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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 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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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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Marc Andreessen Backs Qik

Mobile video startup attracts funding from web browser pioneer, adding to its growing list of marquee investors.
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Andreessen Joins Facebook Board

Ning co-founder joins board of directors of the social-networking site.
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Yahoo: Bracing for Bad

Analysts are preparing for the worst from Yahoo: weak 2008 guidance when it reports earnings. Upside: Layoffs could shave off $400 million in costs.
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Does Facebook Fear Google?

Facebook competes more directly in social media with Google than Microsoft, so it should come as little surprise it chose an investment from the software giant. What happened to fearing Redmond?
See also: Microsoft Takes Facebook Stake
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Microsoft Takes Facebook Stake

Software behemoth Microsoft beats Google to the punch for a piece of social-networking site Facebook, pumping in a $240 million investment that gives founder Mark Zuckerberg's company a $15 billion valuation.
Finance

Will Classmates Flunk IPO?

The aging social network hopes to raise as much as $125 million in an initial public offering. But it lists a slew of nasty risks in its SEC paperwork.