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Facebook Sued Over Timeline

Chinese company claims Facebook stole the feature

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 12:14 PM


Timeline, Facebook's new-look profile which allows people to tell the story of their lives on a single page, has just been made mandatory for British Facebook users.

Cubic Network, a four year-old Chinese technology company, which operates a network not to dissimilar to Pinterest, (an American company which allows people to share their favourite items on a virtual pinboard), claims Facebook stole the feature.

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