Man Who Claims Ownership Over Facebook Willing To Hire Zuckerberg To Run It August 3, 2010
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No Facebook IPO Before 2012 August 2, 2010
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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
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Google CEO Announces Zynga Partnership July 31, 2010
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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
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hi5 Raises $14 Million July 14, 2010
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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
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Facebook Acquires Social Travel Recommendation Site Nextstop July 10, 2010
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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
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Visits To MySpace UK Have Halved In 6 Months July 7, 2010
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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
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Facebook Hiring 500 People In India June 29, 2010
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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
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Zynga’s FarmVille Now Rolling Out To The App Store June 25, 2010
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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
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Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo From AOL June 18, 2010
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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
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Zynga Raises $150 Million More From Softbank June 17, 2010
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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
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How Facebook EdgeRank Affects Your Visibility June 14, 2010
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Social Networks Overtake Search Engines In UK June 9, 2010
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Pakistan Court Lifts Ban On Facebook June 1, 2010
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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
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Yahoo Acquires "Asian Foursquare" May 26, 2010
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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
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Twitter To Prohibit Any Third Party To Advertise In-Stream May 25, 2010
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TECH CRUNCH - May 24 - Twitter will not be allowing any third party to
inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the
Twitter API. The changes will be reflected in an updated set of Terms
& Conditions, which is due to be released ‘shortly’. This is… Continue reading
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Facebook, MySpace & Others Share Identifying User Data With Advertisers May 22, 2010
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TECH CRUNCH - May 20 - A report in the Wall Street Journal reveals that
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and a number of other social sites are
passing along data that advertisers could potentially use to identify
users who click their ads. It sounds like Facebook and the… Continue reading
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Facebook And Zynga Enter Into Five Year Partnership May 19, 2010
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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
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Nielsen Acquires GlanceGuide May 5, 2010
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Jibblar: Part Chatroulette, Minus Nudity April 23, 2010
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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
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Facebook Closing In On 500 Million Visitors A Month April 22, 2010
Posted by admin in : Social Networking , add a comment 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 @
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