Facebook bought the entire Friendster portfolio of social networking patents earlier this year. The company bought the patents from Friendster acquirer MOL in a deal that included advertising,a partnership for payments… Read more »
Wowd, a real-time search engine, may not have figured out how to get its own service to scale to a large audience yet, but it’s about to get some validation that… Read more »
Could a broad set of patents around collective buying be the ammo Tippr needs to chase Groupon? That’s what CEO Martin Tobias is betting, having bought up the intellectual property generated… Read more »
A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google and Facebook for patent infringement. Wireless Ink, maker of Winksite, says it owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join… Read more »
Facebook was on Tuesday granted a U.S. patent for aspects of its news feed, as was first reported by AllFacebook. The patent is particularly valuable because news-feed style communication has become… Read more »
Palm is applying for a U.S. patent on the concept of notifying of a mobile device based on the proximity of another one. But so is Apple, and likely even more… Read more »
The Russian visual search site Quintura has been awarded a patent for a way to display search results that it claims a minor feature of Google infringes. CEO Yakov Sadchikov said… Read more »
Did you know that a startup called Vidyo powers Gmail’s (s GOOG) video chat feature? Not many people do, and that seems to be by design. There’s a tiny little reference… Read more »
Flixor, a four-year-old startup that enables the insertion of a 3-D version of a digital photo of face in a video, has received a patent for its technology. Hollywood-based Flixor has… Read more »