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Facebook Facing Lawsuit By Rival Site

by Terrence O'Brien on July 25, 2007 at 01:10 PM

Facebook in CourtFacebook is now suffering the price of success: Costly court cases. Founders of a rival social networking site, ConnectU, accuse Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea while at Harvard.

The suit claims that Zuckerberg was hired to complete some coding that ran ConnectU, but never delivered and instead created Facebook based on the ideas of the ConnectU founders. They are seeking ownership of Facebook as compensation. Not a bad prize, given the site recently turned down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo!.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda claim to have started work on ConnectU in 2002. Facebook's lawyers are seeking to have the case dismissed, saying that the case makes broad accusations with no evidence to back up the claims.

Facebook has been on the rise for quite a while now, and has been in existence for over three years. This raises the suspicious question -- what took so long for ConnectU to get this case going?

From BBC

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Tags: ConnectU, Facebook, lawsuits, Mark Zuckerberg, MarkZuckerberg, social networking, social networking sites, SocialNetworking, SocialNetworkingSites

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