Facebook has denied several reports that it is developing a smartphone, in a move which would up the competition between itself and major rivals, Google and Apple. Reports yesterday alleged that Facebook is developing smartphone software, according to a “source with knowledge of the project”. Yesterday TechCrunch, a technology specialist site, ran a saying the [...]
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30 Aug
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Google, Apple, Facebook, eight others over patents
Billionaire Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has sued 11 major Web-based companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and eBay, alleging they infringed internet patents he owns. AOL, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples are the other companies accused of violating four patents said cover fundamental web technologies first developed at Interval Research in [...]
25 Aug
Facebook now ‘worth $33 billion’
Facebook is now worth as much as $33.7 billion, after investors have paid up to $76 for a share in the company ahead of its much-hyped flotation on the stock market, according to a report. The Financial Times has said that the implied valuation means that Facebook is now has a higher valuation than technology [...]
23 Aug
Facebook Places ‘boring’ says Foursquare chief
Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, a location-based social network, has called Places, Facebook’s new check-in tool, “boring” and “unexciting”. Crowley, said he had now had time to play around with Facebook’s new location tool, which directly rivals his own product by allowing people to share their location with their network, through checking into bars, [...]
19 Aug
Facebook Places: social network adds location check-ins
Facebook has launched Facebook Places, a new tool which allows its members to automatically share their location with each other. The social network, which has over 500 million members, has launched the new mobile phone tool in the US-only, with plans for a global roll-out “soon”, according to the Facebook’s blog post. It is [...]
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