The lawsuit filed on Monday by Yahoo against Facebook over alleged infringements of certain “method” patents was a high profile step for Yahoo to take in the lead-up to Facebook’s IPO… Tweet This Post

Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today—claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company points to ten patents that it says cover features like messages, advertising and privacy settings… Tweet This Post

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has reportedly made good on its threat of last month and filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The lawsuit adds to the growing intellectual property car wreck that is marring Silicon Valley and suggests that Yahoo is following the path of companies like Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Kodak which made patent [...]

Yahoo has seen some fairly big shakeups within the company recently, and it looks like it’s now also trying another change in tactics. As AllThingsD reports, Yahoo has today filed what’s being described as a “massive” patent infringement lawsuit against none other than Facebook… Tweet This Post

Let the shake down begin. Yahoo filed suit in a San Jose court Monday against Facebook, alleging the social networking company is guilty of past and ongoing patent infringement. The lawsuit (seen below), which cites ten different Yahoo patents, claims that without “Yahoo’s achievements, websites such as Facebook would not enjoy repeat visitors or substantial [...]

Continuing its aggressive expansion into video content as it restructures its operations, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has signed a development deal with former Disney (NYSE: DIS) chief Michael Eisner’s Vuguru production company to create multiple scripted series for the Yahoo Screen video portal… Tweet This Post

New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including more direct customer payments. “Yahoo has 700 million users each month,” Yahoo’s EMEA SVP and MD Rich Riley told the FT Digital Media Conference on Wednesday, when asked about direction… Tweet This Post

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues on its push for original video content and A-list talent, with a deal for a new comedy series with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour production shingle. Burning Love, which will be co-produced by a division at Paramount (NYSE: VIA) Pictures specializing in small-budget projects, Insurge Pictures, will be a spoof on syndicated [...]

When news broke this week that Yahoo is accusing Facebook of violating as many as 20 of its patents, it took quite a few people by surprise — but at least one patent expert saw it all coming from a mile away… Tweet This Post

Madison Avenue’s upfront ad markets are the place where TV broadcasters and cable companies sell the bulk of their billions of dollars in commercial time. But this year, the biggest tech companies have a plan to crash that party… Tweet This Post

Yahoo’s once dominant position with display advertising is now officially over. Research firm eMarketer released figures Wednesday showing that both Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) surpassed Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) last year in display-ad revenue, with $1… Tweet This Post

A 26-year-old software development student will spend eight months in jail for hacking Facebook, which his judge said could have been “utterly disastrous” for the company. Glenn Mangham hacked a Facebook employee’s account last spring from his parents’ home in Britain… Tweet This Post