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Video: Walking the endless Samsung Galaxy S4 line

After the first few hundred people, I lost count.

FORTUNE -- Before the Samsung lauch event at New York City's Radio City Music Hall Thursday evening it took me nearly three minutes to walk past the queue of people that ran up Sixth Avenue and halfway across 51st Street. I never got around to filming the crowd gathered at the VIP and media entrances on 50th Street.

Does this mean that Samsung MORE

Today in Tech: Dropbox buys popular Mailbox app

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Dropbox buys Mailbox, an app with some buzz [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]

"We felt we could help Mailbox reach a much different audience much faster," said Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, who said both companies shared the goal of making people's lives easier.

He said Dropbox will keep the Mailbox service running as a stand-alone app, and over time Dropbox will MORE

Chart of the day: Can Apple regain the smartphone lead?

Apple owned the market for two fleeting quarters, and it may never own it again.

FORTUNE -- In an interview about the impact of Samsung's Galaxy S4 on Apple (AAPL), Anouch Seydtaghi, deputy economics editor for the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, asked Asymco's Horace Dediu what seemed like a perfectly reasonable question:

Q: Can Apple regain the lead in the smartphone market? If yes, how?

Dediu responded, characteristically, with a chart:

A: Apple had leadership in the MORE

Samsung's Galaxy S4: What the Apple analysts are saying

After the big build-up and over-the-top stage show, there were few surprises

FORTUNE -- Evolutionary, not revolutionary, was the general consensus. As for what Samsung's new phone means for Apple (AAPL), the jury was split.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster: Galaxy S4 Evolutionary, iPhone To Essentially Maintain High End Share In CY13. "The Galaxy S4 appears to be largely an incremental update to the S3 including a slightly larger screen (4% larger on diagonal), better MORE

Samsung's Galaxy S4: What the press is saying

No reviews yet, just some analysis based on specs and a few minutes of hands-on

FORTUNE -- The overnight verdict: Incremental improvements in hardware, a ton of new software features, and a general agreement that Apple has a fight on its hands.

Roger Cheng, CNET: Samsung has an unstoppable hit in Galaxy S4. "Last year, Samsung spent $401 million on advertising just in the U.S., with a vast majority going toward television, according to MORE

New Samsung Galaxy S4? Meh.

Samsung's latest Galaxy S phone may be a technical wonder, but it's increasingly the base software that really matters in mobile.

By Cyrus Sanati

FORTUNE -- Samsung's splashy launch party for its fourth-generation Galaxy S mobile device isn't going to have much of an impact in its war with Apple. That's because the battleground for dominance in the mobile space has shifted away from the hardware and physical design of phones and toward MORE

Live from Radio City Music Hall: Samsung's Galaxy S4

The drumroll for Samsung's new phone is bigger than anything Apple ever produced

FORTUNE -- The line outside Radio City Music Hall was long -- longer than any Apple (AAPL) iPhone or iPad launch I've covered. (YouTube video: Walking the line.)

The press presence was ridiculous -- there were three media doors, one for video, two for print, and it still took more than an hour to get in. The rumor in MORE

Apple's shares are up 5,749% since 2003, Samsung's 373%

It's only in the past year that Samsung has (handily) outpaced Apple

FORTUNE: "Samsung's stock doesn't trade on US exchanges," writes the Bespoke Investment Group, "so hardly anyone here even looks at the stock."

Well, Bespoke did, and it produced the 10-year (above) and one-year chart (below). They show that over the long run, Apple (AAPL), as Bespoke put it, "crushed" Samsung.

Lately, however, not so much.

Thanks to Barrons' Tiernan Ray for spotting the report.

Samsung's event marketing makes Apple's hype look tame

Pulling out all the stops for the Galaxy S4 in Radio City Music Hall and Times Square

FORTUNE -- Steve Jobs, the past master of high-tech event marketing, was famous for treating the launch of Apple's (AAPL) new products as if they were Broadway openings, although lately Apple has been moving its events to smaller and smaller venues.

Samsung, famous for flattering Apple by imitation, has taken the Broadway metaphor quite literally. MORE

Today in Tech: With Galaxy 4, Samsung aims to take down iPhone

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Samsung targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's core iPhone market [BLOOMBERG]

The debut of Samsung's marquee smartphone at Radio City Music Hall tomorrow night lets Samsung bring the fight directly to Apple's strongest market. The South Korean company is relying on an advertising blitz and cutting-edge features, potentially including a snazzier camera and eye-tracking capabilities, to generate the kind of buzz associated with Apple's MORE