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

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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: Digital Trends, CNET, TUAW, IntoMobile, Reuters, Electronista, VentureBeat, MacRumors, 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: Neowin, Android Central, CNET News, Glass Almanac, Phandroid, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Android and Me and Pocketnow

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, Computerworld, Mashable, The Verge, PC World, Electronista, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Re/code, Gigaom, Android Central, ZDNet and LAPTOP Magazine

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 …

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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) …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

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

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

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.

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Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Google experimenting with hiding URLs in Chrome — Summary: In an effort to make phishing attacks more evident to the user, Chrome Canary is taking a tip from iOS Safari, emphasizing the domain and hiding the rest of the URL. — Jake Archibald, a “developer advocate” for Chrome at Google …

More: Jake Archibald, Disconnected, VentureBeat, PC World, Geek.com, Mashable, SC Magazine, Ubergizmo, The Register, VentureBreak and Liliputing

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

Pros and cons of three key materials used to make smartphones: plastic, glass, and metal — A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile — Within the past four years, the smartphone market has changed drastically. Displays have dramatically increased in quality. Battery life has increased.

More: Gizmodo

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, SlashGear, 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: Tech.eu, TechCrunch, Quartz and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @dmac1

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 … and Search Engine Land. Thanks:@harrisonweber

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Hands-on: Android based Pwn Phone, a mobile penetration testing platform for white hat hackers — Android-based Pwn Phone is prepared to do evil for your network's own good — The Pwn Phone, with its external Wi-Fi adaptor case jacked into its USB port, is prepared to do evil for your network's own good.

More: Android Authority and BGR

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

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, Walmart Labs and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @nicolastorzec

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, Digital Trends, Conversation Agent, Ubergizmo and CNET News

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

EMC acquires Flash startup DSSD — Summary: EMC takes out stealth startup DSSD and plans to operate the Flash systems company as a standalone unit. — EMC said Monday that it has acquired DSSD, a stealth Flash storage system provider. — DSSD has developed a rack scale storage tier …

More: Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, The Register, Wall Street Journal and ZDNet

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: @ajblum and @binarybits

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

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.

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