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After a billion, what's next for Facebook?
MENLO PARK — In just eight years, Facebook signed up more than half the world's Internet population. Now it's going after the rest. Facebook wants to reach every single person on the Internet whether they are logging on from a laptop in Santa...
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Bebo founder Michael Birch on Myspace sale to Specific Media, Justin Timberlake
L.A. Times Tech BlogJustin Timberlake, who played former Facebook President Sean Parker in "The Social Network," has a minority stake in Myspace through a deal Specific Media struck to buy the ailing website from News Corp. for $35 million. And that could be the kind of... -
Bebo brings back founder as strategic advisor
L.A. Times Tech BlogBebo gets founder back... -
Founders Den offers Friendster founder and other techies a place to work, hang out
L.A. Times Tech BlogSilicon Valley has incubators, accelerators and Y Combinator. Now it has a place that is being billed as a hangout for grown-up entrepreneurs. Founders Den officially swung open its doors Monday with 8,500 tech-friendly square feet in the South of...... -
Electronic Arts slashes 1,500 jobs [Corrected, Updated]
L.A. Times Tech BlogEA Logo Electronic Arts today said it will cut 1,500 jobs by the end of March 2010, the vast majority of them through a restructuring plan aimed at saving the company $100 million a year.... -
EA buys Playfish for $400 million, jumps into social games
L.A. Times Tech BlogElectronic Arts acquires Playfish in a deal valued up to $400 million, jumping into the wild west world of free social games.... -
AOL sells social networking site Bebo to L.A. private equity firm
L.A. Times Tech Blog"With this talk about Bebo, I decided to see if I could remember my login for it. ... It's still there! Like some kind of time capsule." That was the epitaph written on Twitter by Ben Peers, a graphic-design student in London, in response to the news... -
AOL Inc. posts billion-dollar loss after sales of Bebo, ICQ
L.A. Times Tech BlogFormer Internet giant AOL Inc. posted a $1.06-billion loss Wednesday resulting largely from an accounting charge triggered by its recent sale of social networking company Bebo Inc. AOL, which was spun off by Time Warner Inc. last year, is struggling to... -
Google acquires social games and apps maker Slide
L.A. Times Tech BlogGoogle made another play for the social networking space Friday with its acquisition of Slide, which makes games, applications and widgets for websites such as Facebook and MySpace. The San Francisco developer provides free apps that Facebook users can... -
AOL to sell or shut down social networking service Bebo
L.A. Times Tech BlogTwo years after paying $850 million for the social networking service, Bebo is essentially worthless and AOL plans to sell it off or close it.... -
Flick freaks find a home at Flixster
Diana Noble, a 32-year-old insurance underwriter and self-described movie freak from Cleveland, joined Flixster.com to make friends with other movie buffs.
That's where Nick Montalbano, a 37-year-old Ford salesman and fellow horror film fan from Toledo,...Tags: You Don't Mess With the Zohan (movie), Companies and Corporations, Sociology, Movies, Entertainment
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From fakery to comfort in MySpace
Swati Pandey is a researcher for The Times' editorial pages.MY NAME IS Swati, and I am an online social-networking addict. At rock bottom I was spending several hours a day on various sites with my fake friends and my fake selves. I was a member of Friendster and Facebook. I had blogs on Xanga and Blogspot. I...Tags: Sex, Sociology, Health and Safety at School, YouTube, Arctic Monkeys (music group)
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