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November 11, 2012, 4:00 AM

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Apple:
HTC and Apple Settle Patent Dispute  —  All Patent Litigation Between the Companies Dismissed  —  HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement.  The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties.
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Apple and HTC settle all patent litigation with 10 year license agreement  —  Apple and HTC have settled their patent dispute, with all current lawsuits dismissed, according to an HTC press release.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Does Apple's HTC Agreement Indicate A Softening Of Its Approach To Patent Litigation?  —  Apple and HTC today announced jointly a settlement of all ongoing patent litigation between the two, in a licensing agreement with a 10-year term, any further terms of which were not released.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Seriously, Apple Is Doomed  —  Dan Crow, another former Apple employee from the 1990s, also says Apple has shown itself to be doomed without Steve Jobs, in a piece for The Guardian headlined “We've Passed Peak Apple”: … On the contrary, for better or for worse, iOS 6 Maps is exactly …
Christopher Mims / Quartz:
How much would you pay to never see an online ad again?  —  The little white box that companies who charge for content rather than advertising against it should probably give away for free.  AdTrap  —  Imagine a $120 box that sits between your cable modem (the box that brings the internet into your house) …
Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
David Petraeus Was Brought Down by ... Gmail  —  The CIA director's path to resignation began with some email messages.  —  Reuters/Joshua Roberts  —  While David Petraeus was serving as a four-star general in the U.S. Army, he began exchanging emails with the woman who would eventually write his biography.
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Apple loses bid to nix patent troll's ‘screen rotation’ suit  —  Court rules that patent lawsuit against Apple can go to a jury.  At issue: whether the iPhone's screen rotation and call rejection features violate patents originally held by Sony and Nokia.  —  You might think it's obvious …
Louis Goddard / The Verge:
UK court orders Apple to pay Samsung's legal fees in full after ‘false and misleading’ notice  —  The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ordered Apple to pay the legal fees of competitor Samsung on an ‘indemnity basis’ after the company published a “false and misleading” notice in the wake of a patent lawsuit over the iPad.
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Outbrain Expects 25% Revenue Hit As It Cuts Off Spammy Content Marketers  —  Move Seeks to Eliminate Deceptive Headlines and Get-Rich-Quick Schemes to Improve Quality  —  Content-recommendation engine Outbrain is banning some of its biggest customers from buying web traffic through its service …
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
RIM Plans To Woo Would-Be BlackBerry 10 Game Developers With Money And Hardware  —  As work on BlackBerry 10 continues behind closed doors, Waterloo-based RIM is gearing up to make yet another attempt to woo would-be BlackBerry 10 developers to its cause.  —  This time though the company …

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