Everyone Wants a Piece...of Facebook
First it was the rakish Winklevoss twins, suing Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for purportedly making off with intellectual property from their startup, ConnectU. (Last year, after a protracted battle, the brothers squeezed a $65 million cash and stock settlement out of the social networking giant.) Now, an old business associate of the Winklevoss bros is coming after his own piece of their windfall settlement, reports CNet’s Caroline McCarthy. According to a December 21 court complaint, programming whiz Wayne Chang states that he retains a 15% stake in the Winklevoss’s now-defunct company, and he wants to see some money.
4 January 2010•2 mins read
