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Flipboard adds 3 million users

April 14, 2013 6:27 pm / Leave a comment

Posted by Natalie Alameddine on April 14, 2013:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/flipboard-adds-3-million-users-since-launch-of-personalized-magazines-over-500000-magazines-created-to-date/

News Articles

April 14, 2013 6:25 pm / Leave a comment

Posted by James Van on April 14, 2013:

News Articles:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/microsofts-latest-scroogle-ads-attack-sharing-of-information-that-google-developers-need-to-process-transactions/

Every time you buy an app from Googleplay, your email, full name, and neighborhood where you live is passed off to appmakers. This occurs without clear warning every single time you buy an app

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/as-aereo-fights-a-clone-fox-threatens-to-go-to-cable-if-courts-continue-to-rule-in-aereos-favor/

After losing out against Aereo in the Second Circuit last week, News Corp’s COO Chase Carey threatened to pull Fox off of broadcast television and make it a cable channel.

Google Wants to Operate .Search as a “Dotless” Domain

April 14, 2013 6:22 pm / Leave a comment

Posted by Anjella Shirkhanloo on April 14, 2013:

Google Wants to Operate .Search as a “Dotless” Domain, Plans to Open .Cloud, .Blog and .App to others.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/google-wants-to-operate-search-as-a-dotless-domain/

The mission of the proposed gTLD, .search, is to provide a domain name space that makes it easier for Internet users to locate and make use of the search functionality of their choice,” Google writes in its amended application.

Patent Trolls No More

April 14, 2013 6:21 pm / Leave a comment

Posted by Stephanie Wong on April 14, 2013:

A new San Francisco based start-up is looking to kill off patent infringement lawsuits patent trolls bring forth.

http://bgr.com/2013/04/08/patent-trolls-google-startup-423553/

Apple Licensing Patents

April 10, 2013 11:24 am / Leave a comment

Posted by Anthony Verdugo on April 10, 2013:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57578833-37/apple-pays-$10m-to-license-palm-other-patents/

Prince’s people abuse copyright law – again!

April 10, 2013 11:23 am / 1 Comment on Prince’s people abuse copyright law – again!

Posted by Jasmine Braxton on April 10, 2013:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130403/13353622562/heres-vine-video-prince-abused-dmca-to-takedown.shtml

Patent Trolls

April 10, 2013 11:17 am / 1 Comment on Patent Trolls

Posted by Nada Rastad on April 10, 2013:

Coming off hot the heels of a study by Hastings Professor Feldman that more than half of all patent lawsuits are being brought by patent trolls, Google, an obvious target for NPEs, is trying to get the FTC and DOJ to take a closer look at what all these lawsuits is doing to competition. Interesting considering that Google is also defensively buying up companies like Motorola so they can grow their own portfolio – be it for defensive or offensive reasons.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57578166-93/google-lobbies-against-patent-privateering/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57578645-38/patent-trolls-launched-majority-of-u.s-patent-cases-in-2012/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20