Word: connectu
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...California-based legal publication revealed Tuesday that Facebook.com paid $65 million to settle accusations that its founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’07 stole elements from rival social networking site ConnectU to create his multi-billion dollar Web site. The Recorder obtained the information from an inadvertent disclosure in the January newsletter of Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver and Hedges, the law firm that represented ConnectU until it was fired last spring. In 2004, ConnectU founders Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04, Tyler O. H. Winklevoss, ’04, and Divya K. Narendra...
...lawsuit filed in 2004 by ConnectU founders Divya K. Narendra ’04, Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04, and Tyler O. H. Winklevoss ’04 claimed that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea from them. The case was dismissed...
...These things tend to fade away fairly quickly,” O’Brien said. “I think people know about the lawsuit between ConnectU and Facebook, but they [don’t] know much about...
...Boca Raton, Fl., recently bought the money magazine Worth, and also owns the plastic surgery-oriented magazine NewBeauty. Sandow Media’s current publications target wealthy readers—the same audience sought out by 02138. 02138 captured headlines last year for its coverage of the Facebook-ConnectU lawsuit. The magazine published in its November/December 2007 issue an article, “Poking Facebook,” about the controversial creation of the networking Web site. 02138 also posted Zuckerberg’s Harvard College application, his personal diary, and an e-mail he wrote to the College?...
...House dorm room, according to the New York Times. The Times reported yesterday that Facebook and ConnectU—a similar site launched by three Harvard graduates who allege that Zuckerberg stole the concept after working for them—will soon settle their competing law suits. Neither Facebook, ConnectU, nor Facebook’s attorneys returned requests for comment yesterday. A lawyer representing ConnectU declined to comment. According to the Times, “a person briefed on the status of the dueling lawsuits” said a settlement was expected within weeks. In Sept. 2004, ConnectU?...