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August 26, 2012, 6:05 AM

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Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Exclusive: Apple-Samsung juror speaks out — Manuel Ilagan, one of the nine jurors who ruled in favor of Apple, tells CNET he thought Samsung's internal e-mails about incorporating some of Apple's technology into its devices, and the evasive way Samsung executives answered questions, was damning.

More: Android News, Rumours …, Redmond Pie, VentureBeat, Mashable!, AllThingsD, ZDNet and AppleInsider

Groklaw:

Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced — Uh Oh. What's Wrong With this Picture? — Late in the process yesterday at the Apple v. Samsung trial, when the parties and the judge were reviewing the jury verdict form, Samsung noticed that there were, indeed, inconsistencies …

More: Above the Law, madisonian.net, Associated Press, Fortune, The Verge, AllThingsD and TechnoBuffalo

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @dangillmor

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Will Apple now sue Google? — Maybe eventually. But Apple is working its way up the food chain, and it's got a full plate — FORTUNE — There was an elephant in the courtroom when Apple (AAPL) won its billion-dollar patent infringement award against Samsung Friday, and its name is Google (GOOG).

More: brian s hall, AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, Guardian and Techie Buzz

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

Copying Works: How Samsung's Decision to Mimic Apple Paid Off in Spades — In the fall of 2008, just a year after it released the iPhone, Apple became the most profitable phone maker in the world. The milestone wasn't much remarked upon by the press. At the time, Apple was still selling …

More: VentureBeat and The Next Web. Tweets: @danfrakes

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Jury didn't want to let Samsung off easy in Apple trial

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook tells Apple employees that today's victory ‘is about values’

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Analysis: Sweeping Apple win, but Samsung set for bounce-back

More: Enrique Gutierrez, Forbes, GigaOM, GigaOM, Guardian and SiliconANGLE

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Apple vs. Samsung: the jury's final verdict form shows the breadth of Apple's win

More: AllThingsD, Cult of Mac, BetaNews, CNET and The Next Web

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Apple Stock Reaches New All-Time High Following Verdict, Up 1.70% To $674.48 After Hours

More: Los Angeles Times, USA Today, AllThingsD, Liliputing and The Next Web

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Confirmed: New iPad Mini to Debut in October, After Latest Apple iPhone's September Bow — Apple's next generation iPhone and its so-called “iPad mini” will debut at two separate events this fall, rather than a single one as has been widely speculated, according to several sources.

Nick O'Neill:

There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks — Sarah Lacy calls acquihires a payday lending scheme. I have to disagree. There are a number off issues at play here but some counter-points to her whole thesis: — Not all failed startups are acquihired …

Tweets: @carnage4life and @spencerchen

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

The Acqui-hire Scourge: Whatever Happened to Failure in Silicon Valley? — Oh, look, Facebook acquired another company. Must be Friday. — It's fashionable to bitch about valuations, but it's acqui-hires that are quickly becoming the payday lending schemes of the startup world.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @rabois, @sriramk, @owenthomas and @rafat

David Pogue / Scientific American:

How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy — The death of the DVD is pushing users to piracy — Face it, movie fans: the DVD is destined to be dead as a doornail. — Only a few Blockbuster stores are still open. Netflix's CEO says, “We expect DVD subscribers to decline steadily every quarter, forever.”

More: Techdirt, MPAA Blog, TorrentFreak and Daring Fireball

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Sweet! Mayer Declares That It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time at Yahoo — Remember the infamous “Peanut Manifesto,” in which former Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse likened the company's innovation process to peanut butter? — In it, he wrote: — “I've heard our strategy described …

Avi Charkham / TechCrunch:

5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions — Editor's note: Avi Charkham is Head of Product & Design @ lool ventures, an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel and the incubators of MyPermissions personal cloud security service.

Scott Lowe / The Verge:

Samsung teases transforming Windows 8 notebook announcement — Not to be outdone by Asus' Tablet 600, Samsung has begun teasing what appears to be a new transforming Windows 8 notebook in a video posted to its official YouTube page. As Neowin reports, the video flashes glimpses …

More: CNET, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Neowin and digitaltrends.com

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Kleiner To Invest More Than $100 Million In Enterprise — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will more than double its investments in mobile applications for corporate users, as well as technology used to remotely manage software and hardware, investment partner Matt Murphy said.

More: VentureBeat

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