Notable: Harvard Didn't Try To Claim Ownership Of Facebook
With the big Facebook IPO dominating the tech news, the folks over at the Boston Globe have highlighted a point that hasn't received much, if any, attention. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook (with the...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Should Just Admit She Doesn't Understand Facebook's...
There's been some buzz today over the news that former Facebooker, Randi Zuckerberg, who's also the older sister to Mark Zuckerberg, is among the many people who don't understand Facebook's privacy...
View ArticleInnovators Break Stuff, Including The Rules: How Gates, Jobs & Zuckerberg...
In a conversation with some folks in the tech industry recently, someone pointed out that nearly every super famous entrepreneur likely could have, at some point, been legitimately accused of...
View ArticleNow That Paul Ceglia's Been Arrested For Fraud, Court Says It Can Probably...
This is hardly a surprise (other than the fact it took this long...), but since Paul Ceglia was arrested for fraud back in November after it became pretty clear that he had almost certainly forged the...
View ArticleWashington Post Quietly Backtrcks On Claim That Tech Companies Knowingly Gave...
The Next Web is noting that the Washington Post has quietly backtracked on its original claim that tech companies "participated knowingly" in the PRISM spying program. And, at the same time, some of...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Says The US Has Become A Threat To, Rather Than A Champion...
Better late than never: it appears that Mark Zuckberberg is finally really pissed off about the NSA surveillance efforts. This comes in the wake of the recent reports that the NSA sought to build a...
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...
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