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Comcast Acquires Plaxo, Deal Closed Today

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch writes that all those rumors swirling around of the possible Plaxo deal are true and that Comcast has acquired this 2002 startup for some price between $150 and $170 Million. more...
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Rumors? Plaxo Sold to Google for $200M?

Plaxo, which was founded in 2001 by Stanford classmates Cameron Ring and Todd Masonis along with Napster cofounder and Facebook founding president Sean Parker is mulling a sale to Google. It is backed 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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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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New Year Sale: Plaxo

Apparently Plaxo is for sale as per Mike at Tech Crunch. Plaxo has hired an investment banker to help them sell the company. As per last rumors, Plaxo was supposed to be acquired by Xing, but apparently more...
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Plaxo Pulse goes OpenSocial

Orkut, Ning, Plaxo, Ning, hi5, Friendster - all had early access to Google's OpenSocial API and have started rolling out products for customers. Plaxo Pulse, the online calendar and address book is the more...
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