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Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Exclusive: Apple-Samsung juror speaks out — Manuel Ilagan, one of the nine jurors who ruled in favor of Apple, tells CNET he thought Samsung's internal e-mails about incorporating some of Apple's technology into its devices, and the evasive way Samsung executives answered questions, was damning.

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Groklaw:

Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced — Uh Oh. What's Wrong With this Picture? — Late in the process yesterday at the Apple v. Samsung trial, when the parties and the judge were reviewing the jury verdict form, Samsung noticed that there were, indeed, inconsistencies …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook tells Apple employees that today's victory ‘is about values’ — Following Apple's big win in U.S. court today against Samsung, Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent a memo response to Apple corporate employees. The statement is reminiscent of Apple PR head Katie Cotton's statement from earlier today …

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

Copying Works: How Samsung's Decision to Mimic Apple Paid Off in Spades — In the fall of 2008, just a year after it released the iPhone, Apple became the most profitable phone maker in the world. The milestone wasn't much remarked upon by the press. At the time, Apple was still selling …

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Dan Levine / Reuters:

Jury didn't want to let Samsung off easy in Apple trial — (Reuters) - Jurors did not want to let Samsung Electronics Co Ltd off easy in the landmark patent trial against Apple Inc, even though they felt Apple's damages demands were too high, according to the foreman.

More: AppleInsider, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Fortune, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat and Redmond Pie

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Apple vs. Samsung: the jury's final verdict form shows the breadth of Apple's win — The jury's final verdict form has been released in the Apple vs. Samsung case, and as you can see above it's a sea of “y” for “yes, it infringes” marks on a wide swath of Samsung's phones.

More: AllThingsD, Cult of Mac, BetaNews, CNET and The Next Web

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Analysis: Sweeping Apple win, but Samsung set for bounce-back

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Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Apple Stock Reaches New All-Time High Following Verdict, Up 1.70% To $674.48 After Hours

More: Los Angeles Times, USA Today, AllThingsD, Liliputing and The Next Web

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Apple's $1B patent victory vs. Samsung: A win for Microsoft?

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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Hearing for preliminary injunction in Apple vs. Samsung patent case to be held on September 20th

More: FOSS Patents, The Verge, Bloomberg, My Nokia Blog, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Electronista, AllThingsD, The Verge, AppleInsider, BBC, 9to5Mac, memeburn, Engadget and The Next Web

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Confirmed: New iPad Mini to Debut in October, After Latest Apple iPhone's September Bow — Apple's next generation iPhone and its so-called “iPad mini” will debut at two separate events this fall, rather than a single one as has been widely speculated, according to several sources.

Nick O'Neill:

There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks — Sarah Lacy calls acquihires a payday lending scheme. I have to disagree. There are a number off issues at play here but some counter-points to her whole thesis: — Not all failed startups are acquihired …

Tweets: @carnage4life and @spencerchen

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

The Acqui-hire Scourge: Whatever Happened to Failure in Silicon Valley? — Oh, look, Facebook acquired another company. Must be Friday. — It's fashionable to bitch about valuations, but it's acqui-hires that are quickly becoming the payday lending schemes of the startup world.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @rafat, @rabois, @sriramk and @owenthomas

David Pogue / Scientific American:

How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy — The death of the DVD is pushing users to piracy — Face it, movie fans: the DVD is destined to be dead as a doornail. — Only a few Blockbuster stores are still open. Netflix's CEO says, “We expect DVD subscribers to decline steadily every quarter, forever.”

More: Techdirt, MPAA Blog, TorrentFreak and Daring Fireball

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Sweet! Mayer Declares That It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time at Yahoo — Remember the infamous “Peanut Manifesto,” in which former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse likened the company's innovation process to peanut butter? — In it, he wrote: — “I've heard our strategy described …

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

How Google Went From Search Engine To Content Destination — Of things I imagined when I first started writing about Google as a hot new search engine in 1998, the idea that about 15 years later, Google would buy the venerable Frommer's travel guides or sell “Google Play” gift cards weren't remotely on the list.

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