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Facebook Issues Improved Privacy, Obscenity Protections; Joins MySpace On Internet Safety Task Force - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 08 May 2008 10:31 AM PST

Facebook makes a PR push on the privacy and safety front today, instituting an array of enhanced privacy safeguards and obscenity blockers as part of an agreement with 49 state…

Industry Moves: Channel M; Facebook; NetShelter; Grey Global - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 08 May 2008 10:10 AM PST

-- Channel M: Peter Lee has been appointed CTO and chief strategy officer, focusing on building out the company’s digital distribution network. He joins from the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS)…

Google Execs ‘Divided’ On Yahoo Search Deal; AOL Talks Continue Without Urgency: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 08 May 2008 04:37 AM PST

Where have all Yahoo’s Plan Bs gone? In the days before Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) withdrew its bid for the company, it put out word that it was on the verge…

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Coming Soon To The Endangered Species List: Online Ad Sales Teams? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 07 May 2008 08:48 PM PST

The self-serve ads option has been all the rage for search ads the last few years. Increasingly, now, do-it-yourself is becoming similarly popular for the display ad space. Over the…

Gates Says Microsoft Will Go Own Way; Obligatory Facebook Call Happened - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 May 2008 10:30 AM PST

As Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tries to recover from the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) bid, and even as everyone understands this will not be the end of the deal talks for either…

Who Will Microsoft Buy Now With the $50 Billion Change Left? AOL? Facebook? - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 03 May 2008 08:36 PM PST

Despite the fact that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has withdrawn its offer to buy Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the M&A machinery on all sides is still in full gear, and expect tons…

Social App Incubator Buddy Media Raises $6.5 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Apr 2008 10:45 AM PST

Buddy Media, a developer of social networking apps, has raised a $6.5 million second round from Softbank, European Founders Fund, Greycroft Partners, Ron Conway, as well as its previous backers..…

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others Unite To Fight NYS Ad Targeting Bill; FTC Ending Comments On Regs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 Apr 2008 03:47 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), AOL (NYSE: TWX), Facebook, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and others have banded together to fight a proposed bill in the New York State Legislature that…

Facebook On Verge Of Settling ConnectU Lawsuit: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Apr 2008 06:08 AM PST

Facebook is close to settling a lingering legal nuisance over its origin, reports Brad Stone at Bits. The company was sued by the founders of ConnectU, a Harvard-borne social net,…

RealNetworks Doesn’t Buy Scrabulous; Launches Own Version Instead - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Apr 2008 06:16 PM PST

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has previously professed its supposedly neutral position in the copyright controversy over the popular Facebook app Scrabulous, is now sneaking itself into the mix: it is…

Flixster Raises $5 Million Of Planned $8 Million Second Round; No Sale - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 04 Apr 2008 08:34 AM PST

So Flixster finally decided not to sell (or, that no one was willing to pay its blue-sky valuation hopes): the movie-based social service that’s popular on Facebook, has raised $5…

Facebook And CareerBuilder Collaborate On Targeted Ads - With Users’ Permission, Of Course - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 31 Mar 2008 02:27 PM PST

Could be another blow to newspapers’ classified revenues: CareerBuilder and Facebook are working together to create campaigns for recruiters across the social net site’s user profile pages, Reuters reported. The…

Updated: Facebook Investor Li Ka-Shing Upping Stake To $120 Million: Report - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 27 Mar 2008 12:25 PM PST

See update belowHong Kong mogul and Facebook investor Li Ka-Shing has reportedly increased his investment in the social networking site from $60 million to more than $100. The claim was…

@ SxSW: Keynote: Mark Zuckerberg: More To Facebook Than Valuation, Microsoft - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 09 Mar 2008 01:25 PM PST

(Update: The video of the session is here online, on Austin-American’s website.) Take a wild guess why that’s a picture of a screen broadcasting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, rather than…

FT.com To Give Facebook Students Free Four-Year Subs - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Mar 2008 09:16 AM PST

FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free site subscriptions to college students via Facebook, the site has told us. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN…

Facebook Continues Music Biz Outreach; Moves Appear To Mirror MySpace: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Mar 2008 03:13 PM PST

We reported on this first in October, Facebook has been setting up meetings with music industry executives as the social net tries to find the best way to set up…

Industry Moves: Facebook Hires Google Ad Exec Sheryl Sandberg As COO; Fills #2 Gap - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 04 Mar 2008 11:07 AM PST

Facebook is set to announce the hire of Sheryl Sandberg, VP of vice president, Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, as its new COO, reports sister pubs ATD and…

Will RealNetworks End Up Buying Scrabulous? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Mar 2008 02:55 PM PST

I had the exact same thought that Om had after I read the NYT piece last night AND when RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) PR sent out a note about the…

@ MPA: Facebook’s Van Natta On The Lessons Of Beacon; No Hints On Future Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 27 Feb 2008 03:59 PM PST

In his MPA Q&A with Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick, Owen Van Natta didn’t offer any further hints about his future plans when he leaves his post as chief revenue officer of…

Facebook’s Owen Van Natta To Leave - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 19 Feb 2008 07:04 PM PST

Owen Van Natta, the chief revenue officer of Facebook who by some accounts was demoted from his earlier position of COO, is leaving the company, reports ATD. Van Natta was…

Updated: EC Approves Thomson-Reuters With Conditions; DOJ Concurs; Close Expected In April - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 19 Feb 2008 08:02 AM PST

On schedule, the European Commission has approved the merger of Thomson (NYSE: TOC) and Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) (technically the former is buying the latter), provided the companies meet certain competition…

Broadband Content Bits: AppleTV; MSNBC.com; Mars-Facebook; HarperCollins; Tiscali; Dennis - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 14 Feb 2008 03:42 PM PST

-- AppleTV update launches after two week delay: Apple quietly launched its free AppleTV update this week, after having postponed the software two weeks ago. Now users have wireless access…

Marketing Services Provider Lookery Raises $900K Seed Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 12 Feb 2008 02:35 PM PST

Lookery, a marketing solutions provider for social networking sites, has raised a seed fund of $900,000 led by Charles River Ventures, Reed Hundt and Vikas Taneja of HT Ventures, according…

Slow-Going For Social Net Ad Revenues; Will MSFT+YHOO Spur It? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 04 Feb 2008 09:10 PM PST

Despite the increasing popularity of social networking sites, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Fox Interactive and others are still having difficulty unlocking the platform’s potential ad revenue. Explaining its…

Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment - 11 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 20 Jan 2008 03:46 PM PST

[by David Kaplan and Rafat Ali] Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned. The…