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		<title><![CDATA[Privately Held Facebook Sets Up Dual-class Stock]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Facebook has established a dual-class stock structure to ensure voting control by existing owners, but has no plans to become a public company, it said on Tuesday."We did introduce a dual class stock structure because existing shareholders wanted to maintain control over voting on certain issues,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:28 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LinkedIn Opens Up To Developers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to integrate the professional social network on their own business apps and websites. As Venturebeat points out, LinkedIn already let developers build apps on LinkedIn,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:45:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sears Face(book)s Black Friday]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give Sears Holding SHLD credit for making the most out of Black Friday, as itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s not only squeezing the event for all its worth without actually discounting more deeply than other retailers, but itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s also using initiatives revolving around the date to boost its social networking initiatives.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:12:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jason Goldberg Leaving Xing After A Year; New Startup & Investments]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-jason-goldberg-leaving-xing-after-a-year-news-startup-investments%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Socialmedian sale price at that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Brings Social Networks?Starting With LinkedIn?To Outlook]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With more people turning to social networks to communicate, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is adding a new feature to the next version of Outlook so that users can track the activities of contacts on social networks from within their e-mail inboxes. The feature&#8212;called Outlook Social Connector&#8212;aggregates social networking updates, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mag Publisher Burda Buying A Quarter Of Xing; $287 Million Valuation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of ?48.29 million (£42.7 million, $71.9 million), making it Xing&#8217;s biggest single shareholder.Burda is making the deal through its Burda Digital division, buying 1.32 million shares priced ?36.50....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[RockYou Raises $50 Million In Fourth Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Social networking app firm RockYou has raised $50 million in a fourth round of funding led by Softbank, TechCrunch reports. RockYou&#8217;s apps span all the major social networks; it also runs an ad network, which it claimed reached more than 178 million users last month, up from 130 million...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:05:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Punchbowl To Add Local Party Vendor Listings With I'm In Acquisition]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-punchbowl-to-add-local-party-vendor-listings-with-im-in-acquisition%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Punchbowl Software, parent company of events-planning site MyPunchbowl.com, has acquired rival group travel planning and events site I&#8217;m In. The deal includes I&#8217;m In&#8217;s code, domain, registered user base and trademarks&#8212;but not the founders or management team&#8212;as they&#8217;ve gone on to pursue &#8220;new opportunities&#8221;&#8212;per an acquisition FAQ pdf. Financial...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:11:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Big Brother' data plan faces friction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Internet providers such as BT, Virgin Media and BSkyB are on a collision course with the police and security services over de-mands they store records of all e-mail, social networking and web traffic, according to an industry document seen by the Financial Times.In its written response to the Home...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social Network Tagged Settles Marketing Suits]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Social network Tagged has settled lawsuits with attorneys general in New York and Texas over its controversial marketing practices. The social network&#8212;which has raised about $14 million&#8212;was sued in July for allegedly tricking members into giving it access to their e-mail inboxes and then sending out promotional e-mails.Tagged will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:25:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Twitter and LinkedIn sign deal to sync status updates]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LinkedIn and Twitter are rolling out an update that lets users post status messages across both social networking platforms. The move follows two recent partnership deals from Twitter, signed with Google and Microsoft&#8217;s Bing, and promises to give LinkedIn's business-focused social network a substantial boost in traffic.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:24:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Glam Face-Off, Round Three: French Site Warns Glam Media Off]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When we heard of the latest product launch from France&#8217;s vertical publisher and social network business Glam One&#8212;owner of the &#8220;Glam&#8221; trademark in France&#8212;we wondered whether it would be a problem for US ad network Glam Media, which is planning to launch in France next year.Glam Media told us:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Everlater, a startup that lets users set up online travel scrapbooks, has raised a first round of funding led by Highway 12 Ventures; the company isn&#8217;t saying how much it raised. With Everlater, users designate the origin and destination of a trip and then can add text, photos, and...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa BaertleinLOS ANGELES (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Starbucks Corp SBUX raised its financial forecasts for 2010 in the latest sign a year-long turnaround effort is boosting margins and putting it back on track for growth, sending shares up almost 4 percent.The company, which posted an expectations-topping fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, increased...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Email Dead?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Labs and author of "The Facebook Era," explains how social web platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are impacting businesses. She says email is slowly being replaced by social networking applications -- a shift driven by young...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Tests A Real-Time Search Feature]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is joining the real-time search party. The company is testing a &#8220;search shortcut&#8221; that places real-time results above standard search results for some select queries, Yahoo tells us. In a statement, Yahoo describes the initiative as a &#8220;test designed to discover if showing such content is...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-Bebo VP Angel Gambino Joining LatAm Social Net Sonico]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Former Bebo and MTV exec Angel Gambino is joining Latin American social network Sonico as its VP for business development at the company&#8217;s Buenos Aires HQ.She&#8217;s tasked with signing partnerships to reach users on different platforms, to bring in revenue through &#8220;content and applications&#8221;.Two-year-old Sonico raised $4.3 million in...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking users will soon rebel against their ever-growing list of 'friends' they barely know. For Internet marketers, this culling could be a blow or an opportunity. How will you play it? by Sean Silverthorne]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:48:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Facebook Awarded $711 Million Judgment Against Spammer]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Facebook has won a second big judgment against a spammer. This time around, the social network has been awarded $711 million in damages against a man who used a phishing scheme to get access to user accounts and then sent out fake Wall posts and messages, according to Facebook&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tip: How To Outsell a Competitor's Rep]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to use the social networking profile of a competitor's rep to outmaneuver and neutralize his or her selling efforts. by Geoffrey James]]></description>
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