
Canadian communications outfit Mitel Networks is suing Facebook for patent-infringement regarding “proactive features for telephony” and an “automatic web page generator.”

Canadian communications outfit Mitel Networks is suing Facebook for patent-infringement regarding “proactive features for telephony” and an “automatic web page generator.”

Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court of Northern California, San Francisco, was appointed to Yahoo’s patent infringement case against Facebook.

Yahoo isn’t making any friends by suing Facebook over 10 alleged patent infringements.

Yahoo is charging ahead with a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.

Yahoo surprised Facebook with a host of patent-infringement allegations Monday, covering areas including advertising, website personalization, social network, and messaging, and apparently stating its case to The New York Times at the same time, giving the social network little time to respond.

Continuing to demand the technically impossible, a court in India issued another threat against Facebook, threatening to block the social network and other websites, including Google, if “offensive and objectionable” content is not removed.

We highly doubt this particular rumor would ever come true, but the blogosphere and Twitterverse are chattering that Facebook could pull the plug in protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act pending in the U.S. Congress.

Facebook and seven major online companies have endorsed an alternative online piracy bill that they believe would keep the Internet open and foster innovation.

Thiago Barrella of Yahoo Brazil, tells us about how he manages the brand’s Facebook page.

Zynga’s newest game has already set a record in its first week, growing faster than any other application has during its first week on Facebook.