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May 6, 2014, 12:35 PM

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Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Samsung to Fight Apple Smartphone Trial Verdict: Lawyer — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will challenge a jury's $120 million award to Apple Inc. in a patent-infringement verdict that was “unsupported by evidence,” a lawyer for the Suwon, South Korea-based company said.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacDailyNews and Electronista

Kurt Eichenwald / Vanity Fair:

The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple-Samsung Jury Recalculates Verdict, but Leaves Intact Original $119 Million Award

More: Inquirer, CNET, TechEye, Digital Trends, TUAW, Electronista, VentureBeat, Reuters, IntoMobile, App Advice, InfoWorld, iPhone Hacks and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @josh

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple-Samsung Jurors Say Google's Role Intriguing, but Didn't Determine Outcome

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, iPhone, App Advice, Cult of Mac and AppleInsider

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Microsoft will hold a ‘small’ Surface event on May 20th — Microsoft has reportedly been working on a miniature version of its Surface tablet for nearly two years, but the wait may be over. The company has just sent out invitations to a Microsoft Surface event on May 20th, with the tagline “Join us for a small gathering.”

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Surface Mini: 8in, ARM, pen support and coming in June — Microsoft's Surface mini has been a bit of an elusive tablet; having been rumored for over a year and then not arriving in the fall when many expected it to show up on retail shelves, we finally have a press event for the new device.

More: ZDNet, PC World, WindowsITPro and PC Pro. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

VSCO, a Digital Photography Company, Raises $40 Million From Accel Partners — Chances are, if you have used Instagram, you have come across the hashtag #VSCO or #VSCOCam. — Both refer to a feature-rich camera application developed by a Bay Area start-up, Visual Supply Company …

More: Accel, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Re/code and PE Hub Blog

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass — Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.”

More: PC Magazine, TechHive, USA Today, Marketing Land, Mashable, Entrepreneur, Neowin, Android Central, CNET News, Glass Almanac, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Pocketnow and Android and Me

Jeffrey Hightower / Google LatLong:

Google Maps apps add lane directions, ability to save maps for offline use, Uber support, more — Get on the road, go off the grid, or plan the perfect weekend with the Google Maps app — When your life is moving fast, you need tools to keep up with your pace.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Engadget, 9to5Mac and Droid Life. Tweets: @tim

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

After Facebook Deal, Moves App Changes Privacy Policy — Moves, the fitness-tracking app recently acquired by Facebook, has changed its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data, including with Facebook. — As recently as Friday, Moves's privacy policy said the company did not …

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Tweets: @caseynewton and @laurengoode

Graham Cluley:

Dropbox fixes one of two vulnerabilities that allowed users to accidentally leak shared file URLs to third parties — Dropbox users leak tax returns, mortgage applications and more — If you are using file-sharing systems like Dropbox and Box without proper care and attention …

More: The Dropbox Blog, Intralinks CollaboristaBlog, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Computerworld, Inquirer, ZDNet, BBC, Gizmodo, Wired.co.uk, SC Magazine, ITProPortal, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News and Engadget. Tweets: @gcluley

Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Google experimenting with hiding URLs in Chrome — Summary: In an effort to make phishing attacks more evident to the user, Chrome Canary is taking a tip from iOS Safari, emphasizing the domain and hiding the rest of the URL. — Jake Archibald, a “developer advocate” for Chrome at Google …

More: Jake Archibald, Disconnected, VentureBeat, PC World, Geek.com, Mashable, SC Magazine, Ubergizmo, The Register, VentureBreak and Liliputing

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Google to Acquire Online Attribution Firm Adometry — Google wants to help advertisers get a better sense of how their online ad campaigns work collectively. So the company is acquiring Adometry, an Austin-Tx.-based firm that specializes in online ad attribution-i.e. the science …

More: Adometry, 9to5Google, Google Analytics, Marketing Land, AdExchanger and TechCrunch

Brian Fagioli / BetaNews:

Lenovo announces two new 11.6-inch Chromebooks: the N20 for $279 and the N20p starting at $329 — Lenovo announces N20 and N20p Chromebooks — I think it safe to say that the Chromebook movement has exceeded all expectations. What first seemed like a silly Google experiment has blossomed into a legit Windows threat.

More: Engadget, Computerworld, SlashGear, Mashable, The Verge, TechEye, Electronista, Android Central, ZDNet, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, Re/code and Gizmodo

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Infecting DVRs with Bitcoin-mining malware even easier than you suspected — The dialog that appears when users want to manually change the default password on their EPCOM Hikvision S04 DVR. — Sans Institute — It took just one day for a low-end, Internet-connected digital video recorder …

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Tim Cushing / Techdirt:

US government begins testing national online ID system in Michigan and Pennsylvania — US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet' — An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.

More: Engadget, GCN, Ecumenical News, SlashGear and VentureBeat

Tweets: @digiphile, @hornokplease, @scottesposito and @alanbleiweiss

Reuters:

Twitter shares fall over 10% to all-time low as lock-up period for 470M shares expires — Twitter shares fall as stock lock-up expires — (Reuters) - Shares of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) fell more than 10 percent in early trading on Tuesday after the expiration of a six-month “lock-up” …

More: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Re/code, CNBC and Bloomberg

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

@WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet — @WalmartLabs, the retailer's Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company Adchemy, its biggest deal yet in terms of people.

More: Walmart Labs, Search Engine Land, Re/code, bizjournals, ZDNet, AdExchanger and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @nicolastorzec

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

Pros and cons of three key materials used to make smartphones: plastic, glass, and metal — A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile — Within the past four years, the smartphone market has changed drastically. Displays have dramatically increased in quality. Battery life has increased.

More: Gizmodo

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Tumblr rolls out in-app themes, finally becomes a mobile company — What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! — “It's not just our mobile app any more. It is Tumblr.”

More: The Verge, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, Tumblr Staff, Gizmodo, iMore, Co.Design, Android Community, Phandroid, VBProfiles and Mashable. Tweets: @pkafka

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix — A bug has been discovered in iOS 7 that causes email attachments to not be encrypted. Before anyone panics, however, in order for an attacker to exploit the bug they'd need to a) steal your device and, b) …

More: Andreas Kurtz, CNNMoney.com, Globe and Mail, VentureBeat, Daily Mail and iPhone Hacks

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Security researcher: iOS 7 stores email attachments unencrypted even when data protection is on

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