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Storage startup Aster Data raises $12 Million

Led by JAFCO Ventures, Redwood City based Aster Data, which provides cheap data warehousing solutions and which is currently storing all the data for MySpace has raised $12 Million in its second round more...
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Moblyng Launches Mobile Access to MySpace Media

Without providing any application to download, making it easier, startup Moblyng is offering a mobile destination where any user can view the most popular content (videos, slide shows) being shared across more...
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Startup MyYearbook Raises $13 Million More

Quick - which is the fastest growing social network (aimed at teens) in the world? Facebook? Nah. It's MyYearbook which just raised $13 Million from Northwest Venture Partners. In US, MyYearbook attracts more...
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Startup Piczo Launches Pseudo API

San Francisco based and founded in July of 2007, the teenage focused social networking startup Piczo has launched its Pseudo API, whatever that means to provides hooks for developers. This company has more...
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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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