Facebook Founders Reportedly Fight Over Spotify [Spotify]

By Mat Honan Oct 14, 2011 6:05 PM 14,086 13

The New York Post is reporting that Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake Sean Parker had a boozy sissy fight over whether or not Spotify (a company Parker invests in) should make Facebook a requirement.

The Post says that the pair got in an "alcohol fueled" argument after the Spotify launch, citing an anonymous source:

According to the witness, "Sean argued that all Spotify users should not be forced to sign up for a Facebook account, but Mark wouldn't budge. It was a full on screaming match outside the club, but stopped short at coming to blows. They then stormed off in different directions." The partnership has boosted Spotify subscribers but irked some who don't want their music choices broadcast on Facebook.

The Facebook requirement was a horrible decision for Spotify's users. So if this story is true (and Parker seems to offer some validation that it's at least partially true) it could indicate that Parker and Spotify were forced into the Facebook-required stand by Zuck.

Maybe if they'd all just gotten blunted with Snoop, as Timberlake Parker is wont to do, it never would have happened.

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Apple Investigators Reportedly Impersonated SF Police in iPhone 5 Search (Developing) [Iphone 5]

According to The SF Weekly, Apple investigators looking into the missing iPhone 5 may have been impersonating San Francisco police officers. That's a crime.

The SF Weekly reached Sergio Calderón, who believes he was the person referred to as a suspect in a CNET story claiming that an iPhone 5 was lost in a bar. He tells The SF Weekly that six people with badges claiming to be San Francisco police officers stopped at his home and began asking questions about the missing iPhone 5. At least one of these men was actually an Apple employee.

With Calderón's consent, the six searched his home, car and computer. The SF Weekly also notes that the investigators questioned Calderón and his family's immigration status. He tells the Weekly that at no point did investigators ever claim to be working on behalf of Apple, and he still has no idea who was in his home, or rifling through the files on his computer.

"They threatened me," Calderón told The SF Weekly. "We don't know anything about it, still, to this day."

The San Francisco Police Department told Gizmodo it has no knowledge of the search.

However, The SF Weekly did reach one of them men who searched Calderón's home. Anthony Colon left his contact information with Calderón. The Weekly called him. It turns out Colon is not a member of the San Francisco police department at all. He's a former San Jose cop who now works for Apple. According to his LinkedIn profile he's a senior investigator for Apple. (Colon appears to have taken his LinkedIn profile down. Here's the Google cache.) The San Francisco police are looking into what went down.

It would not be the first time Apple has used private security to hunt down leaks. However, if the people who stopped in at Calderon's home were not with the San Francisco police, that's a crime. And if they were with the SFPD, they had an obligation to report the information to the department, which did not happen.

So, aside from Colon, who were the other five "officers" that stopped by Calderón's home and threatened him? Were they off-duty SFPD? Were they members of REACT, the special unit (the same unit that raided Jason Chen's home last year) charged with investigating computer crime? Why were they questioning Calderón's immigration status? If you know anything, please get in touch. [SF Weekly]

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