Facebook Loses Attempt To Remove Court Documents From The Web
Last week, Facebook got slammed as people realized that its "Beacon" advertising solution was a lot more intrusive in terms of revealing private info than had been previously believed -- leading some...
View ArticleFacebook/ConnectU Settlement Shows Why Losers Litigate
Last year, in the midst of various claims from multiple different people that Mark Zuckerberg somehow "stole" the idea for Facebook from other Harvard students, we noted that it really didn't matter....
View ArticleAnother Failed Harvard Social Network Takes 'Legal Action' Against Facebook
Even before ConnectU came along claiming that Mark Zuckerberg somehow "stole" the idea and the code for Facebook from them, there was another Harvard alum, Aaron Greenspan, who had been claiming...
View ArticleFacebook Fans The Flames Of Its TOS Change Overreaction
Some Facebook users are in an uproar after the site changed its terms of service to say that it retains a license to users' content after they delete their account. As the company's founder, Mark...
View ArticleZuckerberg Eats His Openness Dog Food; De-Privatizes His Own Profile
There's been a lot of talk -- mostly negative -- about Facebook's new privacy settings that try to push users (in somewhat confusing ways) towards revealing a lot more info about themselves. There is...
View ArticleZuckerberg: People Are Comfortable Without Privacy, So We Threw Them All Over...
Last May, I pointed out the massive difference between Twitter and Facebook was how Twitter was built with openness at its core. The very default was to share everything. Facebook came from the other...
View ArticlePakistani Lawyer Apparently Seeks Death Penalty For Facebook Founders Because...
You may recall that last month, a Pakistani court ordered that the entire site of Facebook be blocked from the country because a German woman using the site had created an "Everybody Draw Mohammed...
View ArticleFacebook Ownership Fight Gets Weird: Facebook Lawyer 'Unsure' If Zuckberg...
Last week, we wrote about the bizarre case in New York where a guy is claiming to own 84% of Facebook due to a signed contract with Mark Zuckerberg from six years ago. As we noted at the time, the...
View ArticleNow Someone Else Claims He Deserves That 84% Ownership Stake In Facebook
The story of the guy who claims to hold a contract that means he owns 84% of Facebook keeps getting stranger. We already noted that Facebook's first official response in court was to say that it was...
View ArticleHow Should Facebook Respond To The Social Network Movie?
As you probably know by now, there's a movie coming out this fall, called Social Network, which is sorta, kinda, maybe an extremely fictionalized version of the story behind Facebook. It was based on...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Ideas And Execution -- And What's Missing From 'The...
By pretty much all accounts, The Social Network sounds like a fantastic movie (which is what you'd expect from Aaron Sorkin). At this point, it's been made clear a hundred times over that it's a work...
View ArticleFacebook As Thin-Skinned And Short-Sighted As Apple When It Comes To...
A few months back, we wrote about Apple's heavy-handed approach in stopping a Chinese firm by the name of MIC Gadget from selling a Steve Jobs action figure. We discussed why it didn't make much...
View ArticleGuy Who Claims He Owns 84% Of Facebook Refiles Lawsuit
If you're successful, there's no shortage of people who will demand a cut of your success. With the Winklevoss situation nearing its close (one hopes), Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg can move on to some...
View ArticleFacebook, Once Again, Says That Ceglia's Claim To Own 84% Of Facebook Is A Fraud
Back in April, when Paul Ceglia refiled his lawsuit claiming to have a contract which gave him a huge chunk (up to 84%) of Facebook, some people pointed out that the refiled lawsuit sounded a lot more...
View ArticleIf You're Going To Forge An Email By Mark Zuckerberg, Make Sure You Use...
We've already mentioned that Facebook is claiming that the email evidence presented by Paul Ceglia for his claim that he should own a huge chunk of Facebook was a fraud. Time's Techland blog digs a...
View ArticlePaul Ceglia's Big Time Law Firm Drops Him In His Case To Claim Ownership Of A...
When Paul Ceglia refiled his lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that he's entitled to at least 50% (and perhaps more) of the company due to an agreement Zuckerberg supposedly signed in the very early...
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Original Contract Used By Paul Ceglia To Claim Facebook Ownership... Doesn't...
The latest chapter in the bizarre story of Paul Ceglia claiming a right to more than half of Facebook is that Facebook -- who has previously claimed that Ceglia is nothing but a fraud -- says that in...
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Paul Ceglia To Facebook: I Didn't Forge A Contract, You Did!
We just wrote about how, during the discovery process in the lawsuit in which Paul Ceglia claims he only recently discovered a contract giving him more than 50% of Facebook, Facebook found an original...
View ArticleIs Facebook Selling Out The Internet?
In newspapers across the country today, a who's who of massively successful entrepreneurs are asking Congress not to pass SOPA or PROTECT IP. On the list of people signing: Marc Andreessen, co-founder...
View ArticleIf You're Accused Of Trying To Scam Facebook Out Of 50%+ Of Its Equity,...
The case of Paul Ceglia, the guy who claimed that Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract giving him at least half (and maybe up to 84%) of Facebook, keeps getting more ridiculous. As more and more details...
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