Facebook Loses Long-Time Exec To Benchmark Capital A high-profile loss for Facebook: Matt Cohler, VP of product management, is leaving the company to join Benchmark Capital as partner, WSJ reports. Cohler was one of Mark Zuckerberg's fir [..]
Slide Opens West Village Sales Office, Taps ex-AOLer To Run It Slide, the makers of popular social networking apps like FunWall (#1 on Facebook) and Top Friends (#3 on Facebook), is hoping to woo Madison Avenue by opening an office in New York in the West Villa [..]
Facebook Harnesses Users’ Translation Skills for Free Facebook is getting a global boost from users around the world, who are translating its visible framework into nearly two dozen languages for free. The move is generating mounting criticism online, where some users question whether amateurs can produce good translations.
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Allt fler företag blockerar Facebook En undersökning i USA visar att fler och fler företag börjar blockera åtkomsten till sociala nätverk såsom Facebook och Myspace bland sina anställda. Många företag ser användandet som ett hot mot produktiviteten. [..]
MySpace Will Come Out With A Payment Platform (Maybe Before Facebook) Facebook has been rumored to be building a PayPal-like micro payment platform for months now, but News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace might beat them to the punch.
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Google: Our Yahoo Deal Won't Raise Search Ad Prices (That Much) Google is firing back at the idea that its search ad deal with Yahoo will lead to higher search ad prices -- the heart of the antitrust opposition the deal now faces in D.C., in the States, and in Europe. [..]
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Analysts Give Up On Yahoo-Google Search Deal, Want Microsoft Deal Yahoo management's moves over the past year are rapidly slipping into tragicomedy. As we've noted frequently over the past few weeks, the Yahoo-Google search deal is on the rocks, and both the company and now Wall Street are floppin [..]
Majesco Hits Facebook With Bananagrams [Facebook] Majesco's getting on board the Facebook game craze with Bananagrams, an anagram game hitting the social networking site for free on August 18th. The game starts you off with a batch of selected tiles, and then players have to make up as many words as possible, as quickly as they can, from t [..]
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Facebook for BlackBerry to be revamped in January Let’s face it — the Facebook for BlackBerry appication isn’t anything to write home about. Most everything it can do can be achieved through simple SMS commands, so it’s really nothing more than looking at an ugly face through some seriously strong beer goggles. When MySpace for BlackBerry was launched a lot of people were [...] [..]
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Dueling announcements from social networking's biggest players today: MySpace (NWS) announced that it was overhauling its design, while Facebook announced that it would be holding its second annual [..]
A high-profile loss for Facebook: Matt Cohler, VP of product management, is leaving the company to join Benchmark Capital as partner, WSJ reports. Cohler was one of Mark Zuckerberg's fir [..]
Yet another data point for our ongoing "what is Facebook really worth?" survey: An investment banker tells us he sold a tiny slice of the company this spring at a valuation "north of $ [..]
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Slide, the makers of popular social networking apps like FunWall (#1 on Facebook) and Top Friends (#3 on Facebook), is hoping to woo Madison Avenue by opening an office in New York in the West Villa [..]
Warner Bros. Television Group (TWX) signed distribution agreements for the broadband version of its reinvented WB Network, as well as KidsWB.com, with Joost, Dailymotion, Sling Media [..]
We've gotten official word from Facebook's PR folks, confirming yesterday's report: The company will let employees sell some stock this fall. No detail beyond that, but we'll update if we [..]
Let’s face it — the Facebook for BlackBerry appication isn’t anything to write home about. Most everything it can do can be achieved through simple SMS commands, so it’s really nothing more than looking at an ugly face through some seriously strong beer goggles. When MySpace for BlackBerry was launched a lot of people were [...] [..]
