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Facebook pays $65 million to ConnectU
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Secret agreement leaked
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 15:22
FACEBOOK has paid $65 million to settle a claim that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg nicked his ideas for the social notworking site.
ConnectU, a smaller social network, accidently included the settlement amount Facebook paid its founders in a newsletter and made the confidential settlement public.
Apparently the figure was included by PR bunnies making the newsletter and didn't get caught before it was released.
No one is saying anything now. µ
L'Inq
AP
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I thought Facebook was strapped for cash -- hence selling market research facilities? Now we know why.