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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google responds to Apple v. Samsung verdict: most claims 'don't relate' to ‘core Android’ — In the wake of Friday's $1.049 billion jury verdict, Apple and Samsung quickly released statements to the press — but one company that remained conspicuously silent was Google.
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Apple Stock Opens At Record High Of $680 At A $637B Market Cap After Samsung Patent Win — Hear that? It's the sound of corks popping as Apple's stock price rockets to new highs. Following Apple's landmark victory against Samsung late Friday night, the company's stock price (NASDAQ:AAPL) …
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Analysis: Friend and foe; Samsung, Apple won't want to damage parts deal — (Reuters) - While Samsung Electronics is reeling from a patent pounding by its smartphone rival Apple Inc, this is unlikely to damage the other part of their relationship - where Samsung is the sole supplier …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung: We are the ones prioritizing innovation over litigation — Samsung has released details of an internal memo sent to employees following Friday's crushing US legal defeat to Apple. Though the verdict hit the Korean company hard — to the tune of more than $1 billion — it still believes … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
| Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
iOS and Android Adoption Explodes Internationally — The rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history. Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google discloses paid bloggers and journalists, says Stanford professor Mark Lemley is outside counsel — Google has followed up with a judge's order to disclose anyone it might have paid to influence coverage of its trial against Oracle, and the list includes a well-known Stanford professor …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Managing Expectations for Amazon's Upcoming Kindle Event — In less than two weeks, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will take the stage at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., to announce a lineup of new Kindle devices. — It was only a year ago that Bezos introduced a plethora …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Player 5.8, pockets everywhere brace for impact — We hope you wear baggy pants, because you're going to want big pockets to carry Samsung's giant new jukebox. The Galaxy Player 5.8 is dominated by its namesake 5.8-inch, 960 x 540 LCD — a screen that makes … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Diaspora Founders To Move On, Handing Over Decentralized Social Network ‘To The Community’ — It was a good run, but it looks like the founders of Diaspora have reached the end of the road — at least for their full-time leadership of the project. — Diaspora, the Kickstarter-backed initiative launched …
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Lenovo's 9-inch IdeaTab A2109 shows up at Best Buy, flaunts Tegra 3, $300 price tag — Lenovo's upcoming IdeaTab A2109 didn't drop in on the FCC with its seven-inch brother, but that hasn't stopped it from reaching stores. The nine-inch device appears to be in stock on Best Buy's online store … | The Modern Ink: |
Hooha for App.net released on Google Play — mobile and web applications. — E: apps@themodernink.com — Hooha (formally Jive), a new App.net client built for the community from the ground up is now available for download from Google Play. — Hooha is a beautiful yet simple …
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
IBM Buys Social HR And Talent Management Software Company Kenexa For $1.3B In Cash — IBM has scooped up talent management and HR software maker Kenexa. The price? A hefty $1.3 billion, or $46.00 per share in cash. — The NASDAQ-listed Kenexa offers an HR, talent acquisition and talent management software.
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| AppleInsider: |
Rumor: NFC chip spotted in photos of purported next-gen iPhone front assembly — New images thought to be of the front assembly for Apple's next-generation iPhone show a component never seen before in the company's handsets, prompting some to speculate the mystery part is a near field communication device.| Takashi Kamiguri / The Asahi Shimbun: |
Sony to leave disc drive market, nears end of restructuring — Asahi Asia Antenna - — Sony Corp. will abandon the optical disc drive business, nearly completing a restructuring of money-losing divisions it initiated after suffering huge losses in fiscal 2011.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Amazon's $79-per-year Prime shipping expands to offer 15m items, now more popular than Super Saver delivery — Amazon's news as of late has been focused on its media partnerships (and future device launches), but today the company has an impressive statistic to share regarding the usage …
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
RadioShack No Contract Wireless rate plans leak, $60 will get you everything — We're just about a week out from the rumored launch of RadioShack's Cricket-based No Contract Wireless plans, and more details are beginning to trickle out about the prepaid service.
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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple's Top Supplier Raises Salary, Cuts Probation for Workers — TAIPEI—Apple Inc.'s major supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said Friday it has raised basic salary by 16% for its production line workers in Zhengzhou, Henan province of China, as it has difficulty recruiting labor in the area.
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