Facebook innovators win funding, settle for jobs
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First came the dot-com gold miners. For those who stayed on after the bust, there was still some silver to be found. But for latecomers and recent graduates seeking to cash in on the latest Silicon Valley craze, it's mostly decent paid salary work that's left.
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Eurekster, Inc., which wasone of the first community based social search engines, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing. The funding, from Technology Venture Partners (TVP) of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan with the participation of the private investors who provided the company&#8217;s initial Series A financing, will enable Eurekster to accelerate [...]
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The rise of social networks such as Facebook and wireless gadgets such as the iPhone has set off a small stampede of companies hoping to build on or replicate their success. Many are counting on advertising to pay the bills.
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Wallop, a startup spun out of Microsoft Corp.'s research lab, is launching the test version of an online social networking site with the premise that people will want to pay extra to look good.
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Privately held social networking  site Facebook Inc. said on Thursday it has acquired Internet  startup Parakey, run by the co-founders of Web browser Mozilla  Firefox, for an undisclosed sum.
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There was a dream that was web 2.0...sob Comment Silicon Valley's onanistic elements have been in vinegar-stroke mode for an age over the tussle between Google and Microsoft to invest in $15bn profit-lite social networking phenomenon Facebook.â¦
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Firefox co-founders get networking Facebook, the ubiquitous, in-your-face social [cough] networking website, has acquired Parakey, a startup run by the co-founders of Mozilla Firefox.â¦
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Software giant locks up ads on the social networking site, takes equity stake and makes Mark Zuckerberg a happy dude.
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Online social networking phenomenon Facebook Inc said on Monday its backers have created an unusual $10 million fund to dole out grants to start-ups with ideas for innovative Facebook applications.
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Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity.
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The company announces a new program called FBFund to provide grants to developers who are interested in creating applications for the Facebook Platform.
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Social network software maker  Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million  institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of  start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity.
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Plaxo, Google, and Facebook now have members in the relatively new consortium to promote social-networking interoperability. Don't expect to see immediate results any time soon, though.
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College parties met business e-mail on Wednesday as Facebook Inc. said it is adding its social-networking platform to Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices.
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Facebook Inc., the fast growing  Silicon Valley social networking site, said on Thursday it has  acquired Internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the  co-creators of the popular Web browser, Mozilla Firefox.
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Facebook lands a Web-based operating system company with pedigree papers.
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Bebo has developed a system to let applications written for Facebook run on its social network.