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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Motorola Mobility won a formal injunction against Apple in Germany over two patents — UPDATE: it's not “totally symbolic” — Apple knows what it's like to win injunctions against rivals. It won four of them against Samsung (two in Germany, one in the Netherlands and most recently one in Australia; all of them preliminary).
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Motorola wins German patent injunction against Apple, but it's not what it seems — The international patent wars seemed to have gotten far hotter for a moment this evening, as FOSS Patents reported that Motorola Mobility had won a German injunction against Apple that could theoretically prevent …
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Verizon API To Give Apps ‘Turbo’ Bandwidth Boost — Verizon will publish an API that could allow consumers to “turbocharge” the network bandwidth their smartphone apps use for a small fee, executives said Tuesday. — Verizon anticipates that a customer running an app on a smartphone …
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Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Check Out The Millionaires (And Billionaires) Groupon's IPO Minted Today — Groupon's first day of trading has come to an end, with the company's shares closing at $26.11 — 30.6 percent higher than Groupon's IPO price of $20. — That's minted billionaires out of the founders and amounted to a nice payout for its investors.
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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
A Good Day for Groupon and Internet Start-Ups — After a months-long journey filled with blunders, Groupon punched its ticket to the public markets on Friday. And the daily deals site got a warm reception, a welcome sign for Internet start-ups still waiting to go public.
Lynn Cowan / Wall Street Journal:
Groupon Closes Up 31% — Daily deals site Groupon Inc. closed …
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Joe Flint / Company Town:
Lost Steve Jobs interview headed to the big screen — Steve Jobs is coming to a theater near you. — Missing footage from an interview Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did almost 20 years for a landmark miniseries that ran on PBS in the United States and Channel 4 in Britain has resurfaced …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Source: Apple pushed security executive out — Cava 22, the bar where an Apple employee lost control of an unreleased device sometime around July 22. — Against a backdrop of lost unreleased devices and allegations that its security personnel impersonated policemen, Apple forced its chief …
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AllThingsD, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin.net, MacNN, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Gizmodo UK and MacRumors
Adeo Ressi / TechCrunch:
Don't Launch A Company, Launch A Fund (Or The Series A Will Die) — Editor's note: This guest post is authored by Adeo Ressi, who is the founder of The Founder Institute and TheFunded.com. You can follow him on Twitter here. — Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — Three times over the last two years, school officials from Little Falls, Minn., have escaped the winter cold for two-day trips to Silicon Valley. Their destination: the headquarters of Apple.
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Audrey Watters / Hack Education:
Khan Academy Gets $5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a Physical School — Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O'Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O'Sullivan).
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Andrew Pollack / New York Times:
John R. Opel, Who Made I.B.M. a Colossus, Dies at 86 — John R. Opel, who presided over I.B.M. in its final period of dominance in the information-processing industry and oversaw the company's move into personal computers, died on Thursday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 86.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former Polaris Venture Partner Michael Hirshland Debuts New Seed Fund: Resolute.VC — As we heard in September, VC Michael Hirshland (a.k.a. @VCMike) announced he was leaving Polaris Venture Partners, where he was a general partner, to start his own seed fund. Today, Hirshland is debuting his new fund—Resolute.vc.
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Eric Schmidt: Google Does Not Dominate Search, Mobile — Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, appeared on Capitol Hill in September to answer questions about whether his company's products are anti-competitive. He denied that Google gives its own products search preference …
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