Written by The previous company of Trademarkia CEO Raj Abhyanker was sold to Google, Inc. earlier this week. The company is the Dealmap (a DBA of CenterD, Inc., renamed from Fatdoor, Inc.). According to reports on the web, the company was sold for a reported $30M. The sale was reported in articles of TechCrunch and the New York Times. [...]
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F the Facebook map pin?
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The tantalizing icon that you see on Facebook inviting you to “check in” at your current location has been applied for as a trademark by Facebook this month. According to the USPTO, On Wednesday, November 03, 2010, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for “F”. The mark consists of a design of a pink [...]
READ MORE »October 2010 The Trademarkia Times Newsletter – To Tweet Or Not To Tweet, There Is No Question
Please take 5 minutes out of your day to fill out our Customer Questionnaire. Subscribe to the Trademarkia newsletter. —————————————————————————————– Letter from the Trademarkia Team: We Want Your Business to Succeed! Small businesses contribute more than 60% of jobs in the US and have been called “the engine of job creation” by President Obama. We, at Trademarkia, want [...]
READ MORE »Is the USPTO an “enemy” for Facebook?
Throughout the movie, “The Social Network” (which is the movie based on Facebook that opened on October 1), the college-aged Mark Zuckerberg character eschews the idea of Facebook advertisements. In the movie, Zuckerberg’s focus is on getting people to use the site and thinking that it is cool. At one point, he compares ads on [...]
READ MORE »Apple: Ping = Facebook + Twitter for Music
No longer does Facebook dominate the social media scene, Apple’s Ping is already automatically available to 160 million Itunes Users. Apple stepped into the social media game before when they launched a music-centered social network at iTunes and unveiled a slick new iPod and Apple TV gadgets. Apple’s chief executive, Steve Jobs describes the new [...]
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