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Ep 5: Over five point seven billion dollars is a San Diego jury's award against Apple on haptic… · MAG 7 Daily

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  Over 5.7 billion dollars is a San Diego Jury's Award against Apple on haptic patents. This is MAG 7 Daily, episode 5. Top of the tape,
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  Taction Suit Apple in 2021. The Verge, citing CNBC, has the federal jury result for that haptics company.
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  The suit is about tactile transducers that work by vibration. Set against that damage is award.
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  The open question is whether two patents can hold a figure that large.
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  The patents are US patent 10,659,885, and US patent 10,820,117.
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  Each one covers Transducer hardware meant to let a user feel a signal.
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  That pair is the whole record sitting under the damages number.
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  Yahoo Finance reports Amazon has confirmed the strikes.
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  Iranians drones reached Amazon Web Services facilities. Across the seven, the live fight
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  is who gets to finish the purchase inside someone else's screen.
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  Google put about $350 million into Flipkart in 2024. Walmart led that funding round.
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  The stake now sits under a live checkout test. In India, shoppers can buy Walmart-owned Flipkart
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  goods from inside two Google surfaces, Gemini and AI mode. A buy button shows on select
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  FlipCart listings and sends the shopper into FlipCart checkout. The shopper does not leave
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  the AI interface. People close to the test and what TechCrunch watched, put it with a small
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  user group. The covered goods are smartphones, electronics, and mobile accessories,
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  three categories. Other users still see a standard FlipCart listing with no direct purchase option.
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  This path is separate from the Universal Commerce Protocol.
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  Google introduced that open standard earlier in 2026, so agents can move through a retail
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  journey.
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  Checkout included.
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  A later widening of the protocol can pass items to a retailer's own site.
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  Tap buy in the Flipkart test and a FlipHeart branded payment flow opens.
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  Not a Google hosted checkout.
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  Google's financial stake sits on top of the technology partnership.
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  A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch the company keeps testing features so people can find businesses and reach them more easily.
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  Geekwire reports Amazon is refusing to let Meta's muse shop on Amazon.com.
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  The agent does not identify itself, and that is the condition it has not met.
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  Martin Sid magazine reports Google has run its first data center test in space.
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  The software in that test is Gemini.
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  They report it operates in bursts of 15 minutes.
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  Meta and YouTube say they will take ads for a film about Elon Musk.
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  The director is Alex Gibney.
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  TechCrunch reports the reversal follows earlier reporting that a number of social platforms had rejected the ads.
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  The Financial Times puts Amazon's bet on fast deliveries at $3 billion.
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  Local groups and foreign groups are in a costly fight to lead that race.
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  case. Here is a look back over the past week, in case you missed it. On Apple, a US government
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  brief still urges the Supreme Court to reverse the contempt ruling in the epic case. A
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  track separate from today's jury result. On Amazon, hundreds of thousands of merchants
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  can now offer prime on their own sites at no extra cost. On Microsoft, four copilot pillars
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  our turning work software into an agent layer, and $644 million in premiums did not get Tesla
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  insurance into New York. Later in October, Google plans to widen the flip-cart buy button in
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  Gemini and AI mode, time to India's festive shopping season. Before we go, that October widening
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  of the flip-cart button is the nearest date on the book. That's Mag 7 Daily for today. Nothing
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  Everything in this show is financial advice. I'm Patrick and Vancouver. See you tomorrow.
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  And before you go, this show is part of the Nerra Network, a family of daily podcasts
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  on tech, science, and markets. Each won a short, sharp briefing you can finish on the commute.
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  AI puts real builders on the phone with an AI host. Apply at nerranetwork.com slash
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  age of AI up a lie. This episode used AI voice synthesis of my voice. Editorial selection
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  and analysis are my own.