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Electronic Arts Hooks Playfish

Games publisher grabs casual games maker for about $300 million in deal that could be worth another $100 million if Playfish meets certain targets. EA also posts earnings, reporting plans to cut 1,500 employees.
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MySpace Falls for iLike

Social-networking site announces its decision to acquire music recommendation application iLike for an undisclosed sum.
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Facebook: Your $6.5 Billion Friend?

Facebook employees have been offered $14.77 a share for their stock by Digital Sky Technologies in a deal that values the startup at $6.5 billion.
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General news, Finance

Facebook Friends New CFO

The world's leading social-networking Web site announces it has picked a former Genentech exec as its new CFO.
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Accel Grabs Google Exec

Facebook investor picks up Google’s president of Asia-Pacific and Latin America operations, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy.
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Facebook Seeks Cash

Company shops for $100 million in cash to keep mountains of servers running the popular social-networking site, according to a report.
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FamilyLink Connects With $2.85M

Social-networking site that targets family connections gets second round of funding despite surplus of rivals.
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Facebook App Maker Appirio Draws $10M

Startup snags third-round funding from GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital for its promise to help companies tap into customers using Facebook applications, among others.
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Carrier Group Touts Credible Mobile Ad Data

GSMA says it found a way to measure mobile users’ browsing behavior that should satisfy skeptical advertisers.
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Communications, Internet

Facebook Wants Twitter

Reports that the social networking giant is negotiating with the miniblogger raises questions about what both companies are worth.
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Facebook Gets a Recount

New ad formats cause dramatic lowering of social site’s ad traffic count, so comScore says it will upgrade to include ‘engagement’ ads.
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Adknowledge Buys Lookery Unit

Social pay-per-click ad network acquires ad-serving business.
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TechSpin: The New Uncertainty

Transformation. Paradigms Tossed. Out With the Old. Microsoft's embrace of "the cloud" is just a sign of the latest upheaval in tech -- and it's right on schedule.
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Media, Internet, Finance

Playfish Nets $17M

Popular Facebook game developer grabs funding for further expansion. Move could pave the way for startup to develop for Apple's iPhone and HTC's G1.
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Facebook Gets Pass from SEC

Agency lawyers rule that social networker won’t have to bare its inner workings by registering restricted stock awards.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg: New Unpopular Design Stays

Social-networking giant's chief executive writes in a company blog that users must get used to the site's new look because it will stay.
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Social Gaming Network Grabs Another Facebook App

Developer of gaming applications for social-networking websites buys another popular Facebook app.
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Facebook's New Face Unpopular

Leading social-networking site is making its new layout permanent and gets much heat from users.
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Yahoo Unwraps oneConnect for iPhone

Search company makes “social address book” available to Apple App store for iPhones and iPod touch devices.
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LinkedIn Tunes to CNBC

The social network for career climbers, whose last venture round valued the company at $1 billion, swaps content with business TV network.
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