Infobox Dotcom company company name StudiVZ company logo company type Private company Private foundation ... about us 1 studiVZ ber uns Bot generated title ref July 2009 company slogan url URL http www.studivz.net ... advertising registration required launch date November 2005 current status active footnotes intl StudiVZ ... to List of social networking sites other social networking sites . StudiVZ claims to be one of the biggest ... 2007, StudiVZ was sold to one of its investors, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a German group ... for non students called meinVZ was launched. Features StudiVZ provides several features for its members ..., age, study subjects, interests, courses and group memberships within StudiVZ. They have the option ... organized in groups within StudiVZ. These groups have their own pages and a discussion forum open to group members. Additionally, StudiVZ provides a private messaging service for its members, including ... SpiegelInternational Alex Bakst, StudiVZ Takes on Facebook , 2006. http www.spiegel.de international ... de icon Richard Meusers, Peinliche Pannen bringen StudiVZ in Verruf , 2006. http www.spiegel.de ..., a CAPTCHA has to be entered to view search results. In early November 2006, StudiVZ gained .... ref StudiVZ Short Summary in English , 2006. http blog.ins.de Aktuell studivz english short summary.html ref Some blog gers have also published critical accounts ref StudiVZ Encyclopedia the most complete summary until now , 2006. http www.karsten wenzlaff.de 2006 11 20 studivz encyclopedia .... ref de icon Torsten Kleinz, StudiVZ Umstrittener Gr nder scheidet aus Gesch ftsf hrung aus , 2007. http www.heise.de newsticker meldung 86598 ref In February 2007, hackers broke into StudiVZ and stole ... members had to be reset. ref de icon Torsten Kleinz, Daten Gau bei StudiVZ , 2007. http www.focus.de digital internet online community nid 45470.html ref In August 2007, studiVZ was criticized for the provocative ... Frickel, StudiVZ provoziert mit Ekelvideos , 2007. http www.focus.de digital internet internet ... more details
Infobox United States District Court Case name Facebook, Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd. court United States District .... v. StudiVZ Ltd. date decided September 10, 2009 citations http docs.justia.com cases federal district ... , Trade dress , Trademark law , venue law venue Facebook, Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd. , was a federal lawsuit ... of California against StudiVZStudiVZ Ltd. , a UK company with its principal place of business in Germany. StudiVZ had launched a website which was alleged to be visually and functionally similar ... held that StudiVZ did not violate any intellectual property rights held by Facebook. Facts and procedural ..., Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd. , No. 08 03468 N.D. Cal. Jul. 18, 2008 http docs.justia.com cases federal district ... , Inside Tech Crunch.com Sep 25, 2008 . ref In October 2005 StudiVZ launched its website by two students from Berlin , Ehssan Dariani and Dennis Bemmann. StudiVZ is an abbreviation of the German ... StudiVZ became popular in Germany and subsequently launched several other websites designed to target ... learned of StudiVZ s website and, believing that the StudiVZ website infringed its proprietary trade dress , Facebook sent a demand letter to StudiVZ . The letter alleged a series of potential claims ... in January 2007. ref name deferring Facebook, Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd. , No. 08 03468, 2009 U.S. ... that StudiVZ copied the look, feel, features and services of Facebook.com. ref name complaint In August 2006 and October 2007 Facebook began negotiations to purchase StudiVZ s websites. ref name Buy ... tried to buy StudiVZ ,Inside News.cnet.com Aug. 8, 2008 . ref After the negotiations failed, Facebook sent demand letters to Holtzbrinck Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, that acquired StudiVZ in 2007 ... StudiVZ filed a declaratory judgment action against Facebook in the German regional court of Stuttgart ... . ref The same day, Facebook filed a complaint against StudiVZ Ltd., Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck ... StudiVZ desist from running a knock off of Facebook s website. ref name Stuttgartclaim and filed motions ... more details
Infobox Software name GMX Multimessenger logo screenshot caption author developer United Internet and GMX Mail released November 2006 latest release version 3.0 latest release date release date and age 2008 09 03 latest preview version latest preview date programming language XML , JavaScript , CSS operating system Microsoft Windows Windows platform language status genre Instant messaging Client computing client license Proprietary software Proprietary website http service.gmx.net de cgi g.fcgi products messenger GMX GMX Multi Messenger is an instant messanger software and application launched by the Germany German webmail provider GMX Mail in November, 2006 . GMX is a subsidiary if United Internet , a company that also owns the webmailer Web.de , which offers the same instant messanger client with their own branding. Features Other im providers such as AIM , Live Messenger and ICQ can be integrated with this software Messaging with emoticon capability Various skins Integration with social networking sites such as MySpace and StudiVZ . External links http service.gmx.net de cgi g.fcgi products messenger GMX Messanger http www.produkte.web.de messenger Web.de Messanger DEFAULTSORT Gmx Multi Messenger Category Instant messaging de GMX Web.de Multimessenger ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Alexander Samwer born 1975, Koln ref name jetzt Cite news url http jetzt.sueddeutsche.de texte anzeigen 210272 title Young German start ups date 12 December 2005 work Jetzt accessdate 30 January 2010 ref is a German people German entrepreneur who founded Alando and Jamba . ref name bio Cite web url http www.europeanfounders.com business angels alexander samwer.html title Alexander s bio work European Founders accessdate 30 January 2010 ref Career With his brothers Marc and Oliver he co founded Alando company Alando , which was sold to eBay in 1999 for 50 million, ref Cite news url http www.heise.de newsticker meldung EBay kauft Berliner Web Auktionshaus Alando 17561.html title EBay kauft Berliner Web Auktionshaus Alando date 21 June 1999 work Heise language German accessdate 30 January 2010 ref then Jamba which was sold to VeriSign in for 270 million in 2004. ref Cite news url http www.spiegel.de international business 0,1518,528828,00.html title Samwer Brothers Acquire Stake in Facebook date 15 January 2008 work Spiegel accessdate 30 January 2010 ref With his brothers he founded the venture capital company European Founders Fund ref name bio ref Cite news url http www.highbeam.com doc 1P1 131908263.html title German brothers break the moldEntrepreneurs cash in after learning fast in Silicon Valley last Crampton first Thomas date 4 December 2006 work International Herald Tribune accessdate 31 January 2010 ref with which they invested in Lokalisten , StudiVZ German counterpart to Facebook , MyVideo German counterpart to YouTube , Anshe Chung Studios and several other companies. They invested in Facebook in 2008, after selling StudiVZ to the Holtzbrinck Group . ref Cite news last St cker first Christian url http www.spiegel.de international business 0,1518,529058,00.html title SPIEGEL Interview with Investor Alexander Samwer Facebook Is Already Light Years Ahead date 16 January 2008 work Spiegel accessdate 30 January 2010 ref Education He stu ... more details
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File Die zeit 1s.jpg thumb right 200px German newspaper Die Zeit in newsstand File Sci am mar 2005.jpg thumb right 188px Issue of Scientific American Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie s The Satanic Verses Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie , Jean Paul Sartre , Ernest Hemingway and John Updike . Amongst its well known international publications are Nature magazine Nature and Scientific American . History Established by Georg von Holtzbrinck in 1948, the group first began as a German Book sales club book club . In the 1960s, it purchased Droemer, Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag , two German publishing companies. In 1985, it acquired the retail book division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston , naming it the Henry Holt Book Company . One year later, the company acquired Scientific American magazine for 52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a majority interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, Jr. A year later, it purchased a 70 majority interest in The Macmillan Group , and then the remaining shares in 1999. In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books , which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as E book eBooks via Webscriptions because of concerns regarding the lack of Digital rights management digital rights management DRM . These concerns abated in 2007 and selected Tor titles will soon be available as e books via Baen and a variety of other online retailers. The company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the leading German social networking platform StudiVZ in January 2007. Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros as of 2005 49 of sales are in Germany and 23 in North America. It had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros, and a total of 14,000 employees. Chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck. John Turner Sar ... more details
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