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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 …

More: AllThingsD, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, digitaltrends.com, Gizmodo, NYT Bits, Business Insider, CNET, ReadWrite, InfoWorld, BetaNews, MSN Philippines News, MacRumors, Fortune, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, TUAW, PhoneArena, GigaOM, Engadget, BGR, The Next Web, Neowin and App Advice

Tweets: @fosspatents and @fosspatents

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.

More: The Register, Mercury News, ValueWalk, VentureBeat, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable!

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 …

More: ZDNet, Reuters and Silicon Valley Watcher. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Mercury News, ValueWalk, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNET, PadGadget, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, MacRumors, SiliconBeat, TUAW, GigaOM, The Register, Electronista and iLounge

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.

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, PandoDaily and WebProNews

Tweets: @noyesclt and @rakeshlobster

Thanks:@ryanlawler

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 …

More: Examiner, PC Magazine and Ars Technica

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more

More: Inside BlackBerry, CNET, SlashGear, ReadWrite, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, IntoMobile, FierceMobileContent News, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, Inquirer, The Verge, The Full Signal, MobileSyrup.com, Pocket-lint and Gotta Be Mobile

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,” …

More: Inside Search, Search Engine Land, Bruce Clay Blog, Domain names …, TechCrunch, WebProNews, PandoDaily, The Verge, VentureBeat and Mashable!

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.

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).

More: BBC, Ars Technica, BBC, CNET, CNET, Globe and Mail, digitaltrends.com, CBS News, iLounge, The Consumerist, Macgasm, TUAW, VentureBeat, iTech Post, PadGadget, Mac|Life, App Advice and Ubergizmo

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.

More: Yodel Anecdotal, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, CNET, PandoDaily, Mashable! and bizjournals

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.

More: GigaOM, Search Engine Land, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, German Pulse, Associated Press, Spiegel Online and Datamation.com. See also Mediagazer

Melissa Eddy / New York Times:

German Copyright Law Targets Google Links

More: Telegraph, TechCrunch, Reuters and paidContent

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.

More: Raspberry Pi and TechCrunch

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.

More: Business Insider, CNNMoney.com, The Verge, The Awl and Betabeat

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 …

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

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

T-Mobile Attacked by AT&T in Newspaper Ad Ahead of Potential Rebranding — According to TmoNews, T-Mobile is gearing up to introduce significant changes to its service in March, eliminating both contracts and early termination fees, along with implementing installment payments for its equipment.

More: TmoNews, AllThingsD, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceWireless and BGR

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 …

More: Windows Phone, The Windows Blog, CNET, Engadget, Pocketnow, BetaNews, Neowin, GeekWire, The Official Microsoft Blog, The Next Web and Softpedia News

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