Meta Platforms' Facebook Live and Instagram Live violated patents held by Voxer, a push-to-talk app company founded by a Green Beret, a jury found.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram was ordered to pay nearly $175 million for violating patents held by the maker of a push-to-talk app founded by a former Green Beret who had sought to solve battlefield communications problems he encountered in Afghanistan.
He had reenlisted after 9/11 and was serving as a communications sergeant with the Army Special Forces in 2003 when his unit was ambushed and he faced the shortcomings of existing systems while trying to coordinate medevacs and reinforcements, according to Voxer’s complaint.YouTube announced Tuesday morning a suite of programs aimed at courting and keeping content creators. The elephant in the room: upstart competitor TikTok.
The social media giant then revoked Voxer’s access “to key components of the Facebook platform,” according to court documents. The second also involves transmission of streaming media, “by generating two or more degraded versions of a streaming video message and transmitting an appropriate degraded version to each recipient; and by trans-coding the video media of a video message,” according to the documents.In a quarterly earnings announcement, Meta — the parent of Facebook and Instagram — reported economic struggles. It’s plan to climb back? Copy TikTok.
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