The entire Internet (aka Facebook, Google, Apple AOL, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube) has just been served with a vague and vast patent violation suit from Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen. As patent suits are notoriously unpopular, the response from tech pundits has been apprehensive. Now the companies named are starting to hit back, a representative from Facebook told TechCrunch,
Subscribe to TechCrunch India by Email … Through his current firm, Interval Licensing LLC, Allen is suing Apple, Google, AOL, Facebook, ebay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube (which is a subsidiary of Google). The claims involve four separate patents, most of which cover integral parts of how the companies named do business. For example, one patent allows site suggestions for consumers based on things they’re currently viewing, while another …
Taylor noted that he had been brainwashed by Silicon Valley before he saw and understood the power of Facebook Photos (he was likely working at Google at the time). He had been thinking like an engineer about the best way to organize photos … Well not everyone loves Apple (hell, take a look at half the comments on TC Apple articles), and they aren’t really all that shady (if you think about it, not just label them). So no, Facebook isn’t the new Apple for the media. …
If Facebook, providing digital social engagement, are afraid of TM infringement from: Face.* .*Book or Like. Then, they are showing their true fears. It’s not fear about Google or Twitter or Apple, but, it’s about some random …
Ever used google? reply Imran Hussain – August 27th, 2010 at 5:53 pm UTC. Oh yes. MS should learn from Apple. They never sue the competition to keep them down when they are afraid of it getting better than them. Never. /sarcasm … Although it doesn’t have the word Facebook or Google in the title, this lawsuit is much more important than the Paul Allen lawuit. The fact that they are pushing for a Supreme Court ruling should have been your first clue that this has …
If there was another website called gadgetcrunch, TechCrunch would have the right to sue. All of those sites listed above are probably up next to get a nice letter from Facebook. Facebook, more than likely, was around before any of the other sites … The biggest problem for facebook is that the term facebook is generic term for exactly what facebook is right now. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo etc don’t have similar generic problems with their corporate mark. …
The entire Internet (aka Facebook, Google, Apple AOL, Facebook, ebay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube) has just been served with a vague and vast patent violation suit from Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen. … named are starting to hit back, a representative from Facebook told TechCrunch, We believe this suit is completely without merit and we will fight it vigorously. A representative from Google also commented on the validity of the suit.
Mobile applications discovery and sharing service provider Appsfire is going social, henceforth enabling users to connect to Facebook in order to bring their Facebook friends in on the fun. Basically, this allows Appsfire users to easily … Math is ugly: 1.5M clicks, let’s speculate at 10% conversion, 75% paid apps at an ASP of $1.50 and an Apple affiliate fee of 5%: Top-line revenue for the company would only be ~$8500! Yikes! Perhaps Chomp/Appsfire do better than 10% …
The entire Internet (aka Facebook, Google, Apple AOL, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube) has just been served with a vague and vast patent violation suit from Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen. As patent suits are notoriously unpopular, the response … Now the companies named are starting to hit back, a representative from Facebook told TechCrunch, We believe this suit is completely without merit and we will fight it vigorously.
As you may recall, Yelp has been frustrated by Google’s recent decision to pump up its Places service with Yelp’s content— without Yelp’s consent. During a recent interview with TechCrunch TV, Yelp’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman said he was … Yelp has content and it is key for Bing maps that need some love to compete against Google and now FaceBook. Also Google takes a step back when it knows Bing is around the corner. If Bing owns Yelp content, Google looks like Bing is …
