Patent War Between Facebook & Yahoo

Yahoo just took its war of lawsuits with Facebook to the next level, adding two more patent-infringement claims to the 10 it filed for back in March.

The company also accused Facebook of not having a good-faith belief in the counterclaim it filed almost a month ago.

 Here is the rest of the article ;

http://mashable.com/2012/04/27/yahoo-facebook-new-claims/

Facebook Q1 2012 Revenue Up, Net Income Down

Facebook, which is preparing for its initial public offering, posted revenues that continued to increase in the first quarter of 2012, but net income was down compared to the year-ago period.

Facebook posted first quarter 2012 revenues of $1.058 billion, up 45% year over year from $731 million. Net income however was down, at $205 million, from $233 million in the year-ago period.

Facebook’s user base continued to increase, with 901 million monthly active users as of March 31, 2012, up 33% from the year-ago period. Daily active users were 526 million on average in March, up 42% from 372 million a year ago. Facebook users generated an average of 3.2 billion Likes and Comments per day in the first quarter of 2012. On mobile, Facebook had 488 million monthly active users in March.

Threat for the 'Open Web'

In an interview published on sunday, Google's co-founder pointed attacks on the open Internet, including government censorship and interception of data, overzealous attempts to protect intellectual property, and new communication portals that use web technologies and the internet.

Google’s co-founder Brin lists several other threats to the open Web (and to Google):

• Smartphone apps, as led by Apple: "all the information in apps -- that data is not crawlable by Web crawlers. You can't search it."
• Facebook, where data goes in but never comes out: "Facebook has been sucking down Gmail contacts for many years."
• SOPA and PIPA, which Brin says would have led to the U.S. using the same content-screening technology it has criticized China and Iran for using. 

Here is the rest of article;

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/16/tech/web/google-sergey-brin/index.html

Brain Drain of Google

Brain Drain, is also known as “The human capital flight”. It can be simply defined as the mass emigration of technically skilled people from one country to another country or one company to another.

Brightest people always choose to be at the side of innovation companies. When tech companies reorganizes or restructures because of loosing innovation power, smart people starts to escape to other bright companies. For example in 2010 Google wore off and lost its top skilled people. Despite of raising salaries and buying some new companies, brain drain of Google still continued. Here some articles of Harvard Business Review and others about Google brain drain.

http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor/2010/11/getting_smarter_about_googles.html
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/06/28/google-brain-drain-continues-nirvanix-lands-a-new-cto/

Facebook acqusition of Instagram, a question mark for Facebook ; Next address of brain drain wave is Facebook?

Facebook Acquires Instagram

Facebook has acquired Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock.Instagram is a mobile photo sharing app. It grew from 1 million users in January 2011 to 15 million in December 2011. It has 30 million users now.

Mark Zuckerberg just announced the news on Facebook "I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook"

And an interesting article about facebook acqusition.

http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/here-is-why-did-facebook-bought-instagram/

Glass Wearable Computing :Google Innovation or Marketing?

Everywhere, Google's wearable glass project is one of the hot topic nowadays. Google announced an innovative project. A question; Is it really an innovative project or just marketing news, as we used to see in Microsoft projects?

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/4/4/google-shows-off-project-glass-wearable-computing.aspx 

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/epicenter-google-glass-ar

Apple and Labor Issues

Last month I shared my opinions about Apple and cheap labor matters in my blog. That news shows us for in coming months, Apple will have a headache about labor matters.

Apple and one of its top suppliers, Hon Hai Precision agreed to a set of recommendations by the Fair Labor Association to reduce work hours and change other employment policies. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304177104577313393458215040.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_Europe_LeftTopNews

And another article about Apple and labor issues. A day after Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, toured a Chinese factory where the company’s products are made, an audit commissioned by Apple criticized the long hours and dangerous working conditions at plants run by Foxconn, the operator of the factory Mr. Cook visited last week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/technology/apple-presses-its-suppliers-to-improve-conditions.html?_r=1&ref=technology