Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have to say much for people to get excited. Yesterday, the Facebook founder announced that his company would begin offering video chat capabilities through a partnership with Skype, the Internet video phone service. Zuckerberg also announced that users of the site will additionally see some changes to the standard chat function, which will now allow for group chats. READ MORE
Wait for it…Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will be launching, “something awesome” next week. The statement was just vague enough to pique our interest and have the blogosphere buzzing in a game of Twenty Questions about the new feature (Is it bigger than a breadbox? Animal, vegetable, or mineral?). READ MORE
Targeting the nation’s youth, technophiles, and Silicon Valley heads, The White House has arranged another social media town hall meeting. According to BetaBeat, President Obama will hold his first-ever Twitter town hall on July 6 at 2 p.m., the White House fittingly announced today on Twitter. READ MORE
Like twin Energizer Bunnies of litigation, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss keep going, and going, and going. Just one day after it was announced that the pair and Divya Narandra would not take their fight with Facebook to the Supreme Court (instead abiding by the ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upholds the trio’s original agreement with Mark Zuckerberg), all three told a federal court in Massachusetts that they will go after separate claims alleging Facebook suppressed evidence during the original round of settlement talks, in 2008. READ MORE
The Winklevoss twins, who sued Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their ConnectU idea to launch Facebook, have decided not to take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narandra will abide by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling to let their initial agreement with Zuckerberg stand. READ MORE
Facebook may be experiencing traffic drops in North America, but globally, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network is attracting more visitors than ever before. READ MORE
Nearly five years after they filed for it, Facebook has finally won the patent for their landmark concept of photo tagging. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent that now protects the concept, which famously allows users to associate people in photos and videos. READ MORE
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the relentless accusers of Mark Zuckerberg, are planning to appeal the Ninth Court of Appeals decision all the way to the Supreme Court. The “Winklevii,” as Mashable puts its, contend that they were “defrauded by Facebook and Zuckerberg and that Facebook committed securities fraud during the mediation that resulted in the 2008 settlement.” So is there any chance the Supreme Court will grant the two former Harvard crew brothers a spot on the docket? READ MORE
Still flirting with the idea of an IPO, Skype may enter courtships with two of the technology world’s biggest suitors, Facebook and Google. Reuters broke the story yesterday that both Facebook and Google are considering deals with the web video-conferencing service based on two unnamed sources. One source confirmed the two companies’ discussions of a joint venture with Skype; the other confirmed that Facebook’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been involved in internal conversations about such a deal. READ MORE
Facebook’s next conquest may be China. There are rumors that the social network is considering launching its site in the authoritarian state. There’s no easy way to do this, and since there’s no perfect time to develop an open-communication social network in China, sources say Facebook is diving in head first. READ MORE
