Frank Michlick / Domain Name News:
RightHaven.com Taken Down for Invalid Whois — Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant’s domain name.
Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Righthaven Defies Court, Ignores Domain Name Ruling — Last Friday, the Chief Judge of the federal court in Nevada, which is overseeing more than 200 Righthaven copyright cases, dismissed Righthaven’s meritless claim to seize its victim’s domain names. In each case so far …
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facts Should Be Free: SimpleGeo Puts 20 Million Places in the Public Domain — If this week’s Where 2.0 conference is proof of anything, it’s that developers are excited about creating location aware mobile apps. One of the biggest barriers to creating a place-aware app, however, is getting the ball rolling – you need place data.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Page Sharing Service Bo.lt Lets You Copy, Edit And Share Almost Any Webpage — With million in funding from Benchmark Capital, webpage sharing service Bo.lt launches today after about a year in private beta. Like a “Bit.ly on steroids,” the service lets you paste any URL into its copy engine …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Trademark filing, domain names suggest Toshiba’s tablet might be named ‘Thrive’ — Could Toshiba’s nameless Honeycomb tablet finally have a proper name? Thanks to a helpful tipster, we now have our clearest indication yet. Toshiba just filled a trademark application for the name “Thrive” …
Steve Green / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
After Righthaven defies judge, observers question company’s motives — Some Righthaven LLC watchers are wondering if the Las Vegas company is plotting to have the judge handling all of its Colorado copyright lawsuits disqualified from presiding over those cases.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Acquires SocialMedia For Million — Fast growing daily deal service LivingSocial, which just raised 0 million, has acquired long suffering social advertising network SocialMedia, we’ve confirmed. The price was just million, all in LivingSocial stock.
Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Poker Websites Targeted in Federal Crackdown — NEW YORK—Eleven people, including the founders of three of the largest online poker companies doing business in the U.S., have been charged in the latest crack down on Internet gambling by U.S. authorities. — Federal prosecutors …
Steven Levy / Fortune:
Inside Google’s China misfortune — The problems that Google faced while establishing its foothold in China would shake the very foundations of the company and its “Don’t be evil” operating ethos. A look at Google’s past five years in China — and where it went wrong along the way.
MHB / The Domains:
Google Releases Earnings: Revenues Up 27%; Paid Clicks Up 18%; Cost Per Click Up 8%: Domainers Income Still Down — After the Market closed today Google announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2011: — The highlights: — “Google reported revenues of .58 billion …