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Facebook Sued Again By Winklevoss Twins

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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are filing another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The twins have successfully sued the social networking site before but feel they were tricked into asking for too little money. They now say that a former acquaintance told them that the company was worth much less than it actually was. The [...]

CityVille Is The Next Blockbuster Game From Zynga

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Internet web game developed Zynga has released another blockbuster to their already impressive lineup. Although slightly delayed (originally meant to be released in November) the late release hardly seemed to affect its success. CityVille was recently released to extremely warm welcome of Zynga’s fans, producing 290,000 happy players within 24 hours of its release. This [...]

Facebook Profiles Changed For Better Advertising Reach

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The new Facebook profile platform was released over the weekend. The launch, unsurprisingly, coincided with Mark Zuckerberg’s interview of 60 minutes. The new profile will focus on social relationships, but also introduces significantly higher quantities of advertisements. On Facebook’s Blog, Josh Wiseman explains that the new profile is going to focus on introducing people with [...]

Games Company Behind FarmVille Not For Sale, Founder Declares

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Zynga, the social network games developer of games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars and FrontierVille, will not be put up for sale but would more likely be floated on the stock market, its co-founder and chief executive, Mark Pincus, has said. The company is less than three years old but its most popular game, FarmVille, has [...]

Smartphones And Twitter Are Favorite Products For Japanese

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Smartphones and Twitter proved to be the two most popular products for Japanese consumers in 2010, according to a survey by ad agency Dentsu. Flat screen TVs developed for the digital broadcasting age came in at a surprising fourth place in the agency’s annual ‘Hit Product Recognition Survey’  behind a “munchable chilli oil”, a chunky [...]

Yelp Expands Check In Program With Discounts

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Yelp has influenced a new trend that is running through the ‘it’ generation across the country. The trend is to ‘check-in’ via your mobile device whenever you enter a location and then rate and revue the location when you leave. Locations vary from local mom-and-pop restaurants, to hair salons, airports and cinemas. Now Yelp has [...]

Mobile Gift Cards Set To Become Popular Holiday Season Gift

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Mobile gift cards are set to become a respectable and welcoming gift which can be purchased and redeemed electronically. Mobile gift cards can be exchanged via e-mail or text message on a smartphone and are redeemable by scanning your phone’s screen at the register or providing a gift card ID number. Unlike their cousins – [...]

Facebook Looks to Takeover Homepage Wars

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Few people even think about what page their internet browser starts with these days. It is just a simple thing. You start your browser and there is the page and you go from there. In the past the search engines have been the homepage of choice by many internet users but Facebook is looking to [...]

MySpace Opens Up To Facebook

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MySpace and Facebook sent out an email last night inviting news media to a joint announcement by the social networking sites. The announcement will be made by MySpace CEO, Mike Jones, and Facebook VP, Dan Rose. This invitation has fuelled suspicion about an upcoming joint venture between Facebook and MySpace. Last Week the Telegraph newspaper [...]

Cityville Hopes To Attract Urban Gamers

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Introducing, CityVille, the newest social network game by internet gaming giant Zynga. This past Wednesday, Zynga proudly announced not only its newest game but also the companies very first worldwide launch. CityVille will soon be available as a beta version in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. For those who have avoided social networking, Zynga [...]