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Saturday 17 December 2011

#Facebook sues Mark Zuckerberg: A new Zuck is here

An interesting read on Mashable. Facebook has threatened to sue one Mark Zuckerberg, an Israeli entrepreneur who recently took the Facebook founder's name. It is said that he changed his name this Dec 7th. 
Heres what i understood.

  • This guy has a startup, Like Store which sells companies, 'likes' to their brand pages. It means say you have a fan page and you need 1000 likes. Pay him and he will get you the required number of likes.
  • Now this is against FB's policy so it has threatened to sue him.
  • FB shuts down his Facebook page. Man says he first filed a lawsuit for shutting down his page.
  • He changes his name legally to Mark Zuckerberg. He puts up pics of his new ID. Plans to even change name of his family members.
  • Even after being asked to shut down his startup he is still operating it so now FB files a lawsuit against this new Zuckerberg, not over the name change but over violation of policy in his startup.
  • Obviously there is no rule which says you cannot sue a guy with the same name but the overall scenario looks funny.
  • So Facebook sues Mark Zuckerberg.

This looks like a publicity stunt for his startup. I think this is totally cheap and i am not tagging his website to this post.


Drive to the original post on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/12/16/facebook-sue-mark-zuckerberg/



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