Facebook buys start-up Parakey for undisclosed sum
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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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Social networking site Facebook Inc. has bought Parakey Inc., a tiny startup that had been developing software it bills as a Web-based operating system.
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InfoWorld - Facebook will sell a $240 million minority stake to Microsoft, which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 22--Facebook, the social-networking start-up popular with high  school and college students, is on the verge of being purchased by Yahoo,  according to two sources with knowledge of the deal.
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Blog: As rumored, the two companies have been acquired--not by MySpace, but by the social network
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You're being traded anyway, so get a piece of the action It may be over a year since Vulture Central mentioned Paoga and it may only just be approaching launching an open Beta Test programme that anyone can sign up to â and you can here - but the reason for founder, Graham Sadd, starting the business remains. What has changed is pinpointing why potential users should be interested. Your personal information â or some of it at least - is already up for sale somewhere in the world, so why not grab a piece of the action yourself is now an underlying message. After all, it's you they are selling.â¦
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Beating out Google in a hotly contested advertising deal, Microsoft announces it is making a $240 million investment in Facebook, valuing the social network at $15 billion.
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The two companies confirm their partnership, with Microsoft taking a $240 million stake in Facebook as well as gaining the right to sell ads for Facebook internationally.
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Blog: Bay Partners is launching a special program for Facebook entrepreneurs.
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Social networking site Facebook has bought Parakey, a tiny startup that had been developing software it bills as a Web-based operating system.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in  serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo  for an amount  that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal  reported on Thursday.
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Plaxo, an early social networking site that helps people keep their address books updated is up for auction, seeking as much as $100 million.
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Insecure and antisocial networking A popular Facebook application that promises users privacy in exchange for opinions on their friends is acting as a stooly by offering the information for others to buy.â¦
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Yahoo has apparently offered $900 million for social networking site Facebook, media reports indicate. The offer is still being considered and negotiations said to be ongoing.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 24  /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook f8 Event -- Ingenio, Inc. today announced an Ether(TM) application built on Facebook Platform. Ether is a voice-commerce application that allows users to earn per call by selling their knowledge and expertise via the Internet.
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Facebook Inc., the owner of the Internet's second most popular social networking site, said Thursday that it bought Parakey, a startup run by two of the engineers that helped build Firefox's popular Web browser.
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Microsoft yesterday announced a $240 million deal with Facebook, giving the technology giant a minority stake in the popular social networking site and the exclusive rights to sell worldwide advertisements that target Facebook's 50 million members.