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TECH CRUNCH - Jul 30 - Bloomberg reports that Facebook is to – probably – put off an eventual IPO until at least 2012. Waiting at least another year and a half would give CEO Mark Zuckerberg more time to follow through on his vision without too much public scrutiny and the implications

TECH CRUNCH - July 29 - When asked about Google’s partnership with Zynga, Mr. Schmidt said “we haven’t announced it” but “you can expect a partnership with Zynga” in the future. Expect Google Games to be announced sometime this year. And Zynga will be one of the main game engines

TECH CRUNCH - July 13 - hi5, a gaming-focused social network, has just closed a new round of funding of over $14M led by Crosslink Capital. This brings the social network’s funding to over $34M. The new funding will be used for hi5′s continued expansion into social gaming and virtual goods

TECH CRUNCH - July 8 - Nextstop, the startup which launched in early 2009, mixes social recommendations with search and adds a reputation system and elements of gameplay. It was founded by a couple of ex-Googlers, Carl Sjogreen and Adrian Graham, who helped launch Google Calendar and Google Groups, and Picasa. The

TECH CRUNCH - July 6 - The number of visitors to MySpace UK has halved in the last six months, leading to a fresh round of layoffs at the London office. Monthly visits to MySpace UK are down from a peak of just under 10M at the start of the year

TECH CRUNCH - Jun 28 - Facebook recently announced it would be opening an office in Hyderabad, India, to be able to provide better round-the-clock and multilingual support to its ever-increasing number of users, advertisers and third-party developers. According to Business Standard and India Times, the company is set to launch its India operations

TECH CRUNCH - Jun 23 - FarmVille is finally coming to the iPhone. The game is now available in the New Zealand App Store, and appears to be propagating to other countries worldwide — expect it to go live in the US later this evening. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH

TECH CRUNCH - June 17 - The rumors are true: hedge fund Criterion Capital Partners is indeed the buyer of Bebo. AOL is offloading Bebo for less than $10M (other media are reporting a purchase price of around $2.5 million). Criterion Capital Partners will take over Bebo’s global operations immediately and retain

TECH CRUNCH - June 15 - Social gaming giant Zynga has raised $150M from Japanese firm Softbank Capital, bringing the company’s total funding up to $366M. The investment from Asia will likely pave the way for Zynga’s expansion into the Japanese market. Zynga already has interests in the Asian market. The company

TECH CRUNCH - May 31 - On Monday, a Pakistani court ordered authorities to restore access to Facebook after company officials reportedly apologized for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents. The Lahore High Court imposed the nationwide ban almost two weeks ago amid

TECH CRUNCH - May 24 - Yahoo has had a busy day. Not only did they announce a new cross-branding deal with Nokia, and struck a partnership with Match.com, but they apparently made an acquisition too. It’s an Asian location-based service called Koprol. Yahoo had been in discussions to buy Foursquare

TECH CRUNCH - May 18 - After months of discord, Zynga and Facebook have made peace. Despite Zynga’s earlier frustrations and reports that it was ready to abandon Facebook, the two companies were able to agree to a “five-year strategic relationship.” Terms of the agreement between Facebook and Zynga were

TECH CRUNCH - Apr 21 - Jibblar is a text-only, communal version of Chatroulette. It allows people in close proximity to anonymously contribute to a chat room. Jibblar grabs your location from the Firefox or iPhone browser and will only facilitate conversation with people in your immediate vicinity (0.5 kilometers). The only identifier is

TECH CRUNCH - Apr 21 - Facebook is closing in on the 500M monthly unique visitors mark. The social network saw 484M unique visitors worldwide in March, 2010, according to comScore. That number is up 64% from a year ago, and up 22M from February, 2010. FULL ARTICLE @