When Facebook copied Snapchat in 2016

Facebook has been busy trying to out smart Snapchat in every way possible since the time Snapchat rejected Facebook's offer of  $3 Billion .Snapchat is still a very small company compared  to Facebook but it has its own thing going. Snapchat rolled over many new features and even "Spectacles". Snapchat has a constant growth, it's parent company may file for IPO next year.

Here are all the things Facebook copied from snapchat
http://www.businessinsider.in/here-are-all-the-times-facebook-copied-snapchat-in-2016/articleshow/56170772.cms?format=slideshow

PayPal alleges that PayTm copied it's logo

PayPal has filed a case against Paytm for alleged trademark infringement.

The logo might look different but the colors used are more or less the same. As both the entities are in the same industry i.e payments the case would be treated with more attention and detail.

The recent rise of Paytm due to demonetization in India, would have been the cause for the case filed by the California company PayPal which was initially founded by Elon Musk and later sold. PayPal was one of the initial pioneers of the online payment industry and payment wallets mainly.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/paypal-files-case-against-paytm-for-alleged-trademark-infringement/article9430703.ece

 

Cisco claims Arista copied it's Command Line Interface (CLI)

Arista has won the battle over  Cisco's infringement accusation.


In Cisco's blog it has said that

"By contrast, the extent of Arista’s copying of our CLI sets them apart from others in the industry. They have directly lifted more than 500 multi-word command line expressions. By comparison, networking products from HP, Brocade, Alcatel-Lucent, Juniper Networks and Extreme each have only a small fraction of overlapping commands."

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Amazon Go was forseen by IBM?

Here is a commercial by IBM on the future of shopping which was aired 10 years ago. While today Amazon announced

Amazon Go

which enables user to pick goods off the shelf and walkout of the store without standing in the checkout line.


IBM RFID commercial

Amazon Go

How the Tech works: The tech in Amazon Go uses Deep Learning and RFID and few other key technologies at start the user uses the app provided to identify himself with the store and then goes on about picking the goods/items he needs, the items picked by the customer and gets added  to the virtual cart. Once the customer exits the store the cart gets checked out and the customer is charged accordingly. More Details

Micromax logo & Pewdipie

PewDiePie ( PewDiePie, is a Swedish web-based comedian and producer, best known for his Let's Play commentaries and vlogs on YouTube)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie

Micromax (Micromax is an Indian consumer electronics company headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromax_Informatics

Micromax's Logo was redesigned during may 2012 and PewDiePie came up around 2013

LinkedIN copies Facebook

The competition between LinkedIn and Facebook has being going around for a while now. It just got a lil intense now as LinkedIn introduced the notification feature just like the one on FB. Other than that many features like like, comment, share etc are in LinkedIn. It now looks much like FB

Screenshot via LinkedIn

Google stole Android Logo from Gauntlet (game)

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter is an arcade-style action game by Atari, that was released on the short-lived Atari Lynx handheld in 1990. The game has a character named Android (in the pic).

Google copies Yahoo!

When IE7 launched, Yahoo! created a customized version and began to market it to existing IE users. The page looked like this:





Google has basically copied the page as you can see the look, the design, layout, and most of the text are the same!



Source:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008122.html