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Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | about 2 hours ago

Posted by jzahir send a private message

Social networking may be taking the Internet by storm but that doesn't mean investors are thrilled about it. Turns out that monetizing pages where people are exchanging gossip and personal trivia while playing with inane applications isn't that easy....

Tags: Facebook, money, advertising, social networks

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago

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Once upon a time, there was a little widget called Meebo. It excelled by pooling together disparate interactive chatting programs such as MSN, Yahoo and iCQ into a unified interface. No longer would you have to log into multiple chatting programs to span...

Tags: power, facebook, social network

Melbourne :: Australia | 4 days ago

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An Australian restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social networking Web site Facebook to track them down — and they got their just desserts. Peter Leary from Melbourne seafood restaurant...

Tags: Dine-and-dash gang nabbed, Facebook

Toronto :: Canada | 5 days ago

Premier Dalton McGuinty appears willing to acknowledge that father may not always know best when it comes to new driver legislation. The McGuinty government is under pressure to respond to more than 110,000 people who have signed onto a Facebook group...

Tags: Dalton McGuinty, premier dalton, driver legislation, passenger restrictions, teen driver, teenage passenger, Facebook, Ontario

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago

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SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has won $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online hangout with sexually explicit "spam" messages. The victory, sealed with a judge's order issued last Friday, probably won't yield a windfall...

Tags: Facebook, Social, Networking, sex, spam, lawsuit, judgement, court

Bangalore :: India | 6 days ago

Kara Swisher's BoomTown blog yesterday detailed how acquisition talks between the two hottest privately held dot-com companies recently fell apart...The same thing that tosses many such pacts into the woodchipper: price. Unnamed sources from both sides...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter Worth

Calgary :: Canada | 7 days ago

Police in Canada are investigating attacks on children with red hair after an anti-ginger group was set up by a teenager on Facebook. Ken Logel It is thought an episode of the animated series South Park, known for its satirical humour, recently focused...

Tags: red hair, Facebook

Toronto :: Canada | 7 days ago

Tanya Talaga Queen's Park Bureau The Ontario government is getting an increasingly rough ride over plans to limit the number of young passengers that drivers aged 19 and under can take in a vehicle. The New Democratic Party is uniting with the Progressive...

Tags: Dalton McGuinty, Ontario, Facebook, teen driver, facebook group, teenage driver, premier dalton, young driver, transportation minister

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago

Facebook has won an $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online social networking site with sexually explicit "spam" messages. The victory, sealed with a judge's order issued last Friday, probably will not yield a windfall...

Tags: spammers, Facebook, Adam Guerbuez, facebook wins, million judgment, California, Montreal, Judge Jeremy Fogel, social networking, Atlantis Blue Capital

Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 days ago

It has been a while since we had some eyebrow-raising acquisition rumours, and perhaps that's not surprising given the state of the financial markets. But there's a fascinating report from Kara Swisher on AllThingsD today which claims that Facebook recently...

Tags: social network, social networking, technology, Facebook, Twitter

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