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Microsoft considered Facebook move
News Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo! The newspaper reported on its website that Microsoft's bankers put out subtle signals to Facebook, the social networking... [08 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Among those Ballmer named were AOL, Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! But Ballmer has not been able to come up with another alternative that would enhance Microsoft's online advertising business the way Yahoo! [02 May 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and... [10 Apr 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News Corp.s MySpace.com. [13 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Mark Zuckerberg Facebook While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of... [01 Feb 2008]
Facebook users get voice updates
News People who are already signed up with Facebook, for example, can change their status and update their wall by making a mobile phone call without the need to send a text message or email or go online. Facebook and other social networking addicts can... [25 Oct 2007]
Facebook ads to get up close and personal?
News Facebook is "quietly" assembling a new advertising model that will take advantage of the copious amounts of personal information its members post on their profiles, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's website. [23 Aug 2007]
Who's afraid of user-generated content?
News The government's Central Office of Information (COI) has put a freeze on advertising on user-generated pages of social networking websites such as Facebook, the Financial Times reports. Last week, New Media Age reported that adverts for Capital One... [06 Aug 2007]
Move over killer apps, the platform era is here
News Having a killer app alone is not enough to succeed - successful online businesses are those that evolve into web platforms which support wider ecosystems of developers, in the manner of a Google, Facebook or Second Life. [13 Jul 2007]
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