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May 5, 2014, 11:35 PM

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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 Verge, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, TUAW, The Next Web, Reuters, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, App Advice, Electronista 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, AppleInsider and TUAW

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

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, CoinDesk and Wall Street Journal

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, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Business Wire, BetaNews, WindowsITPro and USA Today

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.

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: 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, Ubergizmo, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, TUAW, MacRumors, PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, BGR, iLounge, Softpedia News, MacNN and The Register

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

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, CNET News, Engadget and PandoDaily

Tweets: @binarybits and @ajblum

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

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: @scottesposito, @alanbleiweiss and @hornokplease

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, CNET News, PC World, TechSpot, The Register, Ubergizmo, Tom's Guide, WinBeta, iMore, Gigaom, Boing Boing, Engadget, Android Community, Softpedia News and AmongTech

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 …

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, VatorNews, VentureBeat, silicontap.com, PE Hub Blog and Fortune

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

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

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, ABC News, Associated Press, WindowsITPro, ZDNet, bizjournals, Businessweek, Engadget, BGR, NPR, SecurityWeek, TechCrunch, The Verge and Mashable. 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: Business Insider, Forbes, Re/code and Entrepreneur

Tweets: @hunterwalk and @jennydeluxe

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