Vringo was founded in 2006 as a mobile software firm. Last year the company merged with I/P Engine, an intellectual property firm that makes money by licensing patents. Microsoft has become the latest company to face a suit from Vringo subsidiary...
Long has worked in publishing, software, analytics, digital media and a number of other sectors in her two decade career in finance. Over the last three months, I have been able to work with a management team of seasoned search agency and software...
Oracle lawyer David Boies has argued that executive emails show Rubin had informed Google staffers they may have to use another software base for their Dalvik platform. As the Google-Oracle trial continues into its second week, Oracle lawyers today...
The trial between Oracle and Google over the use Java software within the Android platform began in California yesterday with the selection of the jury that will hear the dispute between the two technology giants.
The email was written in August 2010 by Tim Lindholm, a software engineer at Google, to his superiors. He suggested that Google would have no choice but to start licensing Java as no other technologies would be suitable for use within Android and...
That certainly helped end an ongoing patent dispute between Google and Yahoo back in 2004 prior to Google's IPO, along with Google agreeing to license the software Yahoo bought from Overture. Yahoo has warned Facebook that it will face legal action...
Microsoft was also on the attack yesterday, releasing a new video via Google-owned YouTube called “Googlighting” that mocks Google for selling “productivity software on the side” (a.k.a. Microsoft also pre-empted any criticisms from Google that it...
Google made this the "default experience" for signed-in users on Google.com in October and, as a consequence, stopped passing query data to analytics software including Google Analytics. The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance gave Microsoft direct...
This includes $1 billion saved by allocating profits to a Bermuda-based law firm (where corporate income tax is non-existent), the use of the Google Ireland Holdings for licensing and intellectual properties, and the amount charged for licensing...
These companies stated they were concerned about Google's potential abuse of the software, especially if Google restricted other companies from licensing it; Bing, Kayak, Expedia, and many other travel sites use ITA for flight data.
Enterprise SEM/SEO software providers Covario and Kenshoo have formed a strategic alliance that will see Covario licensing Kenshoo Enterprise and Kenshoo Social. In describing the terms of their licensing agreement, Covario said they will, “utilize...
HTC's counter is that Apple violates patents for updating software wirelessly. Meanwhile, Acer and Viewsonic have signed patent licensing agreements with Microsoft. HTC already signed a patent licensing agreement with Microsoft for $5 per device...
The rumored reason was that the software (i.e. SageTV, a software and hardware company that built a product for watching and recording TV shows from any computer with a high-speed internet connection, is likely to be integrated into GoogleTV.
That includes Android, whose Dalvik software (an element of the OS used to run applications) is one of the targets of Oracle's claim. Oracle attempted to file an injunction that would have forced Google to stop using anything related to Java and...
Continue licensing ITA's QPX software to airfare websites on commercially reasonable terms. The deal, 9 months in the making, will see Google develop and license travel software that would be available to rivals to avoid falling into the realm of...
Microsoft, on the other hand, has built it's business on software licensing, where the software is preloaded onto any desktop and the is bundled into the price of the computer. Nonetheless, Apple sells products where the hardware and the software...
Nick discusses how computer systems and software algorithms are at the center of business today, and the implications for privacy. Paul Miller of ZDNet's The Semantic Web says, “New York-based semantic search company hakia will today use the Search...
At the SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) conference last week, major publishers seemed more interested in driving traffic to their destinations than in licensing their online content to the portals.
Best of all, for Abraham, her 15-year history as a software product manager gives her an edge in being able to visualize and execute these new product integrations. In this way, the model is similar to private label platform licensing, but instead...
At the recent SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) conference, many traditional publishers heard Yahoo! Yahoo's Scott Moore explained that more than 80-90% of their content comes from licensing.
