It appears Facebook, in its attempt to preserve its standing as the preeminent social media behemoth, has acquired yet another tech company. Face.com, a company devoted to face recognition software, has been purchased by Facebook for an undisclosed sum.
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Internet Cases: “Plaintiff eventually got kicked off of Facebook because she allegedly harassed other users, doing things like sending friend requests to people she did not know. When Facebook refused to reactivate plaintiff’s account (even after she drove from her home in Maryland to Facebook’s California offices twice), she sued. Facebook moved to [...] Wall St. Journal: “They’re the everyday fixtures of the Internet experience: pop-up stock quotes on a website, suggestions for related reading near a news article, videos along the side of your screen. Now, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas, and he’s demanding that some of [...] Findlaw: “In this column, I’ll focus not on the CDA holding dismissing Facebook as a defendant, but instead on the subsequent decision dismissing the defamation claim against the teenagers who posted to the Facebook group, and thus ending the case. I’ll argue that the judge did the right thing in dismissing the defamation [...] Los Angeles Times: “A woman who locked her son out of his Facebook account and posted vulgarities and other items on it was convicted . . . of misdemeanor harassment and ordered not to have contact with the teenager.” From the was that wrong department: A 16 year old boy alleges in charges filed against his mother, Denise New, that mom hacked into his Facebook account, changed his password and wrote defamatory material about him. The kid is asking for a no contact order from the court. Mom says she was [...] Gizmodo: “One day, you’re going to die. And when you do, you online presence—like your social network profiles, your blog comments, and your web services—will serve as your very first memorial. Here’s how it’ll play out. . . . And Facebook knows this. They’ve got a healthy help section for the bereaved, which [...] Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the [...] |
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