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Facebook-Funded Sociable Labs Helps Retailers Be More Friendly

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 26, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Sociable Labs, which helps retailers integrate Facebook’s social graph into the shopping experience, comes out of beta today with a handful of brand-name customers.

Liveblogging the Unveiling of the SFund at Facebook (With Guest Stars: Kleiner, Amazon and Zynga)

Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2010 at 10:44 am PT

BoomTown had to park a badillion miles away from Facebook’s suburban HQ in Palo Alto, and hoofed it there for a press event that unveiled the sFund. What’s that? A $250 million fund for social start-ups. Party on.

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Facebook-Focused Start-Ups Pitch Wares to VCs

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 2, 2009 at 11:03 am PT

About two dozen companies building applications on Facebook went fishing for cash from Silicon Valley investors on Tuesday. The companies, ranging from music discovery software to mobile virtual worlds, have all received a small amount of funding from Facebook’s fbFund, a $10 million seed fund that Facebook and two of its backers–Accel Partners and Founders Fund–dole out annually.