Star designers side with Apple in Samsung patent suit; Cloud pioneer Rackspace soars on takeover talk; and more news
More than 100 star "international design professionals and academics" are siding with Apple in a design patent case against Samsung that is the first to reach the Supreme Court in decades. At issue is a 129-year-old legal concept — "it is the design that sells the article" — which Samsung is challenging to reverse a $1 billion judgment it argues is disproportionate.
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The US jobs report for July is due out Friday morning, but ADP's numbers are out today: 179,000 new private sector jobs were created, it says — near the high range of economists surveyed by Reuters. The Wall Street Journal also says to expect the Labor Department number to be 179,000, and suggests four other things to look for.
Cloud service pioneer Rackspace's market cap surged $1 billion — about 25% — on a report it's about to be taken private. The company "has transitioned its business model in recent years" against competition from Amazon and Microsoft, the Wall Street Journal reports, and in 2014 put itself in play. You may know Rackspace for its blogger in chief, irrepressible geek Robert Scoble.
Elizabeth Holmes' appearance at a scientific conference has roiled the group, the Financial Times reports, with at least two members threatening to resign and leaks there was strong opposition against inviting the Theranos CEO. American Association for Clinical Chemistry president Patricia Jones downplayed the controversy, saying only 10% opposed the invite.
Apple got the green light to sell electricity. The iPhone company bought 130-megawatt solar farm near San Francisco last year, and now has regulatory approval to wholesale the juice. It's among an impressive list of peers — Microsoft, Google, Amazon — "investing in energy projects in a bid to tackle global warming and cut electric bills," Bloomberg reports.
Media Production Coordinator at State Bar of Wisconson
8 年A smartphone can't look like much more than a small box with electronic bits inside, a camera on the back and front and a great display. How else could one look or feel. Now if Samsung put a piece of fruit on the back (like a pear with a bite out of it) then you have a case of copying. So glad I have a Samsung and not even a hint of apple products in my house...except for the old iPod Nano my wife owns that just locks up each time she uses it. Couldn't be happier to be iFree of Apple.
Senior Technical Writer for the mining and other industries.
8 年Why aren't these designers and Apple suing ALL the other iPhone look alikes??? There are many manufacturers and models of smart phone out there that look just as much like the iPhone as Samsung phones. Come on Apple, if you are so concerned about design and ip then sue the other manufacturers for billions of dollars and you can put them all out of business because they don't have the resources like Samsung. Why not cripple the market? Why not stifle innovation? Go on "wipe the floor" with all these upstarts tagging along on your coat tails! Let's not have any completion. Just you and...You! Why, despite all the protestations about big phones, stylus's and "pro" tablets did you COPY Samsung's ideas and features. Touting them as great devices. Get real, if you can't compete then don't be a sore loser and try to sue your way out of the competition!
Front Desk at Elaf hotel co.
8 年Samsung mobiles are world wind
I like "...Samsung was “dead wrong” to argue that consumers consider a wide variety of technical features, as well as the external design, when deciding which product to buy." Ecosystem, familiarity, can it keep up with the programmers long enough to say relevant for two tear, how dorky will I look carrying it to capture poke-stuff .... Yep, so many factors. :) Nice collection John.