David Filo

You may not know this but Yahoo still operates a product called Yahoo Small Business, which provides SMBs and sites with web hosting, domain name registration, web site design templates, e-commerce solutions and more. In fact, Yahoo says that it has help Full Article at TechCrunch

Facebook had a choice to make: pay off Yahoo with gobs of money and remain vulnerable to other patent trolls, or make a long-term investment into an intellectual property portfolio it could protect itself with for years to come. Facebook wisely took the Full Article at TechCrunch

Yahoo today reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, and after three years of declining annual revenue numbers, the company looks like it may just be on track to stop the streak — or at least slow it down. Yahoo reported first quarte Full Article at TechCrunch

One would guess that the big Yahoo layoff-reorganization includes a culling of some the company’s weaker properties — and yes, we’re hearing today that this includes Music and possibly Movies, popular sites that don’t monetize well. Word has been leaking Full Article at TechCrunch

Facebook has executed a masterful response to Yahoo’s patent trolling that protects it legally but still makes it look like the victim. Here I examine how for almost every patent Yahoo claims Facebook infringes upon, the social network has countersued wi Full Article at TechCrunch

Today, the activity continues, as Yahoo has announced that it is appointing three new independent board directors, whose roles become effective on April 5th. This is all in spite of the fact that Dan Loeb and Third Point have been trying to drum up share Full Article at TechCrunch

Started originally as a ridesharing service, then pivoting to become a document uploading and reading service, Scribd now has 100 million registered users, with 90 million monthly active users. That makes it probably the biggest effort of its kind, but l Full Article at TechCrunch

If the other patents are ruled invalid for being too broad to enforce, it’s maybe this Patent 7406501 that could stick. Facebook could need a separate defense or answer to this complaint, or it could be forced into a settlement to close the case prior it Full Article at TechCrunch

So today we reached out to Gill to get his insights on the Yahoo/Facebook patent situation, now that things have finally started to come to a head. He was working at a conference in Washington DC, but we were able to catch him for a Skype interview from Full Article at TechCrunch