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...initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article on cryptography...
...When Microsoft instituted a similar feature, called Smart Tags, in Internet Explorer back in 2001, the company faced such a strong backlash that it dropped Smart Tags from Windows XP. Mayer says Google is unlikely to remove AutoLink but the ultimate decision will be based on public feedback over the next few months...
...player in the spring of their senior year at Exeter. The plug-in generates playlists catered to a user’s musical tastes. Zuckerberg and D’Angelo called the program Synapse. Soon enough Slashdot.com, a widely read tech-blog, wrote a blurb about it, inspiring Winamp, Microsoft, and a number of other companies to send buy-out offers Zuckerberg?...
Zuckerberg calls the lost chance a “learning experience,” but says missing out on a $2 million offer from Microsoft hasn’t made him eager to sell this time around or to accept venture money...
This fall, as expenses for lawyer Daniel K. Hampton, who has represented Microsoft in antitrust litigation, became problematic, TheFacebook made its first move toward outside investments. Normally investors shy away from companies facing a federal lawsuit, but Peter Thiel—co-founder of PayPal—was willing to take the risk...