Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Twitter are four of the most important startups of the past few years, so their patent portfolios are worth monitoring. How many patents do these four companies have? This morning, the popular Twitterer @counternotions made the following inaccurate tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/counternotions/status
Square, the mobile payments startup was founded in May 2010 by Jack Dorsey and James McKelvey. The company makes it easy for individuals and small businesses to accept credit card payments by providing a mobile app and card reader for various mobile operating systems. Though mobile payments is a crowded space with heavyweights such as PayPal [&hellip
Social Networking patents always seem to stir up controversy. One of the most successful social networking portfolios was the Friendster portfolio, which was bought by Facebook last year for almost 40 million dollars. With that in mind, I wanted to take a look at what other early social networking portfolios are out there. As is [&hellip
Glympse, a location sharing startup, allows contacts to share their geographic location with each other for a preset period of time. The company was started in 2008 by Microsoft alums Bryan Trussel and Steve Miller. Th Glympse App is available for Android, iPhone, WinPhone7 and Blackberry. With the recent release of Apple’s iOS5, Apple introduced [&hellip
Siri can no longer be considered a startup since it is now part of Apple. However, not long ago, Siri was one of the most exciting young companies participating in the Apple app store. By now, everyone is eagerly anticipating Apple’s new Siri personal assistant in the and about to be released iPhone 4s. It [&hellip
Twitter is arguably one of today’s hottest companies. In its early days, Twitter suffered from frequent outages due to spikes in demand. However, these problems appear to be well in the rearview mirror. The company launched in July 2006 and so it would be expected that within the past five years Twitter has amassed an [&hellip