{"id":18,"date":"2009-02-12T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-04-15T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:34:48","slug":"facebook-pay-up-in-case-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/facebook-pay-up-in-case-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook pay up in case settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Guardian, Facebook have paid up to $65m &#8211; $20m cash and a 1.25m shares \u2013 to end a lawsuit in which Mark Zuckerberg, now its chief executive, was accused of stealing the idea for the social networking site from a company called ConnectU.<\/p>\n<p>The case, brought against Zuckerberg by three former classmates, Divya Narendra and the brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, had threatened to derail Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story <strong>click here to read the Guardian article<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/feb\/12\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-ex-classmates\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Guardian, Facebook have paid up to $65m &#8211; $20m cash and a 1.25m shares \u2013 to end a lawsuit in which Mark Zuckerberg, now its chief executive, was accused of stealing the idea for the social networking site from a company called ConnectU. The case, brought against Zuckerberg by three former classmates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}