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August 11, 2012, 2:55 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple Offered to License its Patents to Samsung for $30 Per Smartphone, $40 Per Tablet — Apple executives have testified the company was “shocked” when Samsung debuted its first Galaxy phones. But, considering the Korean company was a major supplier, Apple apparently was also willing to make a deal with its rival.

Jose Fermoso / Cult of Mac:

Everything You Need To Know About The Apple vs Samsung Trial [Day 6]

More: The Verge

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Apple breaks down damage claims against Samsung, asks for $2b from Galaxy S profits alone

More: Ars Technica, T3 News, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider and CNET. Tweets: @reckless

Jason Ding / Barracuda Labs:

The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business — Many people dream of becoming popular or famous, and Twitter provides an outlet to make this possible. Most Twitter users try the standard way to get popular and gain followers: constantly tweet funny quotes or comments …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web and Computerworld

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

How YouTube Will Escape Google's New Pirate Penalty — Google has announced that it will soon penalize sites that are repeatedly accused of copyright infringement. But one site in particular doesn't need to worry: Google's own YouTube. It has a unique immunity against the forthcoming penalty.

More: Gizmodo, PC World, Softpedia News, Digital Media Wire, Guardian, AllThingsD, Neowin, The Register, TechnoBuffalo and Techdirt

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The Emanuel Update: Google Will Penalize Sites Repeatedly Accused Of Copyright Infringement — Has someone filed a large number of DMCA “takedown” requests against your site? If so, look out. That's the latest penalty that may cause you to rank lower in Google's search results.

More: A VC, Forbes, Geekosystem, eWeek, RIAA, Engadget, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge and insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk

MG Siegler:

You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain — Over the past month, I've been watching Dalton Caldwell's App.net experiment with much interest. Essentially, he's trying to rebuild Twitter from the ground up, only as a fully user and developer-supported network.

More: The Next Web and GigaOM

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

With three days left, App.net is 70% funded and already has developers building apps with it — We're coming down to the wire for funding Dalton Caldwell's App.net anti-Twitter and Facebook utopia. In an email sent out to those who have backed the project with $50 or more, the team says that the site is officially in “Alpha” mode.

More: Business Insider, Dalton Caldwell, Social Igniter, Techland, Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web, AllTwitter, Gawker and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @scobleizer

RT:

Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system — Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

More: Public Intelligence, Hit & Run, Business Insider, Salon, The Register, VentureBeat, Neowin, Featured stories and Daily Dot

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Facebook drops off the greatest places to work list — A new list of the 25 companies that give employees a good work-life balance has 12 tech companies on it, but the only big name is LinkedIn. And Facebook has fallen off the list since 2011. — Marquee tech companies have always …

More: Mashable!, Pulse2 Technology …, Datamation.com, Business Insider and msnbc.com

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Gmail is getting a new login page to make multiple sign-ins easier to manage — Managing multiple accounts is becoming more important on the Web every day and Google has decided to make it easier for its Gmail users. TNW staffers saw this page flash up, which lets you log in with one of your accounts, or add others:

More: VentureBeat, Techdows, Softpedia News, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology … and 9to5Google. Thanks:@thekenyeung

Don Lehman / The Tech Block:

The unibody iPhone — This is could be one of four things — 1. A very elaborate hoax. If it's a hoax, kudos to whoever made it because it would require the same amount of design and engineering effort that would go into an actual smartphone. Not to mention all of the collaboration …

More: MacRumors, Computerworld and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@abdophoto

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

F.T.C. Will Reconsider Letting Companies Settle While Denying Guilt — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission finished a settlement with Facebook on Friday over allegations that the company had violated its privacy policy, and in the process said it would re-examine its own practice …

More: SocialTimes, The Precursor Blog, Wall Street Journal and Guardian

Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:

NASA uses Amazon's cloud computing in Mars landing mission — Although it boasts having “Earth's biggest selection,” Amazon.com's reach has stretched to Mars. Better known for being an e-commerce giant, Amazon has become a major player in cloud computing, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory using …

More: GeekWire, Pulse2 Technology …, PC World and CNET

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