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Samsung scrambles to recover after uppercut — Samsung Electronics' uphill court battle against Apple in the United States over intellectual property patent infringement now looks insurmountable after a jury in San Jose awarded the American technology giant an overwhelming victory.| 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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| Cam Simpson / Business Week: |
The Deadly Tin Inside Your Smartphone — On May 29, in the bottom of a tin-mining pit on Bangka Island in Indonesia, a wall about 16 feet high collapsed, sending a wave of earth crashing down on a 40-year-old father of two. His name was Rosnan. The dirt crushed his legs …
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Investors Don't Like Acqui-hires — Sarah Lacy wrote about acqui-hires this weekend on Pando Daily. She got some things wrong. — The main problem is her argument doesn't work on its face. The logic breaks. — She says that all the interested parties love acqui-hires …
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| Avi Charkham / TechCrunch: |
5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions — Editor's note: Avi Charkham is Head of Product & Design @ lool ventures, an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel and the incubators of MyPermissions personal cloud security service.
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Disruptions: At Box, a Fast-Moving Chief Immersed in the Cloud — LOS ALTOS, Calif. — It's about 20 minutes into my lunch interview with Aaron Levie, co-founder of Box, at the headquarters of the online data storage company, and he still doesn't have any food. — “Are you eating?”| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia Capital's Latest $975 Million Raise Is All About International — It looks like Sequoia Capital finally closed in on that cash we've been hearing about. — We've heard that the firm has raised three separate funds for U.S., China and Israeli investments.
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Will Apple now sue Google? — Maybe eventually. But Apple is working its way up the food chain, and it's got a full plate — FORTUNE — There was an elephant in the courtroom when Apple (AAPL) won its billion-dollar patent infringement award against Samsung Friday, and its name is Google (GOOG).
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VatorNews, brian s hall, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, The Register, Redmond Pie and Gizmodo. Tweets: @danfrakes
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Dropbox two-step verification security option to lock down your files available to test now — Everyone knows that your primary email account is the lynchpin of your digital security: if someone gains access to that it's likely you could face quite a bit of damage, not unlike what happened to Mat Honan earlier this month.
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, Digital Inspiration …, Techdows, BetaNews and Lifehacker
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Apple-Samsung Case Shows Smartphone as Legal Magnet — The smartphone in your hand is a marvel of innovation, packing sophisticated computing and communications technologies into a sleek digital device. — It is also a litigation magnet. — In the last few years, the companies …
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Chicago Sun Times, AppleTell and Softpedia News
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
With A San Francisco Launch Imminent, Lyft Is Doubling Its Fleet Of Drivers And Readying An Android App — It's been just eight weeks since Zimride's ride-sharing service, Lyft, was launched in beta, providing San Francisco users a low-cost alternative to cabs and Ubers.
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VoIP Watch and GigaOM
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Kleiner To Invest More Than $100 Million In Enterprise — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will more than double its investments in mobile applications for corporate users, as well as technology used to remotely manage software and hardware, investment partner Matt Murphy said.
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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