Here is your daily Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock news and rumors for August 5, 2010.  The biggest Apple rumor today is around Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and its CEO’s plans to deliver the keynote speech at CES 2011. In other news, Apple continues to push HTML5 over Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) Flash, and now it looks like the FTC may have something to say about it. Finally, will Apple spend $150 million on a Chinese game developer?

Verizon iPhone to Debut at CES 2011?: More strong hints at an early 2011 release for a Verizon iPhone today. With word that Verizon’s CEO Ivan Seidenberg will be delivering the keynote speech at 2011’s Consumer Electronics Show, CultOfMac’s Ed Sutherland thinks that Verizon will kick of the show with an announcement of their long-rumored partnership with Apple. Sutherland also notes that, given Steve Jobs’ habit of personally unveiling each and every new Apple device, it would be unusual for Seidenberg to announce a CMDA iPhone for Verizon. In related news, iSuppli predicted today that Android-enable phones will surpass AAPL’s iPhone userbase by 2012, with 75 million active users in the wild to Apple’s 62 million by that time. Despite the persistent rumors, it’s possible that Verizon won’t need or want a Verizon iPhone by 2011.

FTC Looks Into Apple and Anti-Flash Policies: Steve Jobs has been on the receiving end of some harsh criticism in the months since the iPad released. Almost all of those criticisms have been in regards to the device’s lack of support for Adobe’s Flash. Jobs’ reaction? Whatever. Apple’s policy right now is to ignore Flash and stress adoption of HTML5, the web language that allows Flash-free media playback. That futurist attitude is all well and good, but now it looks like the FTC has taken an interest in AAPL’s refusal to support Adobe’s platform on iOS devices. Wired magazine recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FTC. The request was to review documents related to a complaint filed by Adobe against Apple. The complaint was originally filed after Apple blocked Adobe from releasing an application that would allow programmers to port Flash-based products to the iPhone and other iOS-run products. Wired‘s request was denied on the basis that releasing the documents would impede the FTC’s “law enforcement” duties, which would seem to indicate that the FTC is taking Apple’s anti-Flash policy very, very seriously.

Apple Moves to Acquire Chinese Game Developer: Chinese outlet SinoCast Daily Business Beat is reporting that Apple will acquire Chinese mobile Internet provider and game developer Handseeing Information Technology for a cool $150 million. In addition to it being unclear whether or not the report is anything but a rumor, it’s unclear just what Apple’s interest in Handseeing might be. While the company has helped build and launch successful Chinese online gaming community in a collaboration with Sun Microsystems, Apple’s own resources far outstrip Handseeing’s.

As of this writing, Anthony Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.