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- Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has won a legal battle against the Winklevoss twins who accuse him of stealing their idea.
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Apr 5, 2022 · Mark Zuckerberg was accused of stealing the idea for Facebook from ConnectU.com, which involved three classmates and clients who wanted a social website for Harvard students. After a lengthy legal battle that lasted years, Facebook ended up paying Zuckerberg’s ex-classmates $65 million between the three affected students.
The Winklevoss twins believed Zuckerberg had wronged them in 2004 by stealing their idea for what became Facebook, had wronged them a second time by deep-sixing the damaging I.M.s during ...
Apr 12, 2011 · Despite a film that some said unfairly slammed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Winklevoss twins have lost in court--and in the public opinion. Here's why.
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Feb 10, 2009 · The lawsuit, originally filed in 2004, claims that Zuckerberg stole the idea, the source code and the business plan for Facebook in 2003 while working as a programmer for three former Harvard students, who were developing their own social networking site, now called ConnectU.com.
Mar 5, 2012 · Eamon Javers. Published 3:55 PM ET Mon, 5 March 2012 CNBC.com. The chairman of a company locked in a court battle with Facebook alleged Monday that as a young Harvard student Facebook founder...
Feb 12, 2009 · Its owners alleged that Zuckerberg, who helped set up Facebook, stole the idea, technology, design and business plan while they were students at Harvard.
Jan 31, 2011 · Mark Zuckerberg didn’t come up with the idea for an online social network, register the domain Facebook.com and collect a few billion dollars. Thomas Edison didn’t come up with the idea of stringing electrical wire in a vacuum, throw a light bulb together in an afternoon, and then enjoy his empire.
