Facebook Patent Could Mean Lawsuits

CNN.com, CNN
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 7:24am

Facebook this week was awarded a patent pertaining to streaming "feed" technology -- more specifically, "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network," complementing another patent filing that has been published but not yet approved.

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