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May 3, 2014, 10:15 AM

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Jury Finds Samsung Phones Infringe on Several 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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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

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.

More: Re/code, USA Today, SamMobile, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Forbes and SammyToday. Tweets: @fosspatents

Lynn La / CNET News:

Apple v. Samsung 2014 infringed devices scorecard — Now that the jury's verdict is in for Apple v. Samsung, check out what devices were named violating specific patents. — Both the iPhone 5 (left) and the Galaxy S3 have been accused of violating patents in the latest dispute.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac and Tech Trader Daily. Thanks:@jenguevin

James Galbraith / Macworld:

2014 MacBook Air benchmarks: better processor performance but worse flash storage performance in comparison to 2013 models — Lab tested: New 2014 MacBook Air benchmarks — Apple on Tuesday released a minor update to its MacBook Air line of laptops. The changes included a subtle 100MHz increase …

More: MacRumors, iMore and MacNN

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

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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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

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 …

More: Bloomberg, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, The Register, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, The Verge and Wall Street Journal

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 …

More: The Register, Digital Trends, GamesIndustry International, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Re/code, SlashGear, Computerworld, Engadget, Polygon, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, destructoid, The Verge, gameinformer.com and Joystiq. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Now for Android updated to keep cards loaded when you lose service — Google today updated Google Search for Android with a very useful Google Now improvement: cards will now stay loaded even when you lose service. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.

More: Google, AndroidGuys, Android and Me, PC Magazine, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Engadget and Android Central. Tweets: @thenextweb

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.

More: Inside Facebook, Wall Street Journal and AllFacebook. Tweets: @joshelman

Alina Selyukh / Reuters:

Netflix brings net neutrality concerns to U.S. regulators — (Reuters) - After weeks of public outcry, Netflix Inc brought its concerns about Internet neutrality directly to U.S. regulators this week in meetings with Federal Communications Commission staff, according to sources familiar with the matter.

More: BGR and Softpedia News

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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 …

More: BBC, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Re/code, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat and WebProNews. Tweets: @ingridlunden

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