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TECH CRUNCH - Mar 10 - Newly independent AOL is still struggling with the fate of Bebo, the social network they acquired for $850M in 2008. Bebo has fallen from 22M monthly unique visitors when it was acquired to 14.6M today (Comscore). But even so, Bebo clearly has some value on the open market. Despite

TECH CRUNCH - Mar 8 - Facebook looks to be partnering with Eventbrite to let users sell tickets to the 3.5M events added to Facebook each month. And even though only a small percentage of events need ticket sales, lots of them want to give out free tickets. Eventbrite does

TECH CRUNCH - Mar 8 - Flash game advertising network and payments platform Mochi Media is launching a social gaming platform and a $10M fund to invest in game developers. Mochi Social allow developers to build social features into their games such as inviting friends, sending gifts, or posting to an activity stream. The

TECH CRUNCH - Feb 26 - Hulu investor Providence Equity Partners is pumping $50M into a new online video company set up by Chinese Internet search giant Baidu. The news comes 7 weeks after Baidu confirmed plans to established a new independent company to provide licensed, advertising-supported online video content to Chinese Internet users. According

TECH CRUNCH - Feb 1 - 2009 was a good year for Meebo, which saw its Meebo Bar spread to over 130 partner sites. The chat bar now reaches 110M unique visitors according to Quantcast. Starting later this week, you will no longer need to sign up for a Meebo account to

TECH CRUNCH - Jan 29 - Tagged.com has been awarded more than $200,000 in a default judgment against Erik Vogeler, who spammed thousands of Tagged members by sending them unsolicited messages with links to an adult dating website. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH

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TECH CRUNCH - Jan 27 - Elevation will invest as much as $100M in Yelp. For now, Yelp will be raising a $25M in a Series E round from the firm. Elevation co-founder Marc Bodnick will be joining Yelp’s Board of Directors. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH

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TECH CRUNCH - Jan 11 - Friendster, the social network which was acquired in December by Malaysian payments company MOL Global, has struck a deal with Yahoo Southeast Asia. The purpose of the deal is to integrate product features and cross-promote across both Friendster and Yahoo. Friendster

TECH CRUNCH - Dec 30 - Charlie Rose welcomed Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on his show last night for a 15 minute interview. Pincus says 60-70M people a day are playing social games on Facebook and MySpace, and 1%-2% are willing to shell out actual cash to enhance gameplay. Zynga is behind some

TECH CRUNCH - Dec 23 - Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs, creators of GeoAPI. GeoAPI provides developers with the ability to query the world through services which include a reverse geocoder; deep data about 16M businesses and tens of thousands of points of interest; a writable layer for developers to annotate the world

TECH CRUNCH - Dec 20 - Last month, we wrote about Jajah being the target of a bidding war. Today, it appears that war is over, with the winner being O2, and the price being $200M. Microsoft and Cisco were two other companies that were vying to get the company. Back

TECH CRUNCH - Dec 3 - Friendster is in for a major revamp tomorrow, including a new logo, tagline (”Connecting Smiles”) and an entirely fresh look. Friendster outlines some of the changes in this video.

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TECH CRUNCH - Nov 25 - LinkedIn has hit a milestone in the UK, surpassing 3M registered users. LinkedIn could pursue an initial public offering at any time it wanted to, considering it’s been running at a profit for a couple of years already and still has massive growth potential. LinkedIn reached 45M registered

TECH CRUNCH - Nov 23 - LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out a plug-in to pull in your LinkedIn contacts within Microsoft Outlook. And today, LinkedIn is opening up its API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn’s social network. FULL

TECH CRUNCH - Nov 18 - MySpace will acquire most of the assets of iMeem for ~$1M in cash. $1M isn’t the “real” purchase price for the company. Some assets are being left behind, including millions of dollars in accounts receivable plus some other cash. All or most of these

TECH CRUNCH - Nov 18 - German media giant Burda has purchased a 25.1% share in XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn. The 1,323,041 shares were sold to Burda by Cinco Capital, the investment vehicle owned by the former XING co-founder Lars Hinrichs. Priced at

TECH CRUNCH - Nov 16 - Social network app developer and advertising platform RockYou has raised $50M in a Series D round of financing from existing investor Softbank. RockYou, which launched in Nov 2005, has now raised $119M in capital and has revenues rumored in the $30M to $40M/year range