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The Battle Continues: Apple/Samsung Injunction Hearing Set For September 20
Aug 25, 1:50AM
Oh, you thought this whole mess was over now that Samsung has to pony up $1.049 billion in damages to its bitter rival Apple? Not by a long shot. According to The Verge, Samsung and Apple attorneys have been talking with Judge Koh about a preliminary injunction hearing, and have apparently agreed to schedule it on September 20. Now that Apple has a considerable jury verdict to back up its claims, you can expect the company to push Samsung hard to either license the infringed patents in question (meaning Samsung would have to pay out even more money on top of the damages it already owes) or bar the Korean electronics giant from peddling some of its questionable wares in the United States.Apple Stock Reaches New All-Time High Following Verdict, Up 1.70% To $674.48 After Hours
Aug 25, 12:13AM
Apple stock reached a new all-time high as it rose 1.79% to $675.11 in after-hours trading at the time of publication. The stock opened Friday morning at $659.51. A few hours after the market closed on Friday afternoon, a jury in San Jose federal court ruled in favor of Apple in a landmark patent case. Samsung must pay Apple $1,051,855,000 (although that exact figure is being disputed) in damages.Apple Now Owed Only $1.049 Billion In Damages After Jury Revisits Inconsistent Verdict
Aug 25, 12:09AM
It's a good thing that lawyers from both Apple and Samsung were allowed to review the jury's verdict document after it was read, because there seem to be a few issues with it. Upon further review, there were two instances in which the jury prescribed monetary damages in Apple's favor without actually backing up the decision. According to Judge Lucy Koh, the jury awarded Apple nearly $220,000 in damages when it came to Samsung's LTE-capable Galaxy Tab 10.1, but didn't formally note any instances of patent infringement or inducement.Apple Awarded $1.049 Billion In Damages As Jury Finds Samsung Infringed On Design And Software Patents
Aug 24, 10:48PM
The jury in the landmark Apple-Samsung trial ruled mostly in favor of Apple, including awarding Apple $1,051,855,000 in damages. Samsung, on the other hand, was granted a total of $0 in damages. Here's a quick rundown of how the jury came down on both of the companies. Remember, there are plenty of devices at play here -- on Samsung's side alone, there's the Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S, Exhibit, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Gem, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Replenish, Vibrant, plus every carrier's version of the Galaxy S II.The End Is Nigh For The Apple v. Samsung Trial
Aug 24, 10:30PM
Apple and Samsung's whirlwind legal battle in San Jose, California has finally come to a head. After attorneys from both sides made their final, impassioned statements to the jury this past Tuesday, deliberations lasted for just over 21 hours on what could be one of the most important legal decisions the industry has seen in years. But no one (save for the jury themselves) knows what it is yet.Facebook Acquires Threadsy, Maker of Social Marketing Tool Swaylo
Aug 24, 9:58PM
Facebook just made what appears to be another "acqui-hire," with the purchase of Threadsy, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup that went on to make a marketing tool called Swaylo. The terms were undisclosed. What's interesting about the deal is that the startup's paid product SwayloPro will continue to run as a separate company for its current investors. Threadsy was backed by August Capital and Maveron Capital. There have been a few other cases in the past where Facebook has approached a team for talent, and only part of a company wanted to join (or alternately, only part of a company passed Facebook's rigorous hiring process). When Facebook did a partial acquisition of Zenbe back in 2010, it took three employees. Threadsy started out as a way for people to see all of their social feeds and communication from different networks like Facebook and Twitter in one place. But they then changed toward a paid service that helped brands see which influencers they needed to establish relationships with to find new customers on social networks.Guggenheim Architect To Design Facebook HQ's New 3,400-Employee Tree-Topped Engineering Building
Aug 24, 7:44PM
Share price be damned, Facebook is expanding. It's just announced that Guggenheim Museum architect Frank Gehry will design a 3,400 employee engineering office connected to its Menlo Park Headquarters by an underground tunnel. Engineers will hack away in one giant room, separated from the product and ads teams in the main campus. Construction will begin in early 2013 Below you can see a detailed view of models for the new building complete with a tree-filled rooftop garden as Gehry and Mark Zuckerberg discuss its design.Exclusive: Startup Launch Ruined By Careless Blogger
Aug 24, 7:17PM
Last night I attended an event for a local startup that was very excited about an upcoming product launch and coming out of beta, making its service openly available to everyone. The official launch was scheduled for and embargoed until next Tuesday, but the event was meant as a celebration and an opportunity for writers to get a more in-depth look at the service, meet the founders, and talk to some of its users. There was beer and wine and a little bit of food. There was cake. Somebody drove a car with a pink moustache on the front into the middle of the office and some people hopped out and talked about their experiences with users. It was a joyous occasion, a time for everyone to relax and celebrate all the hard work they had been putting into it, to breathe a little, let loose. Then, an hour later, someone posted about the event and the upcoming launch, and shit went sideways.iSwifter Reveals Itself As "Agawi," Announces Second Version Of Cloud Gaming Platform For Publishers
Aug 24, 7:00PM
The Menlo Park-based company formerly known as iSwifter has announced version 2.0 of its cloud gaming platform to offer more content types and usage on clients beyond iPads. Android tablets, Windows 8 tablets, smart TVs, Macs, and PCs will be able to stream games via cloud service.Pro Tip: Buy One Of The Last Disrupt 'Early Bird' Tickets Today And Spend The Other $1K On Booze
Aug 24, 6:50PM
You guys aren't dummies, you know why we're constantly posting about our TechCrunch Disrupt conferences. The conferences make us money, and this money allows us to hire even more writers to cover your (yes YOUR) startup. Attendance is totally worth it, as you get access to our all-star speaker lineup, a fresh new crop of amazingly talented Startup Battlefield companies, and of course, all the writers we are hiring to write about your (yes YOUR) startup.Samsung Galaxy Stellar Expected To Hit Verizon With 'Starter Mode,' $99 Price Tag
Aug 24, 6:32PM
It's no secret by now that Verizon plans to launch a device called the Galaxy Stellar in the near future -- the short-lived EvLeaks Twitter account posted a picture of it before going silent -- but a recently leaked image has shed a bit more light on the new mid-range device. Expect the Stellar to hit shelves with a $99 price tag in tow, though exactly when that will happen is still up in the air.NiftyThrifty Raises $2 Million From Tribeca Venture Partners, Others
Aug 24, 5:55PM
NiftyThrifty, an online, pre-owned, vintage clothing store, announced today that it has raised $2 million from Tribeca Venture Partners, Signal Ventures, Greycroft, idealab and Howard Morgan. The Brooklyn-based company will launch in October as a membership website that sells vintage clothing. The company will target women exclusively at first, but will follow with apparel for men in a few months.Can Open Source Hardware Companies Survive Clones?
Aug 24, 5:55PM
In theory, this Kickstarter project aiming to sell a sub-$2,000 MakerBot clone shouldn't be that much of a big deal. The MakerBot Replicator, one of the first (and best) home 3D printers in the world, is an open source product, and as such, anyone with a little wood, some soldering experience, and a dream should be able to build one - or a hundred and one. But in practice the Kickstarted project, called the TangiBot, is nearly an exact replica of the MakerBot. What happens when an open source project begets its competitors and, more important, what does it mean for the open source hardware ethos in general if people flock to copies at the expense of the original?Hey Amazon Employees, Stop Talking To Us
Aug 24, 5:42PM
Somebody at Amazon in Seattle just texted us a pic of this weird propaganda poster, posted in an elevator at Headquarters: A SECURE AMAZON BEGINS WITH YOU. Basically, the message here is "Don't talk to (or in front of) tech bloggers." I'm assuming those two little Amazon employee locks (?) are discussing Amazon's top secret Time Machine plans. And that Hamburgler guy looking all shady up there in the left corner is a tech reporter, who is trying to get the AMZN Time Machine scoop for his blog, "Tech Headlines."Find Out How Many Fake Twitter Followers You Have With StatusPeople
Aug 24, 5:40PM
Are you a social media superstar, or is your Twitter feed just a soapbox for a soulless animatronic audience? StatusPeople is a humbling web application that reveals the percentage of followers that are fake or inactive. Obama has a whopping 31% fake followers (or 6 million of 19 million), Twitter queen, Lady Gaga, has 27%--which makes us feel like a people magnet with a comparatively tiny 20%. Twitter occasionally cleanses its universe of robots with a mass purge, but is clearly struggling to keep up a motivated army of spammers and purchased accounts.Evernote Declares A 'Cease-Fire' In Its War With Paper, Partners With Moleskine For Smart Notebooks
Aug 24, 5:30PM
Evernote CEO Phil Libin said today that he doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about competition, but he admits that there has been one "age-old rivalry" — with pen-and-paper. Hearing about people who still take notes on paper is "infuriating," Libin said, in part because he still does it himself. "This is a fight that many people in the technology space have been fighting," Libin said. Today, however, "we are announcing a cease-fire."Twitter Joining the Linux Foundation
Aug 24, 5:25PM
The overwhelming majority of web-based services today rely on Linux. More and more of these companies are joining the Linux Foundation, the "nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux." The Linux Foundation provides a neutral ground for companies and users to discuss and collaborate on Linux's development, so it makes sense for companies with large Linux footprints to get involved. Linux Foundation members include IBM, Intel, Google, HP, Oracle, and a raft of other names you'll recognize. Twitter will be joining up next week.Digitization Company YesVideo Adds Unlimited Cloud Storage For Home Videos And Photos
Aug 24, 5:00PM
YesVideo is best known for converting old videotapes and photos and giving users back a DVD with all their old home movies in a digital format. But it's increasingly moving past digitization and into online storage. With that in mind, the company is now giving all customers an unlimited amount of cloud storage for content that they convert using YesVideo's service. YesVideo has been around for more than a decade, offering people a way to easily convert all their home videos and photos for the digital age. They simply drop off films recorded in any old format -- whether that be 8mm, VHS, or Beta -- at any one of a number of 34,000 partner retail locations, like CVS and Bartell Drugs, as well as Target, Kodak, and Ritz Camera. The company then digitizes that content for them in one of two production facilities in the U.S., typically in less than three weeks.Evernote Announces Evernote Business With Company-Wide Sharing And Phone Support
Aug 24, 4:45PM
Evernote CEO Phil Libin just announced a new product aimed at small- and medium-sized companies (or small- and medium-sized teams within large enterprises) — appropriately, it's called Evernote Business. Libin describes Evernote as your "external brain", and he says Evernote Business should serve as the external brain for your company. He says the product was built with four big principles in mind:TechCrunch Giveaway: 3 Vizio Co-Stars! #TechCrunch
Aug 24, 4:44PM
The Vizio Co-Star is the first Google TV box that features support for OnLive gaming as well as video services like Netflix, Amazon and YouTube. Sounds pretty awesome right? Here is another chance for three lucky winners to win one! The Vizio Co-Star packs plenty of power in a petite package -- it basically fits in the palm of your hand, as does the fancy, dual-sided QWERTY remote it ships with. Also, it's a hot item that everyone wants. It sold out pre-orders in the first 12 hours it was available. With special thanks to Vizio, we have three Co-Stars to give away.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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