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| Judge Rejects Apple's Request for Permanent Ban of Samsung Smartphones | | Judge Lucy Koh has denied Apple's request for a permanent injunction against Samsung smartphones, Reuters reported. Apple had been awarded $1.05 billion in damages in an August verdict. The trial's jury found that Samsung willfully copied features of Apple's iPhone and iPad. The Cupertino, Calif. company also sought a permanent sales ban on the smartphones in question -- a formidable list of 26 devices.
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| Yog's App Makes Sure You'll Always Have Someone to Go Jogging With | | Monday, December 17, 2012 11:00 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Yog One-Liner Pitch: An app that connects you with runners around the world so you'll never have to jog alone again. Why It's Taking Off: Yog is working to make running -- and exercise in general -- more social.
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| 12 Free Shipping Deals for Last-Minute Shoppers | | Monday, December 17, 2012 3:32 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Christmas is next week. It's not time to freak out yet — but it's almost time to get really nervous. Let's not get to that point. In fact, there's still time to take care of the rest of your shopping online. Scroll through the gallery above for 12 retailers currently offering free shipping to the U.S. Be aware, many of these deals end very soon.
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| U.S. Mobile Ad Spending to Reach $4 Billion by End of Year, Study Says | | Monday, December 17, 2012 3:24 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Facebook and Twitter spent a good part of 2012 talking up their "native" mobile ad products -- and marketers, it appears, have been paying attention. On Monday, eMarketer adjusted its end-of-year mobile advertising forecast upward, citing Facebook's mobile newsfeeds and Twitter's Promoted Products suite as driving forces.
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| Google Maps for iOS Downloaded More Than 10 Million Times | | Monday, December 17, 2012 2:49 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Google Maps became the top free app in the Apple App Store just a few hours after it was released late Wednesday. Now, we know just how popular the app has really been. Jeff Huber, the SVP of geo and commerce at Google, revealed in a Google+ post that the company's new maps app for iOS was downloaded more than 10 million times in less than 48 hours after it was released.
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| Burberry Teaser Ad Catapults Romeo Beckham to Twitter Fame | | Monday, December 17, 2012 1:42 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Romeo Beckham, the 10-year-old son of football star David Beckham and designer Victoria Beckham, is making his modeling debut in Burberry's Spring/Summer 2013 campaign, the British design house announced Monday. The casting announcement lit up Twitter, briefly becoming a worldwide trending topic late Monday morning. It is still trending in the UK as of publication time.
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| Coming Soon: Twitter Nielsen TV Ratings | | Monday, December 17, 2012 1:04 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Twitter is partnering with Nielsen to provide a "common benchmark" from which to measure a TV program's engagement. The "Nielsen Twitter TV Rating," as it will be known, will be available for the fall 2013 TV season.
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| Amazon Nabs Exclusive Shows From TNT | | Monday, December 17, 2012 12:53 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Amazon is seeking out exclusive content licensing deals with TV and film studios as it looks to beef up its $79-per-year Prime service against larger competitors such as Netflix. The company announced Monday that it signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Turner and Warner Bros. to bring two TNT shows, Falling Skies and The Closer, to its Prime Instant Video catalog.
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| Online Paywalls Are Here to Stay | | Monday, December 17, 2012 12:28 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Don't hold your breath for your favorite publishers to ditch their paywalls anytime soon. Nearly half of newspapers (48%) currently have paywalls on their websites as do more than a fifth of magazines, according to a new survey from the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly the Audit Bureau of Circulations). In fact, many of those surveyed said they couldn't believe it took them so long to go that route.
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| Jell-O Cashes in on the Mayan Apocalypse | | Monday, December 17, 2012 10:42 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Will Jell-O forestall the Mayan apocalypse? Let's hope so. The brand is positing that solution in the ad above in which the dessert serves as a sacrifice to please the gods. The brand will bolster the campaign's short run (the end of the world is slated for Friday, Dec. 21) with a Twitter-based contest. The brand is asking fans to tweet about the one thing they'd do before the world ends with the hashtag #funpocalypse.
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