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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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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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BitTorrent Downloads Funding

File-sharing startup snags $17 million as it forges deal to give game developers peer-to-peer distribution of titles in move toward more legitimate forms of downloads.
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BlackBerry-MySpace Poor Cousin of iPhone-Facebook

In another attempt to broden its customer base--and fight back Apple iPhones--the Canadian maker of the conservative BlackBerry smart phones launches a MySpace application.
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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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Lotame Collects $13M for Web Data

Lotame, a New York-based online advertising company focused on making money from data gathered on social-networking web sites, has now snagged a total of $23 million.
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MySpace Growth Slips; Facebook Rockets

While MySpace declines by 6 percent, No. 2 social-networking site grows 40 percent, according to Hitwise.
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SodaHead Lands a Fizzy $8.4M

Mission, Mohr Davidow back social site with overtones of talk radio and reality TV.
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Austin Ventures Makes $50M Wager

Firm bets on new media stealth start-up and the execution of former Intermix executive Sherman Atkinson.
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LinkedIn CEO: $1B Just The Start

Despite heady valuation after funding round, Nye says there are no plans for an IPO cashout.
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MySpace Woos Advertisers With Site Redesign

But will its new brand-friendly main page be enough to counter uncertainty about the effectiveness of social-networking sites as preferred ad vehicles?
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Social Music Site WeMix Sounds Off

Site blends social networking, music, star power, and record making in an attempt to score in crowded online music market.
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Google 'Salts' Web With Social Networking

Move to spread social features all over the Web could alter equation for destinations like Facebook and MySpace.
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MySpace Appoints New President of Marketing

MySpace taps Jeff Bermann as new president of sales and marketing.
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MySpace Opens Ad Window to Marketers

Social network gives advertisers direct access to its ad engine in the hope that they will strengthen their campaigns without having to wait for help from MySpace
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MySpace Befriends Merchandise

News Corp's social-networking destination announces plans to sell more merchandise through the site.
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MySpace Pumps Up the Volume to Take on iTunes

News Corp. cuts a deal with three major music companies in bid to milk more revenue from its online social network.
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Facebook IM to Rival AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft

The social network is set to launch a new instant-messaging service for its users, competing with AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other makers of IM services.
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