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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 …
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Apple Award Cut With New Trial for Some Samsung Products — Apple's $1.05 billion victory against Samsung Electronics Co. in a patent-infringement case was cut about 45 percent by a judge who ordered a new trial on damages for some Samsung products after finding the jury erred.
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| 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 … | Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors: |
Apple Offers Refund After British Boy Spends $2500 on In-App Purchases in 15 Minutes — A five-year-old boy in the UK accidentally made £1700 ($2550) of in-app purchases in a freemium game in just 15 minutes after asking his father to type in the password for a free download, reports the BBC (via Gizmodo).
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works” — Every wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search? If so, Google's got a new resource designed to answer questions. Called “How Search Works,” … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Yahoo to kill swath of products including BlackBerry app, message boards, and more in April to sharpen focus — Yahoo on Friday announced it is killing a slew of services next month. The company is shutting down Avatars, its BlackBerry app, Clues, app search, Sports IQ, Message Boards, and its Updates API next month.
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| Zach Epstein / BGR: |
BlackBerry coup confirmed: iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK — BlackBerry (BBRY) is at the start of a very long haul as the struggling smartphone maker attempts to stage a comeback for the ages. Early sales of the company's first next-generation …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple's Lightning AV Adapter contains an ARM SoC, 256MB memory, may be an ‘AirPlay’ decoder — Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter appears to have a system on a chip inside of it and may actually function as an AirPlay receiver, according to some recent investigation by Panic Software.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Slapped With Cease And Desist By Illinois State Department Of Financial Regulation — Mobile payments company Square appears to have just received a cease and desist order from the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. You can access the document here.
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Thanks:@ryanlawler| 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 …
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| Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company: |
Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO — One month ago, I interviewed then-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason for a forthcoming Fast Company feature on the future of Groupon. His performance—at turns, defensive, weary, combative, and naïve—foreshadowed his firing on Thursday.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
HitBliss, The Pandora Of Ads, Will Pay You To Watch Commercials — We've been bombarded by advertisers for so long it's rare we even remember this, but advertising is still valuable. — HitBliss, a new service launching into beta, is looking to put the control back in the hands of consumers …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold — The Pi super-charged DIY projects and offers a perfect teaching tool. — The folks who built the Raspberry Pi knew they had a great idea, but they probably didn't anticipate just how successful it would be.
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Raspberry Pi and TechCrunch
| Melissa Eddy / New York Times: |
German Copyright Law Targets Google Links — BERLIN — German lawmakers approved legislation on Friday that grants publishers the right to charge search engines and other online aggregators for reproducing their content but continues to allow the free use of text in links and brief summaries.
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How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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“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).
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