Last January someone registered the domain VinePorn.com, yesterday Vine banned porn on their service, today VinePorn.com sold for $9,900 on Sedo. Vine posted: A change to Vine content rules We introduced Vine to make it easier for people to find, watch, create and share videos right from their mobile phones. As we’ve watched the community and your creativity grow and evolve, we’ve found … [Read more...]
Is @jamesdean Twitter handle violating trademark law ?
Its not just domain names where people seem to make a stretch with regards to trademarks. Wendy Davis wrote a piece a few hours ago on MediaPost about Twitter and James Dean. From the article: The licensing agency CMG Worldwide has sued Twitter for allowing a user to tweet under the name of deceased actor James Dean. CMG alleges that Twitter -- as well as the account creator -- are … [Read more...]
Twitter Reports Earnings First Time as a Public Company – Stock Down in After Hours Trading
Today is the first earnings report from Twitter as a public company. They exceeded expectations as they were actually expected to lose about .02 a share and made .02 a share. From Tech Crunch After the bell this afternoon, Twitter reported its maiden earnings as a public company, with fourth quarter revenue of $242.7 million and earnings per share of $0.02. Analysts had expected Twitter to … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Owns it Role in the Twitter @N Case – Paypal Does Not
Go Daddy admits that it was at fault in the @N case. Paypal denied any fault. ItWorld covered the story that has been going on for a few days with regards to Naoki Hiroshima, his Twitter handle @N and his Go Daddy account. The story has been covered inside the domain world and out and now comes an acknowledgement from Go Daddy and a denial from Paypal. — GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of … [Read more...]