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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, The Next Web, The Verge, MacRumors, IntoMobile, Mercury News, Macworld, Reuters, VentureBeat, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, Neowin, Electronista, FierceMobileIT News and Cult of Mac. 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, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and Fortune

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @jyarow and @lessien

Ina Fried / Re/code:

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

More: AppleInsider and TUAW

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Amazon launches #AmazonCart, a new way to shop without leaving Twitter — Amazon is today rolling out an interesting new feature called #AmazonCart, which lets you add Amazon products to your shopping basket without leaving Twitter. — To use the feature, you first have to connect …

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.

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, Wall Street Journal, CNET News and CoinDesk

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, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Boing Boing and Mashable. Tweets: @mathewi. Thanks:@wauckward. See also Mediagazer

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, ZDNet, Computerworld, WindowsITPro, Business Wire, BetaNews, USA Today and Network World

Jenna Owens / Google Commerce:

Google Shopping Express expands same-day delivery to Manhattan and West Los Angeles — Suddenly realize that you're designated snack mom tomorrow and don't have time to run to the store? Or need to bring a new board game to this week's game night but would rather avoid traffic altogether?

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, PandoDaily, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, App Advice, Apple Bitch, Lastest ITProPortal news, AppleInsider, CNET News, 9to5Mac, FierceWireless, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, InvestorPlace, The Verge and Softpedia News

Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:

Target Replaces CEO Steinhafel Following Massive Holiday Breach — Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan to Replace Steinhafel on an Interim Basis — Target Corp. replaced Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel on Monday, removing a 35-year “lifer” who won plaudits for his merchandising ability …

More: Target Pressroom, Business Insider, ZDNet, CNET, Re/code, VentureBeat, Reuters, WindowsITPro, ABC News, Associated Press, Businessweek, SecurityWeek, BGR, bizjournals, Mashable, TechCrunch, Engadget, NPR, The Verge, ZDNet and WebProNews. Tweets: @briankrebs

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

No Regrets for the Founder of Tumblr After Yahoo Sale — When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion a year ago, it sent a ripple of excitement — and anxiety — through the tech industry. Would Yahoo and its recently arrived chief executive, Marissa Mayer, breathe new life into Tumblr?

More: Forbes, Business Insider, Re/code, Entrepreneur, ZDNet, The Next Web and Gigaom

Tweets: @hunterwalk, @caseynewton, @jennydeluxe and @eric_andersen

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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: Beyond Bandwidth, Engadget, Gigaom, Vox and PandoDaily

Tweets: @binarybits and @ajblum

Facebook:

Facebook launches new video metrics in Page Insights and Ads Reporting — Coming Soon: Video Metrics — With the goal of helping you better understand how people respond to your videos on Facebook, today we're announcing that new video metrics in Page Insights and Ads Reporting are coming soon.

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, Marketing Pilgrim, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, AdExchanger, ReelSEO Video Marketing and WebProNews

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

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

More: Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch. Thanks:@harrisonweber

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: Re/code, Optimizely Blog, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Fortune, silicontap.com, PE Hub Blog and Moz Blog

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

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Oculus denies John Carmack stole VR tech from his former employer — When word came out last week that Oculus VR chief technology officer John Carmack was being accused by his former employer of stealing intellectual property for use in his new gig, the nascent Facebook subsidiary only issue …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET News, The Verge, Computerworld, GameSpot, Turnstyle, SlashGear, Giant Bomb, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Ars Technica and destructoid

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Kabbage Grows: The Online Platform For Small Business Loans Raises Another $50M — Kabbage made waves last month when it closed a $270 million credit facility to pass on to small businesses that use its online platform to borrow working capital and extend credit lines.

More: VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Security researcher: iOS 7 stores email attachments unencrypted even when data protection is on — Researcher claims iOS 7 (including current 7.1.1) does not encrypt email attachments, Apple aware of issue — Security researcher Andreas Kurtz has discovered that versions of iOS 7 …

Paul Ford / Medium:

A software canon, five great works: Word, Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix, Emacs — The Great Works of Software — Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed?

More: ParisLemon. Tweets: @bfeld and @smashingmag

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