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August 5, 2012, 4:24 AM

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Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Secrets Revealed at Trial  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—Apple Inc., one of the world's most secretive companies, is finding there's a price in pushing its grievances against rival Samsung Electronics Co. in federal court: disclosure.  —  In just the first few days of its patent trial this week …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World's Biggest Spam Networks  —  As Spring cracked the Moscow frosts and March rains doused the streets, a computer in an innocuous server farm somewhere in the heart of the city winked to life.  It was 2007, a year when many people became truly invested in online life.
More: The Verge
New York Times:
Nissan's Move to U.S. Offers Lessons for Tech Industry  —  SMYRNA, Tenn. — The dairy farms that once draped the countryside here were paved over so the Japanese carmaker Nissan could build its first American assembly plant.  Eighty miles to the south, another green pasture was replaced …
More: ForbesTweets: @chcktylr
Matt McGee / Marketing Land:
Facebook Questions Has Died A Quiet Death  —  Has anyone seen Facebook Questions lately?  —  Oh sure, you've seen questions on Facebook.  And you've probably asked questions on facebook — the “Ask Question” option is alive and well on the status box, as you can see above.
DealBook:
Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch  —  When computerized stock trading runs amok, as it did this week on Wall Street, the firm responsible typically can jump in and hit a kill switch.  —  But as a torrent of faulty trades spewed Wednesday morning from a Knight Capital Group trading program …
More: TNL.net, Reuters and Slate
Mat Honan / Emptyage:
Yes, I was hacked.  Hard.  —  So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight.  Or you saw Gizmodo's Twitter account blow up.  Or you saw this in AllThingsD.  Or this in the DailyDot.  Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least of it.  In short, someone gained entry to my iCloud account …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
4Chan reaches one billion posts  —  4Chan today announced an impressive new milestone — to date the site has seen a total of one billion posts.  The achievement was reached yesterday, though 4Chan points out that it's not quite sure which post was actually the billionth.
More: Softpedia News, Daily Dot and WebProNewsTweets: @4chan
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Facebook Faces Norway Probe Over Facial-Recognition Tags  —  Facebook Inc. (FB) is being probed by Norway's data-protection regulator over concerns a facial- recognition program that automatically suggests people's names to tag in pictures breaches privacy rights.
More: CNET and VentureBeat
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
iPhone 5 event rumors pump eBay smartphone trade-ins  —  The online sales site says that more people than usual are trading in their smartphones on rumors that Apple has a new iPhone just around the corner.  —  Follow @Josh  —  iPhone 4's lined up at an Apple store when the product launched in 2010.
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
Look Ma, TV!  First broadcast TV phone appears on MetroPCS  —  Starting now, MetroPCS is in the free-to-air TV business, but the sets it's selling are rather small, fitting not only into the palm of your hand but within the confines of a smartphone screen.  MetroPCS on Friday began selling …

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