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| Today's Top Stories Apple's $119 million verdict against Samsung in a smartphone patent lawsuit might be a moral victory for Cupertino, but it won't make a dent in Samsung's success in the marketplace. A federal jury found that Samsung infringed on a number of iOS patents but awarded only a fraction of the $2.2 billion Apple had been seeking. That figure amounts to one-quarter of 1 percent of Samsung's nearly $48 billion in cash, notes the Wall Street Journal. Samsung infringed on Apple's patent for quick links, which enables dialing a phone number by clicking on an email link, and its slide-to-unlock patent for accessing devices. The jury will assess additional damages on Monday for Samsung's infringement of Apple's patent for auto-complete technology, which provides suggestions on how to complete a word during typing. Most of Samsung's products that use the infringing technology are no longer on the market, and the Korean firm is likely to implement other technology for future products, the Journal notes. Samsung currently dominates the smartphone market, with a 30 percent market share according to IDC, compared to Apple's 15.5 percent market share. The jury verdict is unlikely to affect that dominance. At the same time, the jury found that Apple infringed on a Samsung patent and awarded the Korean firm a symbolic $158,400 in damages. "Today's ruling reinforces what courts around the world have already found: That Samsung willfully stole our ideas and copied our products," an Apple spokesperson told Re/code in an email. Mark McKenna, an expert on intellectual-property law at the University of Notre Dame, has a different view of the verdict. "I can't imagine that Apple came away from this case and felt like it was a resounding victory. This will take some of the incentive out of fighting this in the legal venue rather than the business world," McKenna tells the Journal.
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- read the Journal article
- check out the Re/code article
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While 83 percent of smartphone users say they rely on their devices to make dining decisions while traveling, only 16 percent of restaurants have mobile apps, according to an infographic put together by CONNECT 2014 mobile innovation summit and mobile payments venture Isis. Fast food restaurants are ahead of other restaurants in developing and deploying mobile apps, with 53 percent putting mobile apps as a top priority this year, according to the infographic data. Well-known fast food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's have already deployed mobile apps. In addition, 94 percent of smartphone users use their device to look up local information and 84 percent take action as a result, such as buying something or contacting a business. To see the full-size infographic, click here. ![Want to connect with customers? Think mobile first. [infographic]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vOasZCpdOSQ71dnb1snxIyP87p7ShSVVsD8lRsM9f3DFAq-MhBvLIi2nzwdi-EZtWlp0UyCMcTTeBgluEr30UFzmLLlKqpYDMRYwsNcxKrczvgXr0zOxAYVzlcTckN0CvWEtp2BA95cEt7JsIYigQJ-FM9Uw=s0-d)
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Candy Crush has replaced Angry Birds as the king of mobile gaming. Angry Birds, which took the early lead in mobile gaming, has seen its growth slow. Rovio, the game's publisher, faced stagnant revenue and a declining net profit last year, after its revenues doubled in 2012 to about $210 million, according to Stuart Dredge with the Observer newspaper. By contrast, Candy Crush has taken the mobile gaming world by storm. The games publisher, aptly named King, saw revenues top $1.8 billion last year. That headway enabled King to raise half a billion dollars for an initial public offering in March, although its stock price has slipped in recent days. Coming on strong is mobile gaming developer Supercell, which developed mobile games Clash of Clans and Hay Day. The company posted a healthy revenue of $892 million last year on the backs of those games. The new games on the block are "free" to play, but you have to pay money for virtual items through in-app purchases, notes Dredge. That kind of purchase recently got Apple and Google into trouble. Apple was forced to refund $32.5 million to customers as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged that Apple enabled children to rack up millions in in-app purchases by not requiring parents authorization. And Google faces a class action lawsuit over children's in-app purchases. Despite the legal and regulatory issues around in-app purchases, market research firm Gartner estimates that in-app purchases will make up close to half of mobile app store revenue by 2017, up from 17 percent last year.
For more:
- read the Observer article
- check out the FTC release on Apple
- see Gartner's estimates
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