The long-standing legal spat between RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) over a mobile messaging partnership the two companies brokered back in 2001 has been resolved — and not in the way that was originally expected. According to a newly-filed 8K, the original arbitration ruling in VeriSign’s favor has been overturned, with the arbitrator concluding that “RealNetworks is not responsible for any damages to VeriSign.”
RealNetworks lost the original hearing regarding the deal back in July; that outcome meant the company might have ultimately been required to pay damages to VeriSign for “tortuously interfering” with VeriSign’s attempts to sell its mobile messaging business.
The new ruling reverses the previous one, dismissing “VeriSign’s related tortious interference claims” — finding that VeriSign “failed to prove” that RealNetworks’ conduct in advance of VeriSign’s sales attempts caused “any measurable damages.” We’ve contacted VeriSign for comment, but have not yet received feedback.
I fully admit that I don’t really get this whole Web 2.0 thing, so can someone who does please explain the value of including 4 automatic backtype posts above in the comments of this article? I see this sort of thing all over the place, whether it’s twitter or reposts on other blogs, and it just looks like useless noise to me. I’m already here…why do I care that other people were pointing to here from somewhere else?
At least that’s how it looks to my Web 1.0 mind. I’m probably missing something revolutionary that’s changing our historic mode of communication and improving our democracy.
When we’re done here, I’d also like an explanation of why people keep saying “after the jump” in the middle of an article I’m reading that’s all on one page and doesn’t seem to jump anywhere.
Erik, I can comment regarding the Reactions stuff. First it should be showing below the comments if it isn’t for you I’d like to know so I can investigate. Also we are currently talking to Disqus to see if we can filter out our own company and personal accounts so it only shows what will hopefully be more relevant reactions.
Trackbacks/Reactions aren’t actually Web 2.0 they were around pretty early in the blog world but we didn’t use them before because they were too commonly filled with only spam. Disqus allows us to provide them with filtering capabilities normal trackbacks don’t have.
I think the value is that it can be interesting to see what other people’s take is on something as they have the ability to not just link to the article but also provide their opinion in the link.