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,
What are Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft doing? As AT&T, Verizon, Apple and Google spent this summer hashing out plans for world domination, it seems that Facebook is best positioned to strike the fatal blow against our beloved …
TechCrunch 2 hours ago. It’s no secret that Google, Apple and even RIM want a piece of the $1 billion-and-growing mobile advertising market. The fight over share of ad dollars is even resulting in possible anti-competitive practices. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Adobe, Apple, Avid, JumpCut, Sorensen, On2, blip.tv, Brightcove, Feedroom, Justin.tv, KIT Digital, Livestream/Mogulus, Ooyala, Maven, Permission TV, Qik, uStream, StudioNow, VMIX, Akamai, BitGravity, Edgecast, Grid Networks, Limelight Networks, … One company that has been overlooked as a potential platform for other startups to build a business on remains YouTube, which Google acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are fundamentally different : …
The Fragmented Future Of Mobile Ad Networks -. It’s no secret that Google, Apple and even RIM want a piece of the $1 billion-and-growing mobile advertising market. TechCrunch 9 hours ago: … and Ex-Facebooker Start Invite-Only Workspace Sunfire Offices -. A unique spin on the concept of co-working space, Sunfire Offices was started three months ago by ex- Google engineering manager Niniane Wang and and ex-Facebook engineering manager Yishan Wong. TechCrunch 22 hours ago: …
I firmly believe that you’re a douchebag Apple fanboy .. but wow.. you’re hella smart. http://blossom.nu Jenni. I think it needs to be one step further than simply friends and followers. Facebook needs to address the gaps which exist ….. Easy for the techcrunch-reading crowd; difficult for much of the world. http://parislemon.com MG Siegler. that info co-existing in the stream would be the biggest issue as i see it. the sharing mechanism itself shouldn’t be too hard. …
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. …
