locations in India, Apple's Polish iPhone carrier partner, Orange, said it paid actors to create "fake queues" at 20 of its stores in the country, Reuters reported. [more..]

Burbank, Calif. - Time Warner's Warner Bros. Television Group said on Friday that it plans to launch TheWB.com, the new online business model for the discontinued network, on Aug. 27 with full episodes of series including "Friends," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "The O.C." [more..]

Beijing - NBC and Yahoo are both claiming to be the top Web destinations for the Olympics, with NBC citing a mix of internal, Nielsen and Hitwise data, and Yahoo looking to comScore to claim the top spot, PaidContent reported. [more..]

New York - Verizon is close to signing a deal with Google to provide search technology on its mobile phones, The Wall Street Journal reported. [more..]

Tokyo - Digital music sales in Japan during the second quarter grew 28% to $204.8 million, while total unit sales were up 7% to 119 million, Billboard reported, citing data from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). [more..]

Long Beach, Calif. - Adisn, an online advertising network, has raised $1 million in its first round of venture capital financing, led by Battery Ventures, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing. [more..]

Los Angeles - Singer Sheryl Crow is offering the first 50,000 people who register three friends to vote a free digital copy of her new album, "Detours," the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Los Angeles - The developers behind Songbird, a free software media player and Web browser, this week announced the .7 beta release of the application, which includes support for social music service Last.fm and concert ticket sales application Songkick, Webmonkey reported. [more..]

Atlanta - Time Warner's CNN has made its online news video embeddable on third-party sites, LostRemote.com reports. [more..]

Stockholm - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday announced the launch of PlayNow Arena in Scandinavia, a mobile download store offering music, games and applications, Dow Jones reports. [more..]

San Francisco - Pepsi's Mountain Dew soft drink brand has launched a new singles-only digital record label, Green Label Sounds, which this week offered its first exclusive song from the Cool Kids, Wired.com reported. [more..]

Amsterdam - Sellaband, a Netherlands-based company that helps bands raise funds for recording by enabling fans to contribute online, announced on Friday that it has signed a deal with YouLicense.com, to allow bands using the service to make their music available for licensing to producers, filmmakers, marketers and ad agencies. [more..]