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Concerns regarding Facebook privacy

There’s been another round of “Facebook is bad because they use our data” postings this weekend. The general argument is that Facebook should provide users the ability to opt-out of data sharing, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

ABC News to befriend Facebook users

Following a little later than CNN-Google-YouTube and MySpace, Facebook and ABC News could be teaming up to bring some political luster to your online world by hosting political debates and discussions more...
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College Tonight trying to go after Facebook Users

College Tonight is a new social networking site dedicated to social networking by college students. As the name implies, the primary focus of the site is night life of the college students. more...
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Li Ka-shing invests $60 M in Facebook

Kara Swisher talks about Facebook and its reported worth and reveals that Li Ka-shing, the Chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited, has invested $60 Million in the social-networki more...
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Feedheads Reaches 10,000 Active Facebook Users

Feedheads, the Facebook application that adds Google Reader shared items to your profile, and displays the most shared items and feeds in a way Google still hasn't figured out how to duplicate, is growing more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |  

LinkedIn and Facebook - Are they on a Collision course?

Mathew explores the latest move by LinkedIn to join the party of platform-openers. They just announced that they too now have a platform for development and the question is now - is it on a collision 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...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions  |  

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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