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August 5, 2013, 10:45 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles — Ruling Promises to Alter Strategies Some Tech Giants Use to Defend Inventions — By - IAN SHERR and - BRENT KENDALL - — The Obama administration's decision to overturn an international trade ruling against Apple Inc. …

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Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:

South Korea says concerned about U.S. decision on some Apple models — (Reuters) - The South Korean government on Monday expressed concerns about the decision by the United States to overrule a sales ban of some Apple Inc (AAPL.O) models. — The Obama administration vetoed a U.S. trade panel's ban …

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

How the ITC forced a veto in the Samsung-Apple patent case

More: BGR, Computerworld, Techdirt, Computerworld Blogs and FOSS Patents. Thanks:@philiped

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook Hires First CMO Gary Briggs from Google — Mr. Briggs Replaces VP-Product Marketing Eric Antonow — Facebook has tapped a seasoned technology marketing executive most recently with Google to be its first-ever CMO. — Gary Briggs, who'd previously been chief marketer …

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Samsung Notes New Galaxy Coming At Sept. 4 Event in Berlin — Samsung on Monday announced plans to launch a new Galaxy device at a Sept. 4 event in Berlin. — The handwritten design of the invitation suggests that perhaps the event might serve as a launch point for the next Galaxy Note, which has been expected to launch this fall.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google adds touch-friendly Chrome features in latest test version — Google appears to be readying a number of touch-friendly features for its Chrome browser. In the latest nightly Canary build, a new slide-to-navigate feature has been added that lets you swipe left or right to go backwards and forwards on web pages.

More: 9to5Google, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Engadget and Softpedia News

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Feedly goes Pro: $5 per month for better search, security and more — Log into your free 'n easy Feedly RSS service this morning and you may be offered the opportunity to make it less free, but potentially even easier to use. An upgrade to Feedly Pro will normally cost $5 per month or $45 per year …

More: ReadWrite, WebProNews, The Next Web, The Verge, Softpedia News and Electronista

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Spotify's new Browse feature surfaces the best of its billion playlists — After spending the last several months rolling out Discover and Radio, two big pieces of its music discovery puzzle, Spotify is today introducing a critical third piece: Browse, a collection of the service's best playlists on iOS and Android.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Now Lets Jobseekers Apply For Positions Directly Via Its Mobile Apps — Last month, LinkedIn introduced the ability for users of its social network for the working world to search for jobs via its iOS and Android mobile apps. Now it will let jobseekers seal the deal, so to speak …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Softpedia News

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Airport car-sharing startup FlightCar will pay you up to $400 per month to rent out your car — Airport car-sharing service FlightCar, a startup which helps car owners make money off of their idle vehicles, has just launched FlightCar Monthly: a new program in public beta that will pay …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Xconomy

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

GM's plan to turn the car into a smartphone on wheels — At CES in January both Ford and General Motors unveiled their connected car open development plans, but the two automakers couldn't have been different in how they followed up. Ford immediately started pumping out new apps for its Sync AppLink platform, but GM kept quiet.

Thanks:@kfitchard

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

Android one-click Google authentication method puts users, businesses at risk — A feature that allows Android users to authenticate themselves on Google websites without having to enter their account password can be abused by rogue apps to give attackers access to Google accounts …

More: 9to5Google

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