Tag: CONNECTU

Share It's not a good week to be a Winklevoss. Today, Time magazine crowned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as its 'Person of the Year,' just a few days after the embattled brothers launched a new legal campaign against their former Harvard classmate and longtime nemesis. And, as if that didn't rub enough salt in their wounds, they now have an entirely new courtroom war to wage, against a guy who ...

Share Silicon Alley Insider just published a rather lengthy investigation into the origins of Facebook. Specifically, it addresses the allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for his social network from ConnectU, which he had been hired to help code. The report has also uncovered a pair of unsettling anecdotes that paint a less than flattering picture of its founder, including hacking ...

You might remember a little over a year ago a relatively unknown company called ConnectU (started by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda) sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their ideas to create Facebook. While the lawsuit quietly drags on, at least one member of the ConnectU team has apparently softened his opposition to the ubiquitous social network. Divya Narenda ...

Facebook 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 ...