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It seems to be a sad fact of business life that if you suddenly make a ton of money, people will crawl out of the woodwork trying to take that money away through various forms of litigation. Facebook’s famously meteoric rise seems to have stirred more than its fair share of lawyered-up pretenders to the Zuckerberg crown, most notably the Winklevoss twins

Vancouver Sun | March 30, 2011 | Mike Swift AUSTIN, Texas – As Facebook evolves from insular Silicon Valley start-up to a global company with a necklace of offices around the …

Google Inc. has today taken the wraps off yet another enhancement to its increasingly diverse services, the +1 button. At its core the +1 button is the same as a Facebook “Like” button, although it can be deployed anywhere on the Web, most importantly in search results.

Forbes | March 24, 2011 | Andy Greenberg If you were visiting Facebook over AT&T’s network earlier this week, your bits may have taken a mysterious path to the site’s …

This week marks Twitter’s fifth birthday. Since it was first launched to the public, the micro-blogging service has noticeably changed the way we broadcast, organise and digest information.

CNET | March 9, 2011 | John Chan According to a report by analytics firm comScore, Internet users in Southeast Asia rely more on Google than the rest of the world. …

AUSTIN-Some argue that there is little to a name, but if any of those people work in the world of the Web, they are very wrong. For companies that use …

Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has …

Forbes | March 7, 2011 | Agustino Fontevecchia Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is soon to be re-deployed as chairman after founder Larry Page takes the reins in April, gave an interview …

BBC News | February 25, 2011 Business networking site LinkedIn says access to its services appears to have been restored in China, a day after it was blocked there. “We …

Bangkok Post | February 23, 2011 | Suchit Leesa-nguansuk With mobile operators moving more toward social networking and chat services, market leader Advanced Info Service (AIS) is introducing new packages …

Bloomberg | February 20, 2011 | Serena Saitto and Brian Womack Renren.com, China’s largest social- networking service, is seeking to capitalize on strengthening demand for the nation’s Internet stocks with a …

Well here’s something to annoy all those Blackberry users out there – Twitter has today suspended the platform’s most popular Twitter client, UberTwitter, as well as Android client Twidroyd and iPhone App UberCurrent.

QuePasa | February 10, 2011 | Press Release WEST PALM BEACH, FL–(Marketwire – February 10, 2011) – Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex:QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and …

Invest in Brazil | February 2, 2011 Quepasa Corporation Tuesday announced it is to acquire Brazil’s XtFt Games S/S Ltda. Quepasa Corporation is the creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the …

It looks as though the long, torrid saga of News Corp and MySpace may finally be coming to an end. News Corp COO Chase Carey has given a long-overdue indication that they are looking to cut-and-run from the flagging social network.

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in …

Myriad Group | 16 December 2010 | Press Release New deal underpins expansion of Myriad-Telefónica 5-year strategic partnership to deliver innovative social networking solutions to more than 140 million customers …

WEST PALM BEACH, FL | Marketwire | December 15, 2010 Popular Social Network for Latino Community Expands Reach of Its Social Media Advertising Platform to More Than 31 Million Latin …

After months of rumours and speculation Facebook finally got round to unveiling their “Project Titan” messaging product yesterday. The new system centres around a unified inbox that deals with your IMs, SMS, email and Facebook messages, so in theory you’ll only have one conversation thread for each of your contacts.

Another day, another swirling internet rumour vortex. Well, we needed something to fill the void now all that Nexus Two business is sorted out, didn’t we? A few months ago we got wind of an internal Facebook product codenamed “Project Titan”, which Facebook apparently refer to as their “GMail killer”.