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

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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! And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process.

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When Does Zynga Become a Value Stock?

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The company’s lost nearly 80% of its value from the peak earlier this year, in the run up to Facebook’s IPO, and currently trades below $3/share… a fraction of it’s IPO price of $10. Zynga’s faced a lot of pressure in the public markets recently. That much we all know.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

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The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months.

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