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Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple-Samsung Jury Recalculates Verdict, but Leaves Intact Original $119 Million Award — A federal jury in San Jose on Monday recalculated its damage award, but left essentially intact its decision that Samsung owes Apple nearly $120 million in damages. — The move follows …

More: CNET, TUAW, IntoMobile, The Verge, Reuters, VentureBeat, Electronista, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, App Advice and Neowin. Tweets: @josh

Kurt Eichenwald / Vanity Fair:

The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung — For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with the super-secret project that created the iPhone …

More: Daring Fireball, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and Fortune

Tweets: @thelancearthur, @lessien, @jamesallworth, @jyarow and @fmanjoo

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Apple-Samsung Jurors Say Google's Role Intriguing, but Didn't Determine Outcome

More: Cult of Mac and AppleInsider

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass — Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.”

More: CNET News, Glass Almanac, Android Central, SlashGear, Phandroid, 9to5Google, Android and Me and Pocketnow

Christina Farr / Reuters:

Insight: Apple on medical tech hiring spree, a possible hint of iWatch plans — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is building a team of senior medical technology executives, raising hackles in the biotechnology community and offering a hint of what the iPhone maker may be planning for its widely expected iWatch and other wearable technology.

More: MacRumors, BGR, App Advice, Pocketnow, Redmond Pie, iMore, Lastest ITProPortal news, Ubergizmo, PandoDaily, Apple Bitch, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, FierceWireless, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, CNET News and Softpedia News

Brian Fagioli / BetaNews:

Lenovo announces two new 11.6-inch Chromebooks: the N20 for $279 and the N20p starting at $329 — Lenovo announces N20 and N20p Chromebooks — I think it safe to say that the Chromebook movement has exceeded all expectations. What first seemed like a silly Google experiment has blossomed into a legit Windows threat.

More: Engadget, ZDNet, PC World, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, Re/code, Gizmodo, Android Central, SlashGear and Mashable

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

VC Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won't Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will — Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures, one of the top tech investors around, believes that by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world — Apple — will cease to be the most important, and won't even be in the top three.

More: Daring Fireball, CNET News, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wall Street Journal and CoinDesk

Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:

Symantec says antivirus is dead, plans turnaround with products to help businesses minimize damages from security breaches — Symantec Develops New Attack on Cyberhacking — Declaring Antivirus Software Dead, Firm Turns to Minimizing Damage From Breaches

More: ZDNet, Ars Technica, The Register, PC World, Business Wire, BetaNews, USA Today and WindowsITPro

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

@WalmartLabs Buys Adtech Startup Adchemy, Its Biggest Talent Deal Yet — @WalmartLabs, the retailer's Silicon Valley-based innovation lab and R&D center, has now made its twelfth acquisition with the purchase of e-commerce technology company Adchemy, its biggest deal yet in terms of people.

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal and Walmart Labs

FaryaabS / SamMobile:

Exclusive: Samsung GALAXY Tab S - 2560×1600 AMOLED Display, Exynos 5 Octa, Fingerprint sensor and more — We are now in 2nd quarter of 2014 and Samsung has released 7 tablets, already. However, the Korean giant isn't stopping just yet. Samsung has a brand new tablet lineup in the pipeline and its calling it the GALAXY Tab S.

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple is aware of iOS 7 mail attachment bug, working on a fix — A bug has been discovered in iOS 7 that causes email attachments to not be encrypted. Before anyone panics, however, in order for an attacker to exploit the bug they'd need to a) steal your device and, b) …

More: ZDNet, CNET News, AppleTell and iPhone Hacks

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Security researcher: iOS 7 stores email attachments unencrypted even when data protection is on

More: Andreas Kurtz, Inside BlackBerry, Neowin, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, PadGadget and MacRumors

Tim Cushing / Techdirt:

US government begins testing national online ID system in Michigan and Pennsylvania — US Government Begins Rollout Of Its 'Driver's License For The Internet' — An idea the government has been kicking around since 2011 is finally making its debut. Calling this move ill-timed would be the most gracious way of putting it.

More: GCN, Ecumenical News and VentureBeat

Tweets: @hornokplease, @scottesposito and @alanbleiweiss

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

After Facebook Deal, Moves App Changes Privacy Policy — Moves, the fitness-tracking app recently acquired by Facebook, has changed its privacy policy to allow broader sharing of user data, including with Facebook. — As recently as Friday, Moves's privacy policy said the company did not …

More: Neowin and Constant & Endless. Tweets: @laurengoode and @caseynewton

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

John McAfee launches Chadder, a new encrypted private messaging app — Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee has launched a new messaging app called Chadder, with a focus on encryption and security. — The app is produced by Future Tense Private Systems (FTC), a company founded by McAfee …

More: Business Insider, PR Newswire, PC World, Electronista, CNET News, TechSpot, The Register, Ubergizmo, Tom's Guide, Gigaom, WinBeta, iMore, Boing Boing, Engadget, Android Community, Softpedia News and AmongTech

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple welcomes new Senior VP Angela Ahrendts with 113,334 AAPL shares worth $68M — An SEC filing has revealed that Apple granted its incoming retail Angela Ahrendts 113,334 shares in the company. At today's price (which hit $600 for the first time since the end of 2012), that comes out to about $68 million.

More: MacRumors, CNET News, MacRumors, Electronista and iPhone in Canada Blog

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Google Search competitor DuckDuckGo teases major revamp, beautiful new design — DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine that skyrocketed in size following mass-surveillance leaks, will soon be completely redesigned. — According to a blog post from DuckDuckGo chief executive Gabriel Weinberg …

More: Communications …, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch. Thanks:@harrisonweber

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

With Alibaba IPO Filing Set to Arrive Tomorrow, Here's Why It Does Matter to Silicon Valley — As Re/code has reported several times, the sure-to-be-blockbuster IPO filing for China's mega-Internet giant Alibaba Group is now set to drop this week. Sources said that the documents …

Tweets: @dmac1

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Level 3 claims six ISPs dropping packets every day over money disputes — Network provider doesn't name and shame ISPs guilty of “permanent congestion.” — Network operator Level 3, which has asked the FCC to protect it from “arbitrary access charges” that ISPs want in exchange …

More: Level 3 Blog, Vox, Gigaom, Engadget and PandoDaily

Tweets: @binarybits and @ajblum

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Mozilla's crazy plan to fix net neutrality and turn broadband into a utility - and why it could work — Well here's an interesting twist on the net neutrality debate. Mozilla, the open source foundation behind the Firefox browser, thinks that it has found a legal way to get the Federal …

More: Open Policy, SlashGear, The Verge, Washington Post, Ars Technica, BGR, CNET News, PC World, Nextgov, The Register, OStatic blogs and theWHIR.com. See also Mediagazer

Re/code:

WordPress.com Parent Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other Web publishing tools, has raised $160 million from investors, including Insight Venture Partners, CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed.

More: Matt Mullenweg, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Mashable. Tweets: @mathewi. Thanks:@wauckward. See also Mediagazer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Website Testing Company Optimizely Raises $57M Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz — Looks like Andreessen Horowitz sees a big opportunity in A/B testing — the venture firm is leading a $57 million Series B round of funding in Optimizely. — Andreessen partner Scott Weiss …

More: Optimizely Blog, Re/code, VentureBeat, VatorNews, silicontap.com, PE Hub Blog and Fortune. Tweets: @flytip

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Now for Android updated to alert you of nearby stores with products you've searched for — Google today updated Google Search for Android with a new shopping feature: a card that lets you know about stores nearby that carry products you've previously researched on Google.

More: The Verge, Google, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, Android Police and Android Central

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