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0	Early social network Friendster sold to Malaysian payment systems vendor Kuala Lumpur-based MOL, a payment systems seller known much better in Asia than in America, announced today its acquisition of Friendster, an... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Dec 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Updated: RockYou raises $50 million for in-game advertising, growth in Asia RockYou , one of the largest developers and ad networks built around Facebook’s platform, just raised $50 million in venture funding from Softbank.... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 16, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Lawsuit alleges Offerpal co-founder was cheated out of ownership Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned.... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Sustainability: The ‘must have’ holy grail (Editor’s note: Bernard Moon is vice president of the Lunsford Group. He contributed this story to VentureBeat.) When I was a kid, Atari dominated... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 26, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Malaysia's MOL Buys Friendster Malaysian businessman Vincent Tan reached a deal to acquire Friendster, a social-networking site that retains a big following in part of Asia but has... Source: wsj.com Date: Dec 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	MOL Global to acquire 100% of Friendster Malaysian online payments community in "definitive agreement" to purchase social network Remember Friendster? One of the very first social... Source: vator.tv Date: Dec 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook’s New Privacy Push Concerns Experts That didn’t take long. Just 24 hours after Facebook began rolling out a privacy announcement and settings tool to its more than 350 million users, a... Source: mashable.com Date: Dec 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Sells To Malaysian Firm Mountain View-based social networking firm Friendster has been acquired by Malaysian firm MOL Global Pte. Ltd., an firm affiliated with online... Source: silicontap.com Date: Dec 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Malaysian Payments Company MOL Global Snaps Up Friendster We heard reports that Friendster was going to shopping itself to an Asian technology company but tonight, the news was released that MOL Global, a... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Dec 9, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster’s Fate: Sold to Malaysian E-commerce Giant Just a few days ago we heard rumours about the imminent sale of Friendster, one of the first-generation social networks that originally kicked off the... Source: mashable.com Date: Dec 9, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Top 10 Failures of 2009 In our yearly wrap-ups of the best products of 2009, we cannot but notice the shadow that falls over the editorial desk. We are chilled and saddened... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Dec 7, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	RUMOR: Friendster to Be Sold for $100+ Million Do you remember Friendster? Several years ago, it was one of the hottest startups and social networks around, long before MySpace or Facebook hit the... Source: mashable.com Date: Dec 4, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Launches New Brand Targeting Asian Youth MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Friendster, Inc., a top global web site based on traffic, today announced a new brand and web site... Source: prnewswire.com Date: Dec 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster to be sold by month's end: source SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Friendster, one of the world's earliest social networking sites, will be sold to an Asian buyer by the end of December for at... Source: reuters.com Date: Dec 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Relaunching: A Lesson in How Not to Brand Being one of the first social networking sites in existence certainly doesn't establish you as the best or most popular. For this reason, Friendster... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Dec 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zoosk Lands Another $30 Million For Social Dating Zoosk, the dating service with a focus on social networks, has closed a $30 million Series D funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Dec 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Gets A Major Makeover, Calls Other Social Networks Plain And Boring Log on to Friendster today and you'll see a background image that says 'Watch this face! ... on December 4'. Turns out the pioneering social network... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Dec 3, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Elf Yourself Returns for 2009 With Easy Twitter and Facebook Sharing Way back in 2006, OfficeMax introduced Elf Yourself to the world, and it’s been a viral hit ever since. Last year alone, 35 million of virtual... Source: mashable.com Date: Nov 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	How to Avoid Malware on Facebook and Twitter: 8 Best Practices Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Oct 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Launches Virtual Gifts and The Friendster Gift Shop MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Friendster, Inc., a top global web site based on traffic, today announced the launch of virtual gifts... Source: prnewswire.com Date: Oct 28, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0