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August 5, 2013, 11:05 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles  —  Ruling Promises to Alter Strategies Some Tech Giants Use to Defend Inventions  —  By - IAN SHERR and - BRENT KENDALL -  —  The Obama administration's decision to overturn an international trade ruling against Apple Inc. …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
How the ITC forced a veto in the Samsung-Apple patent case  —  The International Trade Commission blew it by ignoring Dean Pinkert dissent.  —  FORTUNE — His dissent was heavily redacted and buried in a long official filing, But everything you need to know about how the U.S. International …
Cotton Delo / AdAge:
Facebook Hires First CMO Gary Briggs from Google  —  Mr. Briggs Replaces VP-Product Marketing Eric Antonow  —  Facebook has tapped a seasoned technology marketing executive most recently with Google to be its first-ever CMO.  —  Gary Briggs, who'd previously been chief marketer …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Samsung Notes New Galaxy Coming At Sept. 4 Event in Berlin  —  Samsung on Monday announced plans to launch a new Galaxy device at a Sept. 4 event in Berlin.  —  The handwritten design of the invitation suggests that perhaps the event might serve as a launch point for the next Galaxy Note, which has been expected to launch this fall.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google adds touch-friendly Chrome features in latest test version  —  Google appears to be readying a number of touch-friendly features for its Chrome browser.  In the latest nightly Canary build, a new slide-to-navigate feature has been added that lets you swipe left or right to go backwards and forwards on web pages.
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Spotify's new Browse feature surfaces the best of its billion playlists  —  After spending the last several months rolling out Discover and Radio, two big pieces of its music discovery puzzle, Spotify is today introducing a critical third piece: Browse, a collection of the service's best playlists on iOS and Android.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Now Lets Jobseekers Apply For Positions Directly Via Its Mobile Apps  —  Last month, LinkedIn introduced the ability for users of its social network for the working world to search for jobs via its iOS and Android mobile apps.  Now it will let jobseekers seal the deal, so to speak …
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Airport car-sharing startup FlightCar will pay you up to $400 per month to rent out your car  —  Airport car-sharing service FlightCar, a startup which helps car owners make money off of their idle vehicles, has just launched FlightCar Monthly: a new program in public beta that will pay …
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
GM's plan to turn the car into a smartphone on wheels  —  At CES in January both Ford and General Motors unveiled their connected car open development plans, but the two automakers couldn't have been different in how they followed up.  Ford immediately started pumping out new apps for its Sync AppLink platform, but GM kept quiet.
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