Yahoo sues Facebook alleging that Facebook violated 10 patents

 Sahit Muja: New York

Sahit Muja: Yahoo sues Facebook alleging that Facebook violated 10 patents.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., makes a case that Yahoo innovated on several fronts, including messaging, news feed generation, social commenting advertising display, preventing click fraud and privacy controls.

The Yahoo lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, marks a major escalation of patent litigation that has already swept up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech stalwarts such as Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.

Facebook spokesman Jonathan Thaw said Facebook learned of the lawsuit through the media.
"We're disappointed that Yahoo, a longtime business partner of Facebook and a company that has substantially benefited from its association with Facebook, has decided to resort to litigation," he said.

In an emailed statement, Yahoo said it is confident it will prevail.
"Unfortunately, the matter with Facebook remains unresolved and we are compelled to seek redress in federal court,"  Yahoo said in a statement.

The facebook has revolutionized communications in the world and has a huge potential to commercialise and make huge income from advertisements.
The Internet has changed everything; from the way we communicate to the way we do business.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room and made the facebook among the best value brands in the world's history.
Facebook has enabled for 800 million people to communicate absolutely free of charge.
There are more than 800 million active users.

More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day, and each average user has 130 friends.
Activity on Facebook in 2012

More than 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events, and community pages)
The average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups, and events.
On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day.

Global Reach in 2012: More than 70 languages are available on the site, and approximately 80% of users are outside of the United States.
Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application .

Platform in 2012: On average, people on Facebook install apps more than 20 million times every day.
 Every month, more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience Facebook Platform on other websites .
More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook.

Mobile in 2012: More than 350 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices.
More than 475 mobile operators globally work to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.

Sahit Muja
President and CEO
Albanian Minerals
New York