Yahoo Patent Infringement Dispute with Facebook
As Facebook readies itself for an initial public offering this spring, tensions are running high in Silicon Valley. A bit too high, perhaps. Yahoo has just sued Facebook for patent infringement over 10 patents that involve methods to advertise online. A similar suit occurred in 2004, when Yahoo sued Google just prior to its IPO. Yahoo has recently come under the management of a new CEO, and it looks like he means business. After initially becoming the internet’s main source of networking and online searching, Yahoo has fallen in recent years to Google and Facebook. A Facebook spokesman recently told...
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