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| James Allworth / HBR.org: |
Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? — The web has been alight these past few weeks with the details of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit. It's been a unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain of how these two companies operate, as the trial seeks to answer the question: did Samsung copy Apple?
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Samsung's deleted Apple e-mail problem goes poof — Judge neutralizes a potentially damaging jury instruction — FORTUNE — The text at right is what Judge Judy Koh was prepared to tell the jury about the Samsung's policy of automatically deleting e-mails that might have been relevant to its patent battle with Apple (AAPL).
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| Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits: |
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
What WSJ got wrong about Groupon — Are VCs really backing away from Groupon? — FORTUNE — Have you heard that early Groupon (GRPN) investors are bailing on the company? Well, some of them. Maybe less than half. But one of them is a big name, so it must mean the entire Internet sector is screwed.| Wall Street Journal: |
Groupon Investors Give Up — Backers Retreat From Young Internet Firms That Haven't Lived Up to Hopes — Some of the early backers of Groupon Inc., including Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen, are heading for the exits, joining investors who have lost faith in companies that had been expected to drive a new Internet boom.
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| Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat: |
Groupon is threatening small merchants with lawsuits — This is a guest post, written by analyst and frequent VentureBeat contributor Rocky Agrawal. — Desperate times call for desperate measures. — I've noticed an uptick in recent months of the emails I'm getting from small businesses claiming … | Jack Marshall / Digiday: |
How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004 — The knock on Facebook is often that it doesn't have its ad strategy figured out. That might be, but the company courted advertisers pretty much from the get-go. — As captured in “The Social Network,” Facebook's then-CFO Eduardo Saverin … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Next-Generation iPhone Dock/Headphone Jack Assembly Paired with Rear Shell — Following up on last week's photos of iPad mini and next-generation iPhone parts including Apple's new, smaller dock connector and the bottom-mounted headphone jack, parts and repair firm iResQ has taken the iPhone part …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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| Steven M. Davidoff / DealBook: |
How Instagram Could Have Cut a Better Deal — In hindsight, perhaps Instagram should have cut a different deal with Facebook. — In April, Facebook agreed to acquire Instagram, the hot social media photo-sharing site, in a deal valued at the time at about $1 billion.
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple stores see 300 million visitors in FY 2012, 50,000 Genius Bar visits a day — Apple opened its 374 and 375 retail store worldwide this weekend in Canada. While meeting with Apple, I was able to get a few details about how the retail operation is going overall.
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Early Facebook Investor and Board Member Peter Thiel Sells Nearly All Of His Company Shares — Billionaire Peter Thiel sold nearly all of his remaining Facebook shares last week according to a financial document filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Becomes Most Valuable Publicly-Traded Stock Ever — Milestones for Apple's stock are falling rapidly in recent days, with another strong performance today pushing Apple past Microsoft for the title of most valuable publicly-trade stock ever, a distinction Microsoft has held since December 1999.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Register, Business Insider, NetworkWorld.com …, ABCNEWS, MarketBeat, Electronista, The Next Web, iPhone, CNNMoney.com, memeburn, WebProNews, PhoneArena, GeekWire, CNET, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Examiner, Fortune, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Macgasm, Guardian, SlashGear, Business Insider, everythingiCafe, Pulse2 Technology … and RazorianFly. Tweets: @asymco. See also Mediagazer
| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
AT&T's FaceTime Restrictions Could Be Violating F.C.C. Rules — When Apple releases its next version of its mobile operating system iOS this fall, iPhone customers will have the option to place FaceTime video calls over the cellular network, whereas before they could do so only on Wi-Fi.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Sought To Beat IPhone With Galaxy Nexus, Apple Says — Apple Inc. (AAPL) said its largest smartphone competitor, Samsung Electronics Co., set out to steal market share by selling a Galaxy Nexus phone that copies its features, including one that makes the iPhone's Siri virtual personal assistant so compelling.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Judge: Google didn't comply with blogger disclosure order in Oracle trial — Summary: “Google suggests that it has paid so many commenters that it will be impossible to list them all. Please simply do your best but the impossible is not required,” says Judge William Alsup. — Larry Dignan
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| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
Sqrrl Raises $2 Million For Secure, Scalable Big Data Technology Originally Developed At NSA — Sqrrl, a big data startup that came out of development at the National Security Agency (NSA), has raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture.
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| iFixit: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Teardown — Join us as we dissect Samsung's newest tablet and attempt to find anything noteworthy inside. EditStep 1 — Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Teardown We've got our hands on a brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Before we tear it open to reveal its secrets … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Ethernet's future: How fast is fast enough? — Your PC may not need a faster network, but overall data usage on the Web is doubling every year. The big question: Can the venerable Ethernet standard handle a terabit per second? — Slow network speeds got you down?
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Motorola's New Patent Lawsuit Against Apple: The Details — On Friday, Google's Motorola Mobility filed a new lawsuit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, seeking to ban the imports of virtually every Apple product into the U.S. At the time …
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eWeek, FOSS Patents and MacDailyNews
| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft radically overhauls license agreements for Windows 8 — Summary: For Windows 8, Microsoft has completely rewritten its license agreements, replacing legalese with plain language and for the first time allowing retail customers to legally install cheaper OEM versions. Here's what's new.
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Synaptics spills more details on ForcePad, a pressure-sensitive trackpad coming to laptops in 2013 — We spend an awful lot of time in laptop reviews railing against modern trackpads — you know, the ones that mistake left clicks for right ones, or have a really stiff button mechanism.
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AnandTech, CNET, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile and AllThingsD
| Surur / WMPoweruser: |
StatCounter data shows Windows Phone overtaking Blackberry in US by November 2012 — More by virtue of Blackberry's plummeting market share than amazing Windows Phone growth, it seems the installed base of Windows Phone is set to overtake that of Blackberry in US by the end of November 2012 (around week 47).
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Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, WebProNews, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Computerworld and Ars Technica. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system? — Google's public policy director says at an Aspen conference that “these patent wars are not helpful to consumers.” — ASPEN, Colo. — Google suggested today that it might be time for the U.S. to ditch software patents.
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