EA and Zynga Quietly Resolve Copyright Dispute Out of Court

Terms of the settlement are confidential, so it’s unclear exactly how the two companies resolved their differences.
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Facebook Wants to Beef Up Design Talent in NYC Office

Facebook is actively seeking designers to work in its midtown Manhattan office, the company announced Monday. Most of Facebook’s 90-member design team is housed in its Menlo Park, Calif., office, though the company aims to recruit enough talent to work specifically out of the 150-person East Coast office. The team will work in conjunction with the advertising sales team to make sure monetized products look pretty on the Facebook platform, which makes sense, considering much of the industry’s ad sales activity is out East.

Confirmed: Chris Dixon Becomes Seventh Investing GP at Andreessen Horowitz

So it is written, so it shall be done.
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U.S. Sues eBay Over Recruiting Pact With Intuit

EBay Inc. said it will fight a Department of Justice lawsuit that alleges that the Internet retailer and financial software provider Intuit Inc. had signed an illegal agreement restricting the companies’ ability to actively recruit employees from one another.

LinkedIn’s Banner Q3 Blows Past Street Consensus

The professional social network beats, big time.
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Mapping Silicon Valley’s Own Private “iWay”

A San Francisco design firm maps the hidden transit system of the tech elite.
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Oracle Picks SelectMinds to Beef Up Its Headhunting Game

Enterprise giant Oracle announced Monday that it will acquire SelectMinds, a social networking company that has found its niche with corporate recruiters. It’s another deal in step with a string of 2012 acquisitions for Oracle, a company that has never been afraid to acquire outside talent and technology. Along the same lines, Oracle closed a nearly $2 billion deal to acquire Taleo — another company focused on the business of headhunting — in February. Terms of the SelectMinds deal were not disclosed.

The ZuckerBump: Facebook Shares Climb After Founder Takes the Stage

Wall Street Likes this.
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Khosla Ventures Hires Ex-Yahoo Mojgan Khalili as Comms Partner

Every time a fund is raised, a new marketing VC gets wings.
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Longtime HR Head David Windley Out

Wanted: New talent-finding exec. Requirements: Never worked at Yahoo.
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