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Interval Licensing Company filed a complaint against violation of patents in the field of e-commerce and Internet searching, belonging to it, from companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Apple. In addition to these companies, including 11 offenders were also AOL, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples and YouTube.
Interval has an impressive portfolio of patents, but did not produce. The founder of the Company is one of the men who stood at the origins of Microsoft, Paul Allen. In connection with such a massive suit commercially inactive company, some observers have called Interval «patent troll.
"The lawsuit against some of the most innovative companies in America reflects a regrettable trend of people struggling to compete in court rather than to do it on the market" – commented lawsuit spokesman of Google.
"Innovation, not litigation, are a way to market these types of products and services that will benefit millions of users in the world" – said the representative of Facebook Andrew Noyce.
Google has announced a vacancy, head of music service. According to the publication MediaMemo, the company is negotiating with several major industry experts, but the recruitment process is far from complete.
Currently, the company officially announced the development of its own music service, but this summer has already hired a prominent representative of the music industry Elizabeth Moody.
According to analysts, the options of their own music service to Google two: "cloud" services, lets you play music videos, or the virtual music store that allows purchase audio track with the help of mobile phones running Android.
New figures published by market research firm ComScore, indicate that social network Facebook ahead of the traffic Google Orkut social network in India, where Google has long been the sole leader of the Social Web space.
The use of social networking in India for the year from July 2009 increased by 43%. Over 33 million Indians aged 15 and older are owners of accounts in various social services. This figure is about 84% of all Internet users of the country. It is estimated ComScore, 20.9 million users in India are visitors online Facebook, while Orkut visited only 19.9 million. Over the past year, Facebook has grown by 179%, while Orkut – only 16%.
Orkut, which was opened in 2004 as one of the "side" projects Google, has never been popular in the U.S.. Nevertheless, he became very popular in countries such as Brazil and India, which for a long time largely surpassed in popularity the world’s leading Facebook. Last month, Facebook reached the mark of 500 million fans worldwide, according to analysts ComScore, the greatest growth potential of the network has in Asia-Pacific region, where the penetration of Facebook market reaches only 17%.
Google launches new version of mobile site Google Finance for the iPhone and Android. According to editor of TechCrunch, service began to develop in the direction of an industry leader favorites Yahoo Finance.
The new interface makes it easy to use service and an emphasis on speed of access to financial data of the user on the go. Data collected in a single column that allows the user to view all necessary information on the screen, simply scroll down this page. The page displays the latest financial news, stock figures and graphs. Innovation has been the final totals and a list of cuts and increases in rates.
In addition to changing processing service, Google added a link on the Finance page at the top of Google Mobile. When a user searches on the stock exchange indices and shares, it will automatically redirected to a page of Google Finance.
Google has acquired Jambool, a software developer of virtual currencies. It belongs to the software Jambool Social Gold, allowing a variety of online projects, including Facebook and MySpace, to implement virtual money for the calculation with the users.
On reaching an agreement announced founders Jambool – CEO Vikas Gupta (Vikas Gupta) and Technical Director Husceyn Reza (Reza Hussein) at the official website of the company.
"We are very pleased to be part of the family Google», – said the report, but the amount of the transaction were not disclosed. According to analysts, the transaction amount is not less than $ 70 million, and the very fact of their detention confirms the assumption that the search giant intends to create its own social network that can compete with Facebook and MySpace.
At no joke tensions between Google and Facebook, and indicates the recent acquisition of the latter company’s Chai Labs, specializes in "semantic search" for $ 10 million, some experts believe that this acquisition may indicate a serious intention to enter the leadership Facebook search market, while others believe that the goal is just better built-in Facebook search engine.
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