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

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. 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!’s Regarding social networking, Yahoo! Yesterday Yahoo!

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Beyond Verbal (2012) – understands people’s moods, attitudes and emotional characteristics (also known as personality) from their raw vocal intonations in real-time, as they speak. Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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

ReadWriteStart

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.". The company redoubled its efforts to get the patent through just days after it announced on February 1, 2012, that it planned to go public. The patent is broad.

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Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Tools for Hackathons – added Dec 2012. Social networking. IP Location Tools.

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

ReadWriteStart

But at least one IP expert said Facebook needs all the patents it can get. The company redoubled its efforts to get the patent through just days after it announced on February 1, 2012, that it planned to go public. According to IP experts, it's not uncommon to persist in getting a patent. The patent is broad.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Next, they carefully consider the range of multiples being used today to value companies being acquired or doing IPOs in the market that the business is in.   However, I assume that the proposed business solves a real problem that people are willing to pay for and that it may be lest costly, more efficient, and IP-protected. [5]