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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

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How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 - covering privacy issues no less? But Colleen Chien, IP expert and law professor at Santa Clara University, said Facebook "needs all the patents it can get, especially now after (its battle) with Yahoo.". What could possibly top all that?

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Mark Zuckerberg Wins Approval For His First-Ever Patent Application - From 6 Years Ago

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How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 - covering privacy issues no less? But at least one IP expert said Facebook needs all the patents it can get. Zuckerberg filed the application back in July 2006, the year he turned 22. What could possibly top all that? And the effort finally paid off.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. The company has no public URL yet.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. There’s been further research since 2006, obviously not mentioned in Matteo’s article. Two problems with this: 1.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter February 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

the world’s largest maker of proprietary database software, is acquiring Israeli startup Convergin, which makes software that lets telcos deliver services across multiple networks and platforms. For previous editions, click here. ORACLE IS BUYING ISRAELI SOFTWARE MAKER CONVERGIN FOR $85 MLN. Oracle Corp., DVTel, Inc., DVTel, Inc.,

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