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Originally posted 2007-03-08 17:44:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
A jury ordered Vonage to pay $58 million in a patent infringement case brought by Verizon. But that’s okay — Vonage already “reported a net loss of $65 million for the last quarter.” It will just pay the damages by making it up in volume.
UPDATE: It gets worse.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
“It will just pay the damages by making it up in volume.” Ah, the dot com business model. Seriously though, any notion how big a hit this is for Vonage– if they’re already losing money mightn’t this send them into bankruptcy? And if so should we care? (I’m leaning towards a no on that last one)
March 11th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070309/wr_nm/vonage_outlook_dc_1