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Google+ reaches 10M+ users; experts suggests 20M over the weekend

Posted on 12 July 2011 by Aeron M. Peterson

Facebook’s 750M users is far enough to reach for Google+ who just recently reached 10 million users Tuesday which is currently in Beta version.

Many experts agrees that Google+ users may posibly hit more than twice as today over the weekend. In PCWorld today confirmed that it is merely posible to reached their 20M users estimate.

Ancestry.com creator Paul Allen, estimated about 1.7M users last July 5 in Google+ status and said G+ users already surpassed seven million last weekend.

Idealab’s Bill Gross, founder and CEO of technology incubator supported Allen’s statement in a Google+ post yesterday.

“I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history,” Gross said. ” People are engaging with it like crazy.”

“The next year will tell. Will there be bumps in the road? Sure. Will Facebook and Twitter fight back with more innovation? Of course! But I’m saying that Google+ is already good enough, and the team on Google+ is being so responsive in a way that makes me believe they have a real winner here,” he said in his message.

Tom Anderson, cofounder of MySpace, have been vocal with the early success of Google+ and uses the service for blogging. From his post, he praises Mark Zuckerberg for making video chat available to the leading social networking site.

Not only that MySpace’s Tom Anderson can be seen at Google+, even Facebook CEO himself is using Google+, possibly to check out its features.

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Winklevoss twins’ and Divya Narendra Drop Case;Re-opens new case

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Winklevoss twins’ and Divya Narendra Drop Case;Re-opens new case

Posted on 27 June 2011 by Aeron M. Peterson

This year may have been the longest battle for the Winklevoss twins and partner Divya Narendra against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Barely month ago, Winklevoss twins’ appeal was rejected and they decided to drop the case. Parthers’ representative says,

“We’ve considered this case closed for a long time, and we’re pleased to see the other party now agrees.”

Although both sides have settled back in 2008, awarding the Winklevoss and partner with  $20 million in cash and $45 million worth of private Facebook stock at a time the company was valued at $15 billion.  Due to doubts with prices valuing of the company, Winklevoss argues that Facebook concealed information and they should have received more.

Days after the dropped the case, Winklevoss twins filed a new lawsuit against the Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra wants their case heard again after settling $65M in year 2008

Twins claims that Facebook “intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence” during their previous litigation.

Originally, Tyler and Cameron accused Mr Zuckerberg of stealing their idea to create the site.

But in the latest filing, last Thursday with the US District Court of Massachusetts, the Winklevoss twins and partner Divya Narendra said that Facebook hid some crucial information from them during settlement proceedings.

Neel Chatterjee, Facebook’s outside counsel only says:

“These are old and baseless allegations that have been considered and rejected previously by the courts.”

Winklevoss twins said that Mr Zuckerberg did not disclose some important documents in regards to the relationship between him and the brothers while they were at Harvard.

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Winklevoss twins’ latest Facebook appeal rejected

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Winklevoss twins’ latest Facebook appeal rejected

Posted on 18 May 2011 by Aeron M. Peterson

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss attempt to re-open their case against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been rejected in which the court already favored Mark Zuckerberg.

The twins had asked the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reconsider its April ruling upholding the $ 65m (40m) settlement from 2008.

The Winklevoss argues that Facebook concealed information and they should have received more Facebook shares in their chase more Facebook fortune.

Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand denies their claims that he stole the idea of Facebook. Check out The Social Network movie.

In April, a three-judge panel decided not to scrap the original settlement and not to allow a fresh case to begin. Read related story ,Facebook’s Mark over Winklevoss twins.

In their latest move, the Winklevoss twins had asked for a full panel of 11 judges to review that decision.

No fresh reasons were given for declining the appeal.

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra wants their case heard again after settling $65M in year 2008

Their lawyer Jerome Falk said in a statement that they would appeal to the Supreme Court.

The 2008 settlement gave them $ 20m in cash and $ 45m of stock valued at $ 36 a share.

But the shares are not yet traded anywhere, and the brothers say that they were duped be.

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Court favored Facebook’s Mark over Winklevoss twins

Posted on 12 April 2011 by Aeron M. Peterson

In the long dispute between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and colleague Divya Narendra over founding of Facebook, the opposing sides finally reached closure.

Finally federal appeals court panel ruled Monday that a 2008 deal between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and three former Harvard colleagues is valid and enforceable.

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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss's appeal came to an end in favor of Mark Zuckerberg

The decision upheld a negotiated agreement between Zuckerberg and the founders of a rival social-networking site, ConnectU, in their dispute over who came up with the Facebook idea by giving Divya Narendra and Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss a share of the privately held company, deemed to be worth about $65 million at the time of the settlement three years ago. Because of Facebook’s soaring value, that share is now worth in excess of $160 million.

He concluded: “At some point, litigation must come to an end. That point has now been reached.”

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said for the three-judge panel:

“The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace. And the courts might have obliged, had the Winklevosses not settled their dispute and signed a release of all claims against Facebook.”

ConnectU’s lawyers, which Facebook acquires through the settlement, had argued that the twins and Narendra were fraudulently misled about the value of Facebook and that crucial details were omitted from the settlement, rendering it invalid.

Facebook which is currently estimated more than $50 billion worth and the world’s largest social-networking site with members reached more than 500 million. In response, Facebook’s legal team argued at the January hearing in San Francisco that it was the responsibility of the ConnectU owners to determine what Facebook was worth.

Facebook’s deputy general counsel, Colin Stretch, said from his statement Monday,

“We appreciate the 9th Circuit’s careful consideration of this case and are pleased the court has ruled in Facebook’s favor.”

The three 9th Circuit judges had expressed doubts at the hearing about the twins’ claim that the deal was unenforceable for its lack of detail — at one point noting that agreements written on scrap paper or the backs of napkins had been upheld in court.

The argument over who came up with the Facebook concept was the subject of last year’s Oscar-winning film “The Social Network.”

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Internet Explorer 9 web browser goes live

Posted on 11 February 2011 by Aeron M. Peterson

Leading tech company Microsoft makes its Internet Explorer 9 web browser available for downloads.

IE, which has been leading the browser wars among its competitors like Google and Firefox has its version 9 available for public testing. Microsoft, has been losing its lead and was dethroned in EU last year at number one position after Firefox took took it from IE. Though, IE still rest at number one spot in North America says Statcounter.com with market share of 48.92% followed by Firefox (26.7%), Chrome (12.82%) and Safari (10.16%).
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“This is the first time that IE has been dethroned from the number one spot in a major territory,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “This appears to be happening because Google’s Chrome is stealing share from Internet Explorer while Firefox is mainly maintaining its existing share.”

After IE8 beta was downloaded 25 million times, the IE seems to hold back its position again. IE9 release candidate is the final test drive of its version before it’ll have its fully operational version.
Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer said to BBC News
“This release is one that is playing catch up [on past releases], but it leapfrogs everything and now you see the other folks on the back foot trying to catch up with us,”.
“This is a real race again in terms of browsers,” said Lance Ulanoff, editor-in-chief of PCMag.com.
“To some extent, Microsoft had ceded that race, but when I first heard about IE9, my initial reaction was ‘oh the game is on’.

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The Roommate topped Super Bowl Weekend box office

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The Roommate topped Super Bowl Weekend box office

Posted on 07 February 2011 by Aeron M. Peterson

“The Roommate” debuted to $15.6 million during last weekend topped box office, according to studio estimates. Movie is all about college student Sara who finds her safety jeopardized after she’s assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca portrays by Meester.  The Roommate review was not actually that good but it might be the other reason people watched the movie.

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Starring Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester and Cam Gigandet

The Roommate is followed by ”Sanctum,” at second place of weekend box office. The movie budgeted $30 million cave-diving thriller earned from its expedition last week just $9.2 million. James  Cameron, director of highest box office Avatar produced the R-rated film Sanctum which uses the same 3-D technology the filmmaker developed for Avatar.

In third is the Natalie Portman-Ashton Kutcher romantic comedy “No Strings Attached,” which fell a slim 37 percent for $8.4 million.

At fourth spot is “The King’s Speech”. The movie is right behind in fourth place, earning $8.3 million — a 25 percent decline — to bring its cumulative gross to $84.1 million.

Finally at top five is The Green Hornet. The movie earned last weekend $6.1M now at total gross of $87.2M which is about $12.8M  to hit $100M gross.

To wrap up, here’s the list of top ten movies of weekend box office for the Super Bowl Weekend of February 4, 2011

Movie Weekend Total
1 The Roommate (PG-13) $15.6 M $15.6 M
2 Sanctum (R) $9.2 M $9.2 M
3 No Strings Attached (R) $8.4 M $51.8 M
4 The King’s Speech (R) $8.3 M $84.1 M
5 The Green Hornet (PG-13) $6.1 M $87.2 M
6 The Rite (PG-13) $5.6 M $23.7 M
7 The Mechanic (R) $5.4 M $20.1 M
8 True Grit (PG-13) $4.8 M $155.0 M
9 The Dilemma (PG-13) $3.5 M $45.7 M
10 Black Swan (R) $3.4 M $95.9 M

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