Facebook settles ConnectU case

The assurance came after a federal judge in San Jose endorsed a hand-written settlement signed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his ConnectU accusers during court-ordered mediation on 22 February. According to a report on the IoL site, US District Court Judge James Warren rejected a bid by ConnectU lawyers to nullify the agreement and said the settlement deal was a binding legal document. ConnectU creators Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claimed that they enlisted Zuckerberg to finish software code for their social-networking Web site while they were all students at Harvard in 2003. Zuckerberg, a second year student at the time, took their code and their idea and launched Facebook in 2004 instead of holding up his end of the deal, according to ConnectU's lawsuit. Full report on the IoL site