Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:45AM TimeRazor is a mobile application launching in March that will help you find events and offers near you. The company announced today it has raised $3.4 million from private investors.
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:10AM Facebook Inc., with an eye toward future business relationships, wants to be friends with more social-media start-ups.
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 9:10PM In a well-circulated New York Times article, Jenna Wortham notes that Facebook doesn’t make any money from mobile. Despite a ton of mobile users — about half of its 845 million monthly users — it’s going to be a significant challenge for Facebook to build a mobile business that’s nearly as good as its web business.
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 9:07PM (Updates with court’s opinion in fourth paragraph.)
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., fighting a patent lawsuit filed by Oracle Corp., lost its appeals court bid to keep secret an engineer’s e-mail that says the Web search company should negotiate a license for Java technology.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington today denied Google’s request to overturn a judge’s order that the information could be presented to a jury when the case goes to trial. Tim Lindholm wrote the e-mail in August 2010, days before Oracle alleged in a lawsuit that Google’s Android operating system had been designed using patented and copyrighted features of Oracle’s Java programming language.
Lindholm’s e-mail was related to an effort by the company and its lawyers to formulate a response to Oracle’s allegations and is protected by attorney-client privilege, Mountain View, California-based Google argued. The Federal Circuit disagreed, saying that Lindholm’s e-mail states “he was responding to a request from Google’s management, not Google’s attorneys.”
“The e-mail’s discussion is directed at a negotiation strategy as opposed” to a legal strategy, Circuit Judge Alan Lourie wrote for the three-judge panel. “The e-mail does not evidence any sort of infringement or invalidity analysis.”
In the e-mail to Andrew Rubin, the executive in charge of Google’s mobile division, Lindholm said he was asked by company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to “investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome.”
“We’ve been over a bunch of these, and think they all suck,” Lindholm wrote. “We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need.”
Google said the e-mail was mistakenly disclosed to Oracle.
Oracle, based in Redwood City, California, has said it’s seeking at least $1 billion in damages. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has rejected earlier versions of how Oracle calculated the damages estimate.
The case is Oracle America Inc. v. Google Inc., 10-03561, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 9:33AM "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.