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Yahoo and Facebook Resolve Patent Dispute

Posted by Soulskill on from the sharing-is-caring dept.

benfrog writes "Yahoo and Facebook have resolved their patent dispute. The two companies have struck a deal which brings Yahoo's lawsuit against Facebook to an end and expands their existing ad and content partnership. The two companies confirmed the deal in a press release. No money changed hands."

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  1. Too bad by sandytaru · · Score: 4, Insightful

    - that the rest of the tech giants don't follow this example and stop feeding the lawyers.

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  2. Resolved for their benefit, not for ours by protonbishop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's really scary is that all the elephants are making deals to not sue each other, further isolating themselves from the real harm in software patents. They retain full control of their patents thereby raising the barrier to entry for everyone else. The power is consolidating, my friends, and if you don't have a patent war-chest you'll not be invited to play.

  3. Re:Alliances by fwoop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too late. Facebook is expanding their online ad presence outside of facebook, so if you ever gave facebook your age/gender/etc, they'll use that to target ads to you even if you're not logged into facebook. This is starting with Zynga but will go beyond zynga. I'm frankly quite surprised, in this age of privacy concern, that no one has raised a red flag. But I find privacy concern is more about following fads rather than actual privacy.