Steve Jobs Threatened Patent Litigation To Enforce ‘No-Hire’ Agreements

Steve Jobs shakes hands with Eric Schmidt.

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm CEO Edward Colligan with patent litigation if he did not agree to stop poaching Apple employees, according to a court filing that was made public on Tuesday.

Confidential emails between the pair, along with documents from Adobe and Google, have surfaced in a civil lawsuit that claims a number of major companies in Silicon Valley violated antitrust rules by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees. Five employees are now fighting for class action status and damages for lost wages as a result of the “no-hire” agreements.

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Popular Personal Finance App Mint.com Updated To Support Honeycomb Tablets

Mint.com is one of the most popular free personal finance apps on Android and includes some great features for managing your money. While millions have been happily enjoying the app on their Android smartphones, it’s about time Intuit showed tablet users some love. Today is that day, and if you head over to the Android Market, you’ll notice Mint.com has been updated. Not only does it now include support for Honeycomb tablets, but they’ve also added a few new features such as:

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