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Judge Lucy Koh has significantly reduced the damages awarded to Apple in the major Apple v. Samsung patent trial, knocking off $450 million from the $1.05 billion award and saying Samsung should get a second trial.

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft had a glitch this morning after taking off for the International Space Station, but all of the thruster pods are now back online.

Sept. 9 - 10, 2013       San Francisco, CA           Early Bird Tickets on Sale Amazon.com and you’re (not) done. Amazon’s not down, but it almost might as well be....

Technology advancement is disrupting the $3 trillion health care market, and VentureBeat’s upcoming HealthBeat event will showcase (on the second day) the most interesting health care IT startups and compani...

ZDNet has cut several bloggers from its staff in the past few weeks as it continues to realign its organization into a global one.

Facebook is on the verge of its first major News Feed redesign since 2011. Your Facebook friends are going to love it.

at a press conference today, Obama may have proved that, while he can hire a bunch of Star Wars fanboys to help run the country, he himself is not one.

Vint Cerf is either out of his mind or our generation's greatest visionary. I'm thinking he's a bit of both.

Autodesk (ADSK) was upgraded to buy with a price target of $45 by Jefferies (JEF) as the improved commercial real estate market should add to the bottom line.

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

A research team at Duke electronically linked the brains of a pair of rats to transmit sensory information and solve problems, across continents.

Five-year-old Danny Kitchen of Bristol, England, spent $2500 on iTunes in-app purchases in about 15 minutes, the Beeb reports. Score!

Twilio Fund Europe 2013 will invest in early-stage European startups that make creative use of Twilio's API.

From Einhorn's perspective, the lawsuit is no longer necessary: he got what he wanted.

That vision has produced events where Activision and the State Department, QuikSilver and the Gates Foundation rub shoulders with music industry giants. And where beauty and fashion -- Diane von Furstenberg -- meet brain...

You know what sucks worse than email? Waiting in line to use an app that's supposed to make using email easier.

Guest Post We have to weigh the cost of jeopardizing five years of citizen investment in current research against killing off career paths and future ideas for generations to come.

In trading on Friday, airlines shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 0.6%. Leading the group were shares of Delta Air Lines (DAL), up about 4.3% and shares of United Continental Holdings (UAL) up about 3% ...

The economic recovery is well on track if the business-sales market is a reliable bellwether. A raft of recently announced multibillion-dollar M&A deals suggests 2013 could be a bountiful year for the lawyers who advise ...

Even EA says it doesn't consider the Wii U to be a true next-generation console.

To prevent a horse meat scandal in the U.S., The Cheesecake Factory is using IBM's tools to analyze large data sets from 175 locations.

Smartphones may make Hollywood lots of money one day, but first it's got to go after mobile bad guys.