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Google incorporating “Universal Activity Stream” in OpenSocial

Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch writes about the how Google is incorporating Facebook becon (yes, the controversial feature) into OpenSocial. Facebook's becon feature monitors the activity of users on partners more...
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Microsoftie dealmaker Bruce Jaffe going startup

Bruce Jaffe, a top corporate-development Microsoft executive who helped engineer its $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and its $240 million investment in Facebook, is leaving the company to start his more...
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Plaxo and FriendFeed: More On Presence And The Social Feed

Mike Gotta discusses how Plaxo and FriendFeed solve a very important problem with the social networking sites: there’s been no good way to see what your friends are doing on different sites around the more...
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Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far)

Oooh. Michael Arrington says that the brouhaha over Facebook buying Plaxo is all false so far and that even though Plaxo is up for sale (since quite some time actually), this deal is not exactly history. more...
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Sun Buys MySQL

Sun is acquiring open source database company MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options. MySQL is used by many of the web's largest companies, including YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia, more...
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Did Slide Get Big Funding?

Kara Swisher talks about Slide, the San Francisco startup whose widgets are among the most popular on Facebook and MySpace–is completing a round of funding that could value the startup at many times more...
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Can Facebook Keep Your Info After You Deactivate your Account?

Is Facebook facing some more flack for its user policies in the UK? After users complained about Facebook’s policy regarding the deactivation of an account, the Information Commissioner’s Office has more...
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Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program Expands

Bringing 30 new startups into its fold, Microsoft is aggresively expanding its Startup Accelerator Program so that it can shepherd enough to bring out at least some successful competition to the likes more...
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How Facebook Gave Birth to an Industry

May 24, 2007 is regarded as the day when the Social Networking Operating System or the Facebook Economy was kick started by Mark Zuckerberg when he announced that the 'startup' social networking site more...
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Psst ... Facebook Finances Leaked

Planning to go public in 2009, Marc Zuckerberg needs to do something fast on the revenues streams in order to justify their huge valuation as well as the zooming headcount increase (shooting up 450 to more...
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