However on tech news aggregator YCombinator the reaction was broad and delicious.
"I was amazed on Sunday to read that Facebook is blatantly stealing our idea with what they are calling, 'Find Friends Nearby, '" Friendthem CEO Charles Sankowich said in a statement posted on VentureBeat and on other tech news sites.
In a week when tech vendors traditionally go on a news hiatus, the people who actually do big data came to the fore.
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So Garber quickly agreed to swap a 33% stake in Vignette for rights to code developed by CNET, the tech-news site, which served up data on an individualized basis.
In the tech sector, Yahoo continued to rally on news that private equity investors were meeting the board.
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Knoll explains that at the height of the tech bubble investors bid up the shares on the news that Pearl had become involved with a company that patented what became a standard for Web browsers.
P. news comes on the heels of another California tech giant, Yahoo, detailing plans of huge layoffs last month.
However, tech news site Ars Technica pointed out that Valve has a patent on a controller with swappable parts.
The good news is that that you can dip your toe into tech on your own time before making a full-on commitment.
There was no news on what the manufacturer will call the new display tech, further specifications, or even whether this was just a proof of concept -- the device was chilling in the corner of the electronics giant's innovation gallery.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which campaigns on digital issues, said in an email to Tech News Daily it should be up to the courts not the government to decide to what the DMCA applies.
Abraham, a tech writer lay in his apartment in Chinatown, following the news about the storm on Twitter.
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The site came to the public's attention on Sunday after news of the feature was leaked to the tech press, according to news reports.
The "always on" nature of home bothered industry watcher Om Malik from tech news website GigaOm who said it could be a route to gathering data about users that would otherwise be hard to find.
Besides being bullish on tech bellwethers like Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) and Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), Gurian also says to buy integrated circuit maker Linear Technology (nasdaq: LLTC - news - people ) and publishing software company Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ).
To help provide easily searchable information on this timely topic, my tech trade association has launched a new website, Patent Progress, to be an online resource on high tech patent issues with copies of filings as well as breaking news and commentary.
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Looking at fundamentals, Randy Williams-Gurian of Seattle-based Tech Stock Insights has become extremely bullish on Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ).
This is plainly horrible news, both on a purely human level, and for anyone who cares about tech, design, and Apple.
News about an innovative idea from the logistics company DHL has just broken on the stateside tech blogs.
They say the tech industry is recovering and that IT spending is on the rise, but it's not all good news for the guys in the server room.
In other green tech news, 3Doodler launched the world's first 3D-printing pen and a group of teens are working on turning mosquitos into "flying syringes" to deliver vaccines to humans.
Separately, Banc of America Securities moved EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) into the top slot of its tech picks, one spot ahead of IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), jumping on the current valuation following a 19% drop in the data storage company's share price since March.
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