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Facebook Acquires Mobile Advertising Company Out of Stealth Mode

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 25, 2011 at 9:26 am PT

Facebook has acquired Rel8tion and the employees of the nine-month-old Seattle-based start-up, which has been working under the radar to develop a hyper-local mobile advertising service.

MySpace Finishes Its AcqHire of iLike: Don’t Think Music, Think “Socialization of Content.” Plus! The Internal Memo.

Peter Kafka in Media on August 19, 2009 at 1:19 pm PT

Now that MySpace has finished its acquisition of iLike, what is it going to do with it? Don’t think music, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta stressed in a press conference today, think about “socialization of content.” What does that mean? It means the social network has spent $19.5 million on engineering talent to help overhaul its site.

A Techtastically Busy Week: A Grab Bag of Digital Stuff to Consider

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2009 at 6:31 am PT

It’s another packed week for tech, especially in Silicon Valley, where the kibitzing never ends and the econalypse is almost completely ignored. As if you did not have enough to do, what with all that pointless tweeting, here are some choices for those who want a little analog action, including watching me annoy Facebook’s chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, who is also trying to become California’s next Attorney General.