| China court orders Apple to pay in rights dispute | | A Chinese court has ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to eight Chinese writers and two companies who say unlicensed copies of their work were distributed through Apple’s online store. |
| Yahoo! ordered to pay $2.7 billion | | Yahoo! said it was ordered to pay $2.7 billion by a Mexican court in a lawsuit stemming from allegations of breach of contract and lost profits related to a yellow pages listing service. |
| iPhone 5, Galaxy S3 added to US patent battle | | A California judge on Thursday granted motions to add Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S3 with the Jelly Bean operating system to a patent infringement suit between the mobile giants. |
| Google’s Android software in 3 out of 4 smartphones | | Three out of every four smartphones sold in the third quarter featured Google Inc’s Android mobile operating system, as the gap between Google and Apple Inc-based phones widened further, according to a new research report. |
| HTC seeks to reverse sliding smartphone sales | | Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. is struggling to halt its sliding sales and keep its status as a strong global brand in a market increasingly dominated by Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. |
| Yahoo to exit South Korea by end of year | | Yahoo Inc. says it will close its South Korean web portal and an Internet advertising business, cutting its losses in a market where it has struggled for over a decade. |
| Dubai first to get Galaxy Note II | | Samsung Electronics has launched of its new Galaxy Note II, with the company confident that it will do better than its highly-successful predecessor. |
| Smart TVs to penetrate 40% of Mideast’s market by 2015 | | Smart TVs will penetrate 40 per cent of the television market in the Middle East by 2015, according to Changhong, China’s largest TV production base which launched its own Smart TV in the Middle East in Dubai on Thursday. |
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