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March 1, 2013, 4:35 PM
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed  —  Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung cases in the Northern District of California, has just entered an order striking (or, more precisely, vacating) $450,514,650 …
Bloomberg:
Apple Award Cut With New Trial for Some Samsung Products  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s $1.05 billion victory against Samsung Electronics (005930) Co. in a patent infringement case was cut almost in half by a judge who ordered a new trial for some Samsung products.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit  —  Hedge fund magnate and famous Apple bull David Einhorn has dropped his lawsuit against the company in which he holds some 1.3 million shares.  Einhorn's Greenlight Capital on Friday withdrew the suit it brought against Apple over a proxy proposal …
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban  —  Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Facebook holding an event to show off a ‘new look for News Feed’ on March 7th  —  Facebook has just sent out an invite to press with the text ‘come see a new look for News Feed’.  The event will be held at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters on Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 10am PST and we'll be on site.
Bloomberg:
Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.
David Hsieh / DisplaySearch Blog:
Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013?  —  The launch of the iPad mini in late 2012 has been seen as an acknowledgement by Apple that smaller size (7-9") tablet PCs would become a larger part of the market than larger sizes (9.7" or 10.1").  Key aspects are more attractive prices and the ability …
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more  —  BlackBerry 10 has been out in the wild for almost a month, and today early adopters will begin receiving the first update to the new platform: version 10.0.10.85.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
At last, Microsoft brings Photosynth panorama app to Windows Phone 8  —  After previously making the panaroma app available for iOS (and Windows Phone 7 after that), Microsoft is finally bringing Photosynth to Windows Phone 8.  As you'd expect, Microsoft has tapped into WP8's feature set …
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline  —  Yahoo today issued its annual 10-K report to the Securities And Exchange Commission.  These kinds of forms have a lot of boilerplate language that is reused again and again — often …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Exploit lets websites bombard visitors' PCs with gigabytes of data  —  A Web developer has demonstrated a simple-to-execute exploit that allows websites to surreptitiously bombard visitors' storage devices with gigabytes of junk data.  —  As its name suggests, FillDisk.com loads …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
FTC: Chairman was unaware of Google's donation to ceremony celebrating his work during investigation  —  The FTC has responded to yesterday's controversy regarding Google and its director stating that he knew nothing at the time of the donation in question.  This implicitly states …
More: ValueWalk
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google's CFO says Motorola's upcoming products aren't ‘wow’ by Google standards (update)  —  If you were hoping to see a revelatory smartphone from Motorola in the near future, you might want to tone down those expectations.  Google's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette today …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found  —  Summary: Polish security researchers have discovered yet more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, the beleaguered Web plug-in, that led to the successful intrusion of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent weeks.  —  Zack Whittaker
Jesse Hicks / The Verge:
Over 1,000 days without a trial: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the culture of secrecy  —  His requests for a dismissal denied, the accused WikiLeaks source heads toward trial — and possibly life imprisonment  —  You could be forgiven if you've forgotten Bradley Manning.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

New York Times:
Sources detail NPR's struggles with declining audiences, falling sponsorship revenue, internal conflicts over turning things around, and a diversity push

Rolling Stone:
Ex-AMI CEO David Pecker testifies about agreeing to be Trump's “eyes and ears” and how the National Enquirer used Michael Cohen's prompts to bash Trump rivals

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David Meyer / GigaOM:
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