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AOL to acquire Bebo for $850 Million

Founded in 2005, with 40 million subscribers worldwide and being the third largest social networking site after MySpace and Facebook, Bebo has been acquired by AOL in a juicy cash deal of $850 Million more...
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Zazzle Launches Social Networking Profile Cards

Quick printing services company Zazzle has come up with a cool idea - to print business cards for your social networking profiles which most of us do have and so one can get the same look and feel as that more...
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Rupert Murdoch's New Startup Incubator

Call it Rupert Murdoch's farm, where MySpace plans to announce as soon as Feb. 13 that it has formed a business incubator called SlingShot Labs to spawn Internet startups for News Corp.'s growing empire 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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New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age

New startups are targeting the baby-boomers and providing niche social networking sites to cater to their needs. MySpace with wrinkles. more...
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Tagworld - MySpace for Web 2.0

Tagworld is being widely heralded as the next big thing in social networking - it’s really an updated version of MySpace with oodles of Ajax and a spattering of Flash. more...
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MySpace Kills Another Startup

TellThem.mobi has met its demise - another victim of MySpace. more...
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Troubled Revver is acquired amid spike in interest

Greenspan to the rescue. No, really. LiveUniverse, owned by MySpace.com co-founder Brad Greenspan is acquiring the troubled video sharing / aggregating site Revver and its employees breathed a big sigh more...
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