Google, Facebook in Stalemate Over Social Data As Google continues to try to gain traction in the social networking world, it runs into fierce resistance from the innovators at Facebook, who has blocked the search engine leader’s new Friend Connect system from its site.
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Meet The Man Behind Facebook's Most Useless - And Popular - Apps You've probably never heard of Blake Commagere. But if you're on Facebook, you've almost certainly seen his work. Blake's the guy behind the Zombies, Werewolves, Vampires and Slayers apps [..]
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Facebook Borks Blockbuster: Beacon Turns Into A Lawsuit (BBI) Facebook's users seem to have gotten over last year's Beacon controversy, and in retrospect it seems few of them cared in the first place. But one still does: She's suing Blockbuster (BBI) for partici [..]
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Facebook Running Out Of Cash? Good! Some say Facebook is running out of cash. Good. Maybe now the social network will buckle down and take some of the money Madison Avenue wants to throw its way in order to reach the site's 120 million active users.
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Scrabulous Pulled From Facebook [Legal] Amid Hasbro's lawsuit over the Scrabulous Facebook game, the social network has pulled the application, as it was asked to. Scrabulous users who log in are now greeted with the following message: Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian [..]
Facebook Scrabble: Like Scrabulous, Except You Can't Play Mattel and RealNetworks have released a legal version of Scrabble for Facebook. Who cares? Brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who have created Scrabulous, a very popular knock-off version of [..]
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Hasbro Tries To Crush Scrabble Fans' Favorite Facebook App Hasbro (HAS) finally filed suit against the Agarwalla brothers, the duo behind the popular Facebook app, Scrabulous. The company says it filed a copyright and trademark suit in New York a [..]
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Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board In early May, Kara Swisher reported that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen was going to join Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and Jim Breyer on Facebook's board of directors. She was right: TechCrunc [..]
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Confirmed: Facebook Users Don't Care About Beacon, Never Really Did Remember the great Beacon debacle of '07? Facebook users don't. The social network's users were purportedly up in arms about the marketing program, which was supposed to tell users what their friends were buying, rentin [..]
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 [..]
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The official Scrabble Facebook application has recently launched, but don't expect the Scrabulous boys to be shaking in their word-savvy boots anytime so [..]
You've probably never heard of Blake Commagere. But if you're on Facebook, you've almost certainly seen his work. Blake's the guy behind the Zombies, Werewolves, Vampires and Slayers apps [..]
Facebook's users seem to have gotten over last year's Beacon controversy, and in retrospect it seems few of them cared in the first place. But one still does: She's suing Blockbuster (BBI) for partici [..]
Mattel and RealNetworks have released a legal version of Scrabble for Facebook. Who cares? Brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who have created Scrabulous, a very popular knock-off version of [..]
Hasbro (HAS) finally filed suit against the Agarwalla brothers, the duo behind the popular Facebook app, Scrabulous. The company says it filed a copyright and trademark suit in New York a [..]
In early May, Kara Swisher reported that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen was going to join Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and Jim Breyer on Facebook's board of directors. She was right: TechCrunc [..]
Remember the great Beacon debacle of '07? Facebook users don't. The social network's users were purportedly up in arms about the marketing program, which was supposed to tell users what their friends were buying, rentin [..]
After challenging IAC's (IACI) CollegeHumor/Vimeo/BustedTees to a beer pong tournament, Facebook has backed out at the last minute. Why? "For 'now we're a big corporate company and [..]
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 $ [..]
