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Saturday, June 28th, 2008A U.S. District Court judge has decided to enforce the settlement that Facebook and would-be rival ConnectU signed in February, rejecting the ConnectU founders’ claims of fraud.
The legal battle between the two social-networking sites has gone on since 2004, when ConnectU founders Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya …
Microsoft to acquire mobile-data company
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Microsoft announced Thursday it has made plans to acquire MobiComp, a mobile-data company founded in 2000
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. MobiComp, which is based in Braga, Portugal, will become part of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business division.
The acquisition will be used to bolster a number of …
MySpace releases API for Data Availability
Saturday, June 28th, 2008MySpace's Data Availability logo.
MySpace is set to release on Thursday the application programming interface (API) for Data Availability, a developer project that the News Corp.-owned social network announced in early May. Through Data Availability, participating social sites can let users synchronize accounts with MySpace profiles, importing …
Atom Films relaunched as Comedy Central sister site
Saturday, June 28th, 2008NEW YORK–Two years after acquiring it, MTV Networks has shaped Atom Films into Atom.com, a sister site to its Comedy Central network dedicated to short-form, Web-based comedy.
Executives from the Viacom-owned MTV Networks held a press conference here on Thursday to kick off the new site, which Executive Vice …
I’m In Like With You raises $1.5 million, looks to game development
Saturday, June 28th, 2008I’m In Like With You, a social-network-turned-gaming-site that caught a brief flurry of press for its eye-popping design when it launched, has just closed a $1.5 million round of venture funding led by Spark Capital. It’s the first funding the site has received since its angel round …
Cartier pretties up MySpace with ad campaign
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Love by Cartier, an ad campaign that's not exactly for the emo-teen demographic.
When you think about “bling” on MySpace, you probably think about glitter text on profiles, or maybe Swarovski-studded Sidekicks, not Cartier jewelry. But that hasn’t stopped the legendary luxury brand from launching a promotional …
Google releases string of beta Blogger updates
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Google announced on Friday the release of a number of updates to its Blogger publishing platform–well, sort of. The updates have gone into Blogger in Draft, the service’s beta platform, with the expectation that they’ll eventually become full features.
The updates will seem a bit humdrum for people …
Facebook ‘gender policy’ has grammar in mind
Saturday, June 28th, 2008A blog post from Facebook product manager Naomi Gleit early on Friday announced an update to the site that initially may seem extremely minor: after years of using the grammatically abhorrent reflexive pronoun “themself” to describe actions in members’ activity feeds (i.e. “Dwight Schrute tagged themself in the album ‘…
ConnectU founders score spots on U.S. Olympic rowing team
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss might not have gotten their way with Mark Zuckerberg, but they’ve got a different prize in mind now: Olympic glory.
Tyler Winklevoss, one-third of ConnectU’s founding and one-half of the U.S. men’s straight pair.
(Credit: usrowing.org)
The identical twins, who founded …
Lessig: Don’t fall into the four-year trap
Thursday, June 26th, 2008NEW YORK–Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University law professor and co-founder of the new Change Congress project, gave the audience at the Personal Democracy Forum conference a brief history lesson on Tuesday morning. His message: government corruption is nothing new.
On a massive display screen, he loaded up a portrait of legendary …