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September 3, 2012, 5:45 AM

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Richard Florida / Wall Street Journal:

Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City — Goodbye, office parks. Drawn by amenities and talent, tech firms are opting for cities — For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley …

More: Slashdot. Tweets: @jhagel and @fredericl. Thanks:@saokar

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

AlleyCorp Seeds a Blossoming Internet Hub in New York — Kevin Ryan reclines in a designer chair in his Park Avenue office, wearing a Luciano Barbera suit and a vintage Rolex watch. A picture of Mr. Ryan with President Obama is on the wall and an ornate Oscar de la Renta gown hangs from the door.

Tweets: @darlin and @ryanchris

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:

South Korea Reassesses Its Great Imitator — SEOUL, South Korea — When a jury in San Jose, Calif., ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $1.05 billion in damages for violating Apple's patents for the iPhone and iPad, it did more than decide who had infringed upon whose intellectual property.

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Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple adds Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note to amended ‘Galaxy Nexus’ complaint

More: Engadget, Guardian, ZDNet, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, VatorNews, eWeek, Examiner, Ars Technica, SamMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, digitaltrends.com, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, Fortune, Phones Review, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge and AllThingsD. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Threat to BSkyB as Freesat partners with Netflix — Freesat, the satellite television joint-venture owned by the BBC and ITV, is to launch a major new assault on the pay-TV market by partnering with rival Netflix. — Freesat's new set-top box will allow viewers to watch shows like Doctor …

More: Engadget, The Next Web and SlashGear

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:

Here's how Samsung flew bloggers halfway around the world, then threatened to leave them there — Let's pretend that you're a blogger. You're given the chance to review new, hot hardware from a major company. All that's required is that you participate in some tasks, but these tasks would fit into your coverage so you agree.

More: Neowin, CNET, PhoneNews.com and Gizmodo

Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @joshuatopolsky, @clintonjeff, @clintonjeff and @bradmccarty

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

The first dedicated App.net client for iOS hits the App Store — The milestones in the quickly developing story of App.net keep coming. Today has seen the first dedicated client for iOS hit Apple's App Store. — AppNet Rhino is a collaboration between two Croatian companies - Planet 1107 …

More: The Verge, PC World and PC Magazine

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

App.net's Baby Steps: 250,000 Posts, 17,500 Users

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Jamie Doward / Guardian:

How online reviews are crucial to a restaurant's takings — US economists find that when a restaurant rating improved by just half a star it was very much more likely to be full at peak dining times — It is something every restaurateur and hotel owner knows: good reviews boost takings while terrible ones can close you down.

More: TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

Twitter's Chief Lawyer as Defender of Free Speech — SAN FRANCISCO — Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter's chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company. — That conviction explains why he spends …

More: GigaOM. Tweets: @hunterwalk and @ggreenwald

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

What the ebook settlement means for publishers, Apple and you — The states unveiled a deal this week that, if approved, would see consumers collect a refund of $0.25 to $1.32 for each ebook they bought from big publishers. It's splashy news, but the reality is more complicated.

Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts and @valaafshar

AFP:

Russia Unveils Secure “Almost Android” Tablet To Keep Data Away From Google — It seems that Russia's defense ministry has little faith in Google's operating systems: it has just unveiled its own encrypted version that has the remarkably familiar feel of an Android.

More: Liliputing and Slashdot. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Rocket Internet's ‘Blitzkrieg’: JP Morgan Invests In Russian Fashion Site Lamoda; $40-80M Reported — Less than a month after JP Morgan put investments into two Rocket Internet-backed fashion sites modelled on Zappos — an undisclosed investment in Zalando and $45 million in Brazil's Dafiti …

Amar Toor / The Verge:

Updated services agreement allows Microsoft to integrate content across cloud properties — Microsoft this week updated its services agreement with subtle, yet potentially significant changes to its policy on privacy and dispute settlement. The company notified users of the changes …

More: ZDNet, Help Net Security, VentureBeat, LiveSide.net, Neowin and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @akovacs

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia — Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested by Cambodian police on Thursday in Phnom Penh, the city that he made his home several years ago. — According to local sources he was arrested in an apartment above the Cadillac Bar on the riverfront …

More: TechEye, ZDNet, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald, SlashGear, memeburn, DailyFinance.com, Fudzilla, Technolog, The Register, Guardian, CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Neowin, Slyck and Softpedia News

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Oops: After Seizing & Censoring Rojadirecta For 18 Months, Feds Give Up & Drop Case — Looks like we've got something of a repeat of the Dajaz1 insanity, in which the US government seized and censored a website for over a year before giving up and handing the domain back — though this time it's with Rojadirecta.

More: Ars Technica, PC World and Hillicon Valley

Trevor Timm / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Members of Congress Demand Answers for Homeland Security's Unjust Domain Name Seizures

More: The Verge

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