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Jury Finds Samsung Phones Infringe on Two Apple Patents, Awards $119.6 Million — A federal jury ruled Friday that Samsung infringed on at least one of the patents that Apple had sued over in its latest patent case. — The jury found all accused Samsung phones infringed on the first patent at issue …
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Apple wins $119 million in patent damages from Samsung, wanted $2.2 billion: mixed verdict — The Apple v. Samsung II jury didn't want to go into another week of deliberations and rendered a verdict just minutes before the end of the scheduled deliberation time.
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Apple Acquires Power Efficient LED Tech Company LuxVue — Apple has acquired LuxVue Technology, a stealthy company that had been working on micro-LED, screen technologies, we've heard from sources close to the transaction. The company had raised $43 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins, iD Ventures America and others.| John Paczkowski / Re/code: |
Apple won't introduce wearables or a new Apple TV at this year's WWDC — Code/red: No New Apple TV at WWDC — // HAPPENING TODAY — More NewFronts! Today's expected highlight: Vice and its frontman, Shane Smith. — German chancellor and NSA surveillance target Angela Merkel is meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Milestone: Bill Gates no longer Microsoft's largest shareholder, as shares dip below Ballmer's stake — For the first time in Microsoft's history, Bill Gates is no longer the company's largest individual shareholder, as of this afternoon. A stock sale by Gates made public a few minutes ago reduced … | Reuters: |
Comcast nears deal to stream EA games to TVs via its X1 platform — Exclusive - Comcast nears deal to stream EA games to TVs: sources — (Reuters) - Comcast Corp may soon allow customers using its cloud-connected X1 cable box system to buy games from Electronic Arts Inc through their televisions … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Promotes VP Of Product Chris Cox To Chief Product Officer, But No Organizational Change — Chris Cox helped invent News Feed and devised Facebook's “Social By Design” strategy, so now the company is recognizing his critical contributions by promoting the VP Of Product to Chief Product Officer.
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Google Buys Rangespan To Add Big Data Inventory Management To Google Shopping — Google has made another move to build out its e-commerce business, and specifically its retail portal Google Shopping. It has acquired Rangespan, a London-based provider of back office services for online retailers …
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Snapchat acquired AddLive several months ago to power its new video chat — Snapchat made a secret acquisition to power its new video chat — AddLive brings video streaming expertise to the ephemeral app startup — To help build and power its new cross-platform video chat service …
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Kickstarter fraud: Washington files first consumer protection lawsuit involving crowdfunding — If you raise money via Kickstarter and don't deliver products you promised backers, the government will come after you. In what is the first consumer protection lawsuit involving crowdfunding … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
NVIDIA Jetson TK1 “supercomputer kit” hits shelves — NVIDIA's palm-sized supercomputer, the Jetson TK1, has begun shipping, offering developers 192 Tegra K1 cores to turn to things like feature-detection and tracking, object recognition, and 3D scene analysis.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Joe Belfiore says File Manager coming to WP 8.1 this month, hints Cortana coming to PCs, promises Skype and Facebook app updates — Windows Phone 8.1 to get File Manager ‘by the end of May,’ Cortana gets feedback site and hint of PC version — Joe Belfiore, the corporate vice president …
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