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100 Most Valuable Brands: Apple Tops Again; Nokia Disappears

The tech industry dominates Millward Brown’s annual survey.

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Dot-Anything Domain Dash Debugged

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting proposals for new top-level domains today, reopening the application system through which they are submitted after nearly six weeks of software-glitch-inspired downtime. ICANN said it will keep the system open through May 30, plenty of time for the 839 companies paying $185,000 a pop to submit vanity domains for the organization’s review to toss a few more into the mix.

Samsung Galaxy S III: Inspired by Nature, Not Lawyers

If lawyers didn’t design the Galaxy S III, then why is it so ugly?
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Unpleasant Development for Kodak: ITC Judge Rules Key Patent Invalid

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has determined that a patent Kodak has asserted against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid.
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FTC Adds Privacy Expert to Help Shape Public Policy

The Federal Trade Commission will soon have a new adviser to shape its thinking on Internet and mobile market issues. Paul Ohm, a University of Colorado law professor and former federal computer-crimes prosecutor, will join the agency in late August, taking over for Columbia University professor Tim Wu. At the FTC, Ohm, who has been at the forefront of a lot of debates about how best to apply Fourth Amendment privacy rights in the 21st century, will advise commissioners and staff on policy and enforcement cases.

Google Given Weeks to Resolve EU Antitrust Probe

The EC gives Google a chance to settle an antitrust investigation without facing formal charges.
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Carriers Willing to Live With High iPhone Subsidies for Now

If there’s a handset subsidy battle to be fought, it probably won’t happen until after the debut of the LTE iPhone.
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The Price Is Right: Facebook Closes Near Opening Price

Not the big opening day investors were expecting.
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Oh, Snap: Kodak Says Apple Is Just Playing Spoiler With Patent Claim

Kodak to Apple: Waaaaaagh!
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RIM Corners the “You’ll Use BlackBerry 7 and That’s an Order” Market

Well, at least one part of RIM’s business is on the upswing.
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Judge Orders Apple and HTC to Talk It Out

With their patent war raging on, Apple and HTC have been ordered into face-to-face mediation talks to settle their legal differences. Issued by the U.S. District Court of Delaware on Thursday, the order requires counsel and key decision makers from both companies to attend a session on August 28, 2012. It follows by a single day the enforcement of an International Trade Commission import ban on two HTC smartphones won by Apple in December of 2011.

Plastic Logic Exits E-Reader Business It Never Really Managed to Enter

Facebook IPO Halo Boosts Social Media Stocks

Samsung Rides Android Past Nokia to Take Sales Lead

New Terahertz Wireless Connection Faster Than Your Microwave Oven

Sprint’s Hesse: We’ll Make Money on the iPhone … Eventually

RIM’s Freefall: Stock Drops to Eight-Year Low

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Apple Says Samsung’s Email Purges Destroyed Potential Patent Evidence

Apple’s Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”

MetroPCS and T-Mobile: Oh My, What an Ugly Baby

Foxconn Chief Says Apple Will Share Cost of Improving Factory Conditions

Google Results Protected by First Amendment, Says Google-Commissioned Report

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Twitter’s still in its honeymoon period, but that won’t last forever. At some point, it’s going to be less of a wunderkammer, and more of a regrettable necessity.

— Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon, in an article entitled “Why Twitter will get more annoying”