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The name Friendster is a portmanteau of "friend" and Napster. Napster at the time was a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that was launched in 1999; by 2000, "Napster" was practically a household name, thanks to several high-profile lawsuits filed against it that year. The original Friendster site was founded in Mountain ...
Jonathan Abrams. Jonathan Abrams [ 1] is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is best known as the founder of Friendster [ 2] where he worked from 2002 to 2005. He then founded Socializr, where he worked from 2005 to 2010, and Nuzzel, where he stayed from 2012 to 2018. He has invested in over 50 companies, including Docker and ...
t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held ...
Just as the wounds surrounding digital payment company Offerpal and social gaming heavy Zynga are just starting to heal, MOL Global Ptr. Ltd. an online digital payment company that facilitates ...
The Six Degrees patent, [1] [2] United States patent #6,175,831, "Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system", granted to Andrew Weinreich, et al., has been considered the definitive patent covering social networking by the owners of Tribe.net and LinkedIn. [3] The patent claims covered the building of an online ...
List of prolific inventors. The 100 known most prolific inventors based on worldwide utility patents are shown in the following table. While in many cases this is the number of utility patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it may include utility patents granted by other countries, as noted by the source references ...
She then joined Friendster where she led the team of mobile product management. There she launched a novel revenue based on Friendster-only data packs and SMS packs sold via phone carriers. After one and a half years living in the Silicon Valley, she partnered with her Australian friend Ben Keighran to start a company called Chomp in 2009 ...
List of software patents. This is a list of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent ). Software patents cover a wide range of topics and there is therefore important debate about whether such subject-matter should be excluded from patent protection. [1]