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November 11, 2012, 6:25 PM

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Apple:

HTC and Apple Settle Patent Dispute — All Patent Litigation Between the Companies Dismissed — HTC and Apple® have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties.

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple-HTC ten-year license deal shows Android patent peace is achievable — Apple just published a joint statement with HTC announcing the settlement of their Android patent dispute more than 32 months after it started. This is the third significant smartphone patent settlement since June 2011.

More: Wired, Fortune and Forbes

Tweets: @tim and @asymco

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Why Apple and HTC settled their patent litigation — Sometimes it's easier to just pay the money — Apple and HTC just announced a surprise settlement to their ongoing patent litigation, which spanned multiple lawsuits in courts around the world. The deal will see both companies drop …

More: WMPoweruser and Forbes. Tweets: @llsethj

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Does HTC Deal Signal End to Apple's Thermonuclear War Against Android? — The most noteworthy piece of the just-announced Apple-HTC settlement is that the iPhone maker has a price. — Until now, Apple indicated only that it wanted other companies not to copy it. It didn't seem interested in licensing its patents.

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Apple and HTC settle all patent litigation with 10 year license agreement

More: Guardian, Examiner, Reuters, AllThingsD, TECHGEEK.com.au, Geekosystem, The Next Web, PhoneNews.com, ZDNet, iMore, Computerworld, TUAW, Engadget, everythingiCafe and CNET

Rands In Repose:

Innovation is a Fight — Apple is eventually doomed. Yes, the most valuable company on the planet will slowly fade into stagnant mediocrity. It will be replaced by something that they will not predict and they will not see coming. This horrifically efficient culling is a fact of life …

More: parislemon and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @cdixon and @drbarnard

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Seriously, Apple Is Doomed

More: ReadWrite. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Where Did Spotify's Billion Dollars Go? Ask Netflix. — Six months ago, Spotify was going to be worth $4 billion. Now it looks like a new funding round will value the streaming music company at $3 billion. — Where did that billion dollars go? — The most obvious answer is that all sorts …

Tweets: @georgezachary

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Spotify Is Having A Good 2012: Revenues Could Reach $500M As It Expands The Digital Music Market

More: Business Insider and VatorNews. See also Mediagazer

Richard Hay / WindowsObserver.com:

Tweetro Slams into Twitter 100K Token Limit — Users of the very popular 3rd party Twitter app Tweetro just received this email from Atta Elayyan the UX Designer and Co-Founder of Lazyworm Applications Ltd. and it is not good news: … Included in the email was a graphic showing the downloads …

More: The Verge, WindowsWave, TECHGEEK.com.au and Paul Haddad. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft to use Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani, and other celebrities to promote Windows Phone 8 — After an on stage appearance by Jessica Alba at Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 launch recently, the company and its partners are starting to use even more celebrities to promote Redmond's latest mobile OS.

More: Gizmodo, CNET, The Next Web, wpcentral.com, Neowin, The Sun, Digital Spy, WMPoweruser and Winsyde

Dr. Michael Wu / TechCrunch:

The Problem With Measuring Digital Influence — Editor's note: Dr. Michael Wu is the Principal Scientist of Analytics at Lithium where he is currently applying data-driven methodologies to investigate and understand the complex dynamics of the social Web. — Social media is a required avenue for brands to engage their customers.

Tweets: @bill_gross and @jeffjarvis

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Online viewers start leaving if video doesn't play in 2 seconds, says study — As revenues decline for traditional forms of online advertising, video is emerging as a bright spot for many media companies. It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.

More: Rough Type, The Verge and Gizmodo

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Oliver Luckett of theAudience, Building Online Fan Bases — EVEN in an industry accustomed to madcap characters, Oliver Luckett cuts a “Who was that?” swath across Hollywood. — Raised in Mississippi and with the accent to prove it, Mr. Luckett, 38, is known for zooming around town in an Aston Martin …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @counternotions

Kim Zetter / Wired:

With Millions Paid in Hacker Bug Bounties, Is the Internet Any Safer? — The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks and sneakers was hunkered down on a hallway bench at the Sheraton hotel hacking away at his laptop.

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