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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. My family and friends helped me bounce ideas around, and when someone said it was a soft as butter – voila! Buttercloth was born.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

May 7, 2010. May 8, 2010 12:54 AM. May 8, 2010 1:00 AM. However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. May 8, 2010 7:55 AM. May 8, 2010 9:55 AM. May 8, 2010 12:06 PM. Anil Dash. A Blog About Making Culture. About Anil Dash.

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The Making of Lytro

K9 Ventures

This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. ” Ren and I started brainstorming about the potential for commercializing his technology in 2005. Almost every VC firm came back with how they either don’t do hardware, or they don’t do IP licensing plays.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

He died unexpectedly in December 2010. Back in 2005 under Walker, Dialpad Communications, Inc., an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! He and my mom encouraged all of us to excel academically cause he knew we had a lot to offer the world. Here’s a bit of history.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). Then came the third wave, which included WhatsApp (2010), KakaoTalk (2010), Viber (2010), WeChat (2011), LINE (2011), and Facebook Messenger (2011).

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Oracle Buys Pitango-Backed Convergin

VC Cafe

I n its 52 M&A deal since 2005 and its third acquisition announced in the past week, Oracle acquires Israel-based Convergin , developer of a real-time service brokering applications for the telecom industry. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2010. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.