Facebook uses Zuckerberg patent to countersue Yahoo
Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Facebook has responded to a ten patent lawsuit from Yahoo by asserting ten patents of its own — including two that list CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the inventor. The new development was revealed in a court filing in which Facebook not only denied Yahoo’s allegations but asserted patent infringement claims of its own. The filing pours gasoline on what is shaping up to…
Read more...Video: Google’s big plans for Hangouts On Air
Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Google will soon give everyone the ability to live stream their Google+ Hangouts to an unlimited audience, Google Engineering Director Chee Chew told me at the Social TV Summit in San Francisco Tuesday. Hangout video chats are currently limited to 10 participants. Only a few select users have been pre-approved to stream their Hangouts to a bigger group of viewers, something Google has…
Read more...Electric car charging: Let’s not make this more complicated
Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants This article originally appeared on GigaOM Pro (subscription required) Despite tepid sales of electric cars, NRG Energy’s electric vehicle charging network project eVgo is rolling out chargers in public places like malls in Houston and Dallas. The company is getting in early, snapping up agreements to place its chargers at key points of visibility, good security and high traffic. NRG is betting that…
Read more...Draw Something’s unlikely power boost: China
Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants OMGPOP’s Draw Something, as we’ve reported, has become a huge mobile gaming success, prompting a quick acquisition of OMGPOP by Zynga . And while I went into some of the factors for Draw Something’s success, one reason that may have gone overlooked is how well the game is doing in China, home to the second-largest download market for iOS apps after the U.S. Now,…
Read more...Book time with a startup founder this weekend through Exec
Mobile Marketing is Sponsored by Mobi Consultants Exec launched a few weeks ago with an ultra-easy-to-use system for booking executive assistants to do various odd jobs around San Francisco. Now it’s extending that service to include booking time with a few startup founders, according to the company blog. On Saturday, April 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Exec will let users schedule phone or Skype meetings with different serial…
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