Image: Wikipedia Sean Parker, Facebook’s founding president, was interviewed at a conference. Parker was a co-founder of Napster and between Napster’s crash and Facebook went through a rough patch, sleeping on friend’s couches. He said he spent time “trolling on Myspace all day long for girls, trying to get laid.” His honestly is commendable...
m4tt does the new legislation say anything about the scope – particularly breadth of scope – of allowable patents in the US? For example as relates to the awarding to Apple yesterday of patent 7,966,578 (http://goo.gl/bV32M) and to the awarding of often vague and commonly ubiquitous software techniques. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/JvLjE8gq3dk/
Foursquare is expanding its relationship with American Express to provide local deals to people who sync their cards to their Foursquare accounts. AmEx did a trial at SXSW, and that went well enough that it is rolling out the deals more broadly. The discounts, such as $20 off a $50 purchase at Sports Authority,...
Following up on our story earlier this evening that PopCap Games is in late stage acquisition discussions for a sum of over $1 billion — we’ve now heard from two sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts. The high price of the deal ($1+ billion) means that this would be a huge bet for EA...