Apple, Google Line Up to Bid for Kodak's Patents  —  Battle lines are forming in Eastman Kodak Co.'s patent sale ahead of Monday's initial bid deadline.  —  At least two groups are expected to bid on Kodak's trove of 1,100 patents, with a bevy of technology and patent heavyweights picking sides …

Apple's Mountain Lion Off to a Roaring Start  —  Thanks to its easy download and low price, Apple's Mountain Lion appears on pace to be one of the most quickly adopted operating systems in history.  —  After just its first 48 hours on the market, Apple's new Mountain Lion already accounts …

Apple Buys Samsung's Android Security Partner AuthenTec For $356M  —  Amid fierce smartphone competition between Samsung and Apple that has spilled into a multinational patent battle, it looks like Apple may have opened yet another front on the M&A side: it is buying mobile security company AuthenTec …

Google: we failed to delete all Streetview data  —  ‘Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted.  —  Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted …

Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months  —  Traffic analytics site ComScore has revealed a large increase in visits to Google+.  According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to the social network has increased by 66 percent over the last nine months …

Multiple Law Firms Are Now Investigating Zynga For Possible Stock Shenanigans  —  Bad news just got worse for the makers of FarmVille.  It looks like a whole lot of lawyers are about to pounce on one of gaming's biggest companies.  —  Following news that Zynga insiders sold large amounts …

Far from Silicon Valley, tech industry finds an oracle  —  (Reuters) - Anand Shimpi is one of the most influential tech industry figures you've never heard of.  —  From his start as a teenager building PCs for students and faculty at a college in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina …

RIAA: Online Music Piracy Pales In Comparison to Offline Swapping  —  In April, one of the RIAA's key employees informed a group of music industry insiders about the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme in the U.S. TorrentFreak received a copy of the presentation sheets which include …

Apple Working on Advanced Display for Future Video Glasses  —  Apple has been toying with a heads-up display or video glasses since 2006 and they've already been granted a patent for their invention.  Then earlier this month Apple's video glasses project won a surprising second patent …

Tech Firms Battle to Keep Secrets as Apple vs. Samsung Nears Trial  —  While the primary battle next week in a San Jose courtroom will be between Samsung and Apple, a secondary skirmish is also taking place.  —  Both Apple and Samsung — along with a variety of other tech companies including Intel …

Senate amendment would allow Facebook users to share Netflix videos  —  A proposed amendment to a Senate cybersecurity bill would allow Facebook users to opt-in to automatically share which videos they have watched on Netflix.  —  The Senate could vote on the amendment, filed by Sen. Patrick Leahy …

VeriFone CEO on Square's Latest Funding Round?  ‘Pets.com’  —  Square is close to raising $200 million, according to reports, for an implied valuation of $3.25 billion — nearly as much as its well-entrenched point of sale competitor VeriFone, which is currently worth about $3.7 billion.

Bitly is working on an “Internet attention ranking engine” called Realtime  —  Bitly, the company that basically ushered the world into short links on sites like Twitter, is playing around with a new service, launching it under its “Bitly Labs” umbrella.  —  It's called Realtime, and is available at http://www.rt.ly

Pinwheel Becomes Findery After Court Injunction  —  What a difference a single letter can make.  —  Two start-ups have been caught in a legal battle over the name Pinweel and Pinwheel since late February.  The subtle difference: the letter “h.”  —  Pinweel, the one without the h, is a photo-sharing app co-founded by Richard Bulman.

Apple U.S. margins for iPad roughly half of iPhone: court filing  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc earned gross margins of 49 to 58 percent for U.S. iPhone sales between April 2010 and the end of March 2012, while gross margins on the iPad were much lower during much of that period, according to a court filing.