CollegeBrain

Sep 2, 2011

—  Rising Web stars such as Facebook and Twitter have so far been spared in the patent wars, but that could change  —  Paul Maritz has witnessed a number of patent skirmishes. The chief executive officer of VMware spent 14 years at Microsoft …    About Techmeme:  At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Our goal is to become your tech news site of record. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm extended with direct human editorial input. Our human editors are: Lidija Davis , Mahendra Palsule , Andre Garrigo , David Connell , Jarrod Cugley ,and occasionally Omer Horvitz and Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera .Launched in 2005, Techmeme remains independent, bootstrapped, and privately held.