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The CNBC Real-Time App is now available free-of-charge from the Apple iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The app features live streaming real-time stock quotes and charts before, during and after market hours from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, as well as real-time interactive and historical charts and company-specific news, profiles, returns and metrics.

The CNBC Real-Time App also offers breaking business news and alerts, stock market news and the ability to create a My Stocks watch list of users' stocks or to use the Stocks on CNBC list of the top stocks of the day.

And the app includes pre-market indicators, live futures pricing, Dow Impact (which analyzes the stocks that drive the movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average), global stock indices, commodities, bonds and more than 150 video news clips daily.

CNBC Digital vice president Scott Drake said:

To be successful in today's complex market, every investor needs to have financial-market data in real-time. Having access to this information when you want it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. We believe the unparalleled combination of real-time data, news and analysis, along with the comprehensive and easy to use interfaces, will make the CNBC Real-Time App the best business app available, and it will quickly become a must-have for every investor with an iPhone or iPod Touch.

CNBC.com launched its Investor's Guide to Real Estate, which offers information on topics including buying and selling homes, foreclosures and investing in real estate without purchasing property.

The guide also includes industry updates and special reports from Diana Olick, CNBC's real estate correspondent and author of CNBC.com's Realty Check blog. And regional snapshots and analysis of the best- and worst-valued cities across the country are included.

Other features include: Million Dollar Homes, Now and Then; Seller's Guide: How to Move a House in a Tough Market; How to List and Sell Your Home Without a Realtor; Rent Now, Buy Later Option May Be Ticket to Home Ownership; and America On Sale Now.

CNBC.com managing editor Allen Wastler said:

CNBC.com's Investor's Guide to Real Estate is a vast resource for users, providing them with an array of options on how to take advantage of the current real estate market. For those looking to buy or sell their homes right now, this guide will serve as a pertinent source of information.

Virginia is for lovers and, according to CNBC's third-annual America's Top States for Business study, Virginia is also for business.

Virginia swapped spots with last year's winner, Texas, which came in second, followed by Colorado, Iowa and Utah.

CNBC said each state was scored using publicly available data on 40 different measures of competitiveness, and the points they received were separated into 10 categories: Cost of Doing Business; Workforce; Economy; Education; Quality of Life; Technology and Innovation; Transportation and Infrastructure; Business Friendliness; Cost of Living; and Access to Capital.

The long-running feud between CNBC Reports host Dennis Kneale and financial bloggers has hit the name-calling point.

Apparently tired of being referred to as "Beaker," "super dipshit," "as desirable to watch as a 350-pound woman in a thong bikini on the beach," "clueless" and countless other things, Kneale fired back.

After referring to the bloggers in general as "dickweeds," Kneale invited a blogger named "Mike" from Annuityiq.com to call into the show, then proceeded to tear into the blogger's answer to his question, saying at one point, "If this were The Gong Show, the producers have just given you the gong. You've got no specifics. You've got no facts."

The Faber Report, a blog in which David Faber offers analysis on developments in financial services, individual corporations and markets around the globe, joined the CNBC.com family.

Faber covers topics including hedge funds, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. He has anchored and co-produced several original documentaries and long-form programs for CNBC and appears on the cable network's Squawk on the Street Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. ET.

"David is one of the most well-respected business reporters in the country," CNBC.com managing editor Allen Wastler said in a release. "Our blogs are a fast-growing area of our site and, with the addition of The Faber Report, our users will have even more access to the highly beneficial and analytical reporting that they have come to rely on and expect from us."

CNBC's LA-based correspondent Jane Wells pulls back the curtain of her glamorous reporting job for the business news network - like what happens when a reporter is sent hundreds of miles into the desert for a live shot, only to have the chairman of the Federal Reserve cancel it.

Wells, whose sense of humor plays on camera, and off, writes about these and other inside stories from the TV news world on her CNBC.com blog, "Funny Business"

That's how many views Rick Santelli's rant has gotten so far since it went online last Thursday. Most of the views, 1,815,680 as of this morning, went to the original clip on CNBC.com. The other 670,000+ were from versions on YouTube.

> Update: 1,818,686 views on the CNBC.com video as of 1:30pmET today.

As of this morning, yesterday's Rick Santelli outburst on CNBC had been viewed on CNBC.com 1,277,015 times. That makes it the most-watched video ever on CNBC.com. The next most-watched clip was Jim Cramer's "The Fed is Asleep" rant from August 2007 which was viewed 224,000 times on CNBC.com.

A version of the Santelli clip on YouTube has been viewed an additional 202,000 times.

CNBC.com is also running a poll asking "Would you want to join Rick Santelli's 'Chicago Tea Party?'" 227,783 have voted so far. 94% have said "Yes." 5% voted "No."