Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
SEO by the SeaGoogle has been granted a new patent, "Determining relevance scores for locations. Adding What You're Doing to Status Updates – Facebook NewsroomFacebook status updates can now include what you're watching, reading, listening to...
He even offered to sell his patent to other oral hygiene companies. Orabrush is one of the top subscribed sponsor channels on YouTube – just behind brands like Apple, Red Bull and Old Spice – and has more than 340,000 Facebook fans.
Facebook and Yahoo have reached a settlement in their twin patent infringement cases and agreed on an advertising deal. Facebook soon fired back with a patent suit of its own, claiming that Yahoo was infringing upon patents it held in the social...
Yahoo has asked for a two week extension in its patent lawsuit with Facebook as both parties seek to come to a settlement. The firms are indulging their lawyers in a game of patent ping pong that started in March when Yahoo sued Facebook for...
Yahoo is also involved in a patent dispute with Facebook, the threat of which forced Facebook to buy $550 million in patents from Microsoft. Yahoo's leadership dramas refuse to die down after revelations that recently appointed CEO Scott Thompson...
The company later made a second strategic transaction when it purchased a series of social networking patents from Microsoft to further strengthen its patent portfolio. Facebook is reportedly pushing back its planned initial public offering (IPO...
Microsoft and Facebook have announced a whopping $550 million deal under which the social networking giant will be given the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio that Microsoft acquired from AOL.
Note: there have been some updates to the original PageRank patent, which Bill Slawski covers in detail here. CNN has authority signals, which engines can take into account: people link to it, they reference it on Twitter and Facebook, they comment...
Those 300 additional patents and patent applications will be non-exclusive to Microsoft, however. The agreement with Microsoft represents the culmination of a robust auction process for our patent portfolio,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL’s Chairman and...
Facebook has made good on its vow to fight Yahoo's patent claim by filing a counter suit also alleging patent infringement. Additionally, Facebook issued a categorical denial of a series of patent infringement claims filed by Yahoo.
Facebook has bought 750 patents from IBM in a move that appears designed to bolster its ability to defend itself against patent-related lawsuits, particularly a recently issued case from rival Yahoo. The patent acquisition comes hot on the heels of...
If this seems a bit familiar, it may be because Yahoo and Google were in the midst of a patent fight over pay-per-click and bidding advertising patents Yahoo acquired when it bought Overture, eventually settling for 2.7 million shares of stock...
From patent analysis to viewing "what may be", Bill Slawski does a bang-up job of summarizing the areas many of us get glassy-eyed thinking about. Note: I'm including only Twitter and Google+ so you can follow them without those included beinging...
The stance taken by Yahoo could open up yet another swathe of litigation in the technology sector, where numerous firms including Google, Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in patent battles as firms look to impinge on competitors' ability to...
Internal links need to follow the "reasonable surfer" patent. Facebook/Twitter/other login comments are a way of sharing the content on other platforms. One area that search engines have made a number of significant advancements in recent years is...
This would be less concerning if Facebook didn't have a patent on using the tracked data for just such a purpose. While Facebook corporate spokesperson Barry Schnitt stated, "We patent lots of things, and future products should not be inferred from...
However, intellectual property analyst Florian Mueller argued that Schmidt's comments "totally ignore the basics of patent law", namely that Microsoft was first to the game with its patents. Patent law is a strict liability regime without an...
Despite Facebook’s denial that the data is used to target consumers with advertisements, the user data they’re collecting and the patent awarded them September 22 tell a very different story. However, it is clear that this new patent doesn’t apply...
While the issue has since been resolved, select data is still tracked and recent Facebook patent information indicates that all logged-out tracking may be intentional. As reported by Bill Slawski, a patent filed by Facebook in February of this year...
