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Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone gets $200 price cut

The heavily hyped, Andy Rubin-backed Essential phone launched late in August. Now, two months later, its price has been cut from $699 to $499. The news was announced in a Sunday blog post by company president Niccolo de Masi. He said the price cut comes in lieu of the company spending money on an expensive marketing campaign. “We could have created …

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Apple and Samsung head for yet another patent damages trial

Now playing: Watch this: New trial may recalculate what Samsung owes Apple for… 1:12 Get ready for Apple versus Samsung, round number — oh, forget it, we don’t remember, either.  The two tech giants will head back to district court for yet another trial looking into design patent infringement. Judge Lucy Koh, in an order signed Sunday, has told the …

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