3G iPhone launch window: June 15th to July 12th?

Last year, before the launch of the iPhone, AT&T employees were sent a memo instructing them not to take vacations from June 15th to July 15th, due to the possibility increased traffic because of a new product. The…

VentureBeat » The Facebook lawsuit that hasn’t gone away

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Before he launched Facebook at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg worked for two brothers on a project called HarvardConnect.com that also wanted to connect students and alumni.
Zuckerberg later left that project, and showed up…

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VentureBeat » Google squelches Sharogle

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Google has killed a valiant effort by a company that wanted to let you partake of Google’s profits.
Until six days ago, a company called Sharogle was giving you a portion of the ad revenue Google gets from your…

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VentureBeat » Facebook’s first acquisition: secretive start-up Parakey

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Facebook has acquired Parakey, a Mountain View, Calif., startup that had been working on a new way for people to work seamlessly on applications while online and offline.
Founded by former Mozilla Firefox browser…

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VentureBeat » Revlayer introduces controversial new video ad format

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Revlayer is a New York company that just launched a controversial new video advertising technology that publishers will love, but video creators might hate.
It lets a publisher like VentureBeat slap an ad straight onto…

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