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Facebook stocks up for Google fight

As Facebook and Google jockey for dominance of the Web, the social networking titan's $5 billion stock offering will give it a hefty warchest for the ongoing fight, analysts said.

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LinkedIn's stock up 90 percent in market debut

LinkedIn's stock nearly doubled in its market debut Thursday because of huge investor demand for the first major U.S. social networking company to go public.

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LinkedIn looking for $32 to $35 per share in IPO

(AP) -- Professional networking website LinkedIn Corp. hopes to sell its stock for $32 to $35 per share in an upcoming initial public offering. Its IPO may encourage other growing Internet services to make ...

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Ant’s social network similar to Facebook

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface presents findings that show that not all ants are as social as others. Similar to your friends on Facebook, some ants communicate with o ...

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Cartel web presence could be used against them: experts

Experts from 20 countries gathered Wednesday at the Mexican resort town of Cancun to discuss a strategy for battling organized crime, in an effort mandated by the recent Summit of the Americas.

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Regulators probe bank's role in Facebook IPO

(AP) -- Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative ...

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Nasdaq glitch confuses investors of Facebook IPO

(AP) -- Some investors who thought they had bought Facebook shares at the opening of trading were left without knowing for hours whether they had received the shares.

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Nintendo posts first annual loss

Japanese videogame giant Nintendo on Thursday posted its first annual loss since becoming a public company, blaming a soaring yen and price cuts on its consoles for sinking it $530 million into the red.

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Facebook's popularity also brings lawsuits

As Facebook readies for Wall Street's richest high-tech debut, it is wrangling with litigation and bracing for potential new suits.

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S. Korea tightens monitoring of social media

South Korea has tightened monitoring of popular social networking sites to curb illicit content including an upsurge in North Korean propaganda, officials said Thursday.

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LinkedIn passes Myspace in US traffic: comScore

LinkedIn leapfrogged Myspace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, tracking firm comScore reported Friday.

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Zynga buys Toronto mobile software studio

Online social games sensation Zynga on Friday announced it has bought a Canadian firm specializing in software applications for mobile devices.

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'FarmVille' creator Zynga to go public

(AP) -- Zynga, the online game maker behind "FarmVille" and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public, the latest in a crop of high-valued Internet IPOs expected after LinkedIn Corp. showed that the ...

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FarmVille's Zynga files for $1 billion IPO (Update)

Zynga, maker of FarmVille and other popular online games, filed paperwork Friday for an initial public offering aiming to raise about $1 billion from the markets.

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China's Alibaba splits online shopping unit Taobao

China's largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group announced Thursday it has split its consumer online shopping platform Taobao into three firms to adapt to an increasingly competitive landscape.

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