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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, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and iMore

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

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

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: Android Central, SlashGear, CNET News, Phandroid, Glass Almanac, 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, Redmond Pie, App Advice, ZDNet, Pocketnow, BGR, Apple Bitch, PandoDaily, iMore, Lastest ITProPortal news, Ubergizmo, SiliconBeat, AppleInsider, FierceWireless, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo and CNET 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, PC World, The Verge, ZDNet, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, Re/code, Gizmodo, Mashable, SlashGear and Android Central

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: N4BB, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, CNET News and AppleTell

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

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

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

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: BuzzFeed, Neowin and Constant & Endless

Tweets: @laurengoode and @caseynewton

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

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. Tweets: @nicolastorzec

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

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, The Register, PC World, Business Wire, BetaNews and USA Today. Tweets: @securityhumor

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: Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, Communications …, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch. Thanks:@harrisonweber

Steven Loeb / VatorNews:

Zendesk sets IPO price range between $8 and $10 a share — Zendesk does not seem to be spooked by the same market conditions that caused Box to delay — The market has not been too kind fo cloud companies in the last few months. Just ask Box about that.

More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and bizjournals

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, Cult of Mac, Electronista and iPhone in Canada Blog

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.

More: The Verge, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, SlashGear, Geek.com, HotHardware.com News, I4U News, Unwired View, Pocketnow, GadgeTell, AndroidGuys, PC Magazine, BGR and Android and Me

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

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 …

More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and Quartz. 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, PandoDaily and CNET News

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, Nextgov, PC World, The Register, OStatic blogs and theWHIR.com. See also Mediagazer

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, Android Police, Mashable and Android Central

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