After a protracted legal battle, Reuters reports Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe will settle a lawsuit claiming they conspired to pay their employees far less than they deserved. These companies got a very good deal.

New Bay Area rules: every tech company demonstration must have a gimmick. The Tax Day protest outside Twitter had stick-on mustaches mocking Mayor Ed Lee; the one outside Apple had $15 billion coupons.

The Serbia news site Netokracija says this the statue that Apple picked from 10,000 other entries to memorialize Steve Jobs. It's either that or a mystical key that unlocks the Google barges (via Business Insider).

Engadget: "The U.S. Postal Service has approved a commemorative stamp honoring the Apple co-founder to be printed as part of a collectible series next year.

There are few jobs as paper-prestigious as working where the iPod was invented. Even though Apple lost its startup zeal many years ago, it's still the Harvard of tech firms, surrounded by smooth lines and military-grade secrecy. On the other hand, we have this guy, who hated Apple so much he walked out.

It only took half a year for the un-beating heart of America's tech sector to show any unified opposition to NSA dragnet techniques: ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com is a lazy piece of PR dreck—and about as transparently self-serving as it gets.

What shining bastion of moral authority would bravely step up to defend a helpless $500 billion corporation being bullied by evil anti-trust investigators? The kind of editorial board that comes with its own warning.

It starts with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote, and ends as a total mystery: an internal video memo from Apple's chief is very strange, and the company is trying to scrub it off the internet.

Malign Dave Eggers' latest work of Silicon Valley sci-fi all you'd like, but he nails one thing: tech's adoration of creepy corporate campuses. Not only does Apple's upcoming superstructure resemble a UFO, it employs a man whose sole job is thinking about decorative trees.

In the slow battle between humankind's love of porn and Tumblr's need to somehow make money, we find ourselves in a sort of ceasefire: boobs can stay, but they won't be easy to find. Caught in the armistice are plenty of inoffensive things. Why can't I search for #gay on my phone, but it's easy to find naked teens?

Did you read any articles about Apple's long-rumored "cheap iPhone"? The gadget mill is churning with fresh evidence for the mythical handset, fed by a new undercover investigation from China Labor Watch. You'd never guess the investigation uncovered even more horrendous labor practices.

Apple is guilty of an ebook price-fixing conspiracy, says a federal judge, wherein the cost of books was artificially pushed up. The dullest of all frauds.

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Quickly following alleged PRISM pals Microsoft and Facebook, Apple just won government permission and disclosed a chunk of its data: here's a (very) rough idea of how many of our iPhones are under surveillance.

Jean-Louis Gassée occupies an odd, disdained corner of Apple's corporate history, a French exec ousted in by infighting and products that bombed. But he's still got lots to say about the place—and might be the first Apple exec to publicly state the obvious. (Spoiler: gay)

You've never heard of the NSA's "PRISM" project, but it might know lots about you: according to a new report by the Washington Post, the agency has been secretly collecting enormous, intimate troves of internet data from the biggest tech companies in the world. They can watch you as you type.

This is why stuff like this matters: less than a month after investor MG Siegler announced his move to Google, he's written a TechCrunch column pillorying Apple for looking dull. There's no mention—by Siegler or TechCrunch—of the fact that he works for Apple's rival.

The mega-valuable company that makes your laptop is under congressional scrutiny this week for offshore tax-dodging. It all started in 1980, when Apple's California execs moved their operation to Ireland with a fake company with the codename "Waldwill Limited."