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MySpace.com has Google, Facebook would have MSN Ads!
MySpace.com is the online world?s largest social networking portal and has a potent competitor in the form of Facebook.
MySpace.com recently signed on a deal with the search engine giant Google. Google would now be providing searching and advertising on this portal.
The latest incoming news is that Facebook has [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/4289/faceb...-have-msn-ads/

Facebook users win as site forced to change privacy policies
Online social networking portal Facebook recently added some new features to their portal, which resulted in a user protest.
The new features made it easier for users to keep track of activities on their friend?s page through feeds.
Users complained that it revealed too much information about [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/4383/facebook-users-win/

Facebook to open itself to all web users
MySpace.com is currently the world?s most popular social networking portal. This service could now face increased challenge from another popular service called Facebook.
Facebook is currently restricted mostly to high school and college students and they are now considering opening itself to all the web users around the world.
They [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/4421/facebook-to...-all-web-users/

Rumor: Yahoo! interested in acquiring Facebook.com
The Wall Street Journal has said in a report that search engine company and internet giants Yahoo! is talking with the owners of social networking portal Facebook.com for a possible acquisition deal.
This deal could be worth as much as USD 1 billion. As per available information, Facebook.com has also had [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/4453/yahoo-facebook/

Viacom not interested in bidding for Facebook
Viacom Inc. chairman Sumner Redstone has categorically said in a statement that they will not be going after Facebook for a possible acquisition deal. This is despite the fact that they lost out to News Corp. in the bidding for social marketing network MySpace.com.
He added that since that acquisition [...]

http://business.techwhack.com/1194/viacom-facebook/

Facebook.com and Ziddio to produce Facebook Diaries
Online social networking service Facebook.com is collaborating with Comcast’s online video site Ziddio to launch a new series on television.
This show would be based on users’ clips and would be called ‘Facebook Diaries’.
The two companies are getting Hollywood TV producer R.J. Cutler to pick up the entries from the [...]

http://news.techwhack.com/5222/facebook.com-ziddio/

Facebook offering classifieds service to membersOnline social networking service Facebook has announced that they are now adding a classifieds service to their website.With this they are directly taking on web services including Craigslist and newspapers which have a huge presence in this market.Facebook also claimed in their statement that they are currently adding on new [...]

Facebook offering classifieds service to members

Facebook inviting other developers to code for and sell on their website Facebook is one of the few sane social networking services we have online. The developers behind the service are now inviting other companies to sell products and create software for their web based service. Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement [...]

Facebook inviting other developers to code for and sell on their website

Facebook acquires Mountain View-based ParakeyOnline social networking company Facebook has announced that they have made their first acquisition in the form of Parakey.Parakey is a company started by two engineers who were part of the team which developed the Firefox web browser.The company has based in Mountain View and has just these two engineers as [...]

Facebook acquires Mountain View-based Parakey