Google Buys Social Games Start-Up SocialDeck - MyFox Phoenix
(NewsCore) - Google bought social games start-up SocialDeck, the latest in a series of acquisitions aimed at helping the Internet search giant build a social networking service to compete with Facebook. The

Google Friday buys: Angstro Social - Fortune Tech
The tools and personaell pickup is yet another one in its Social buying Frenzie. I don't think a Friday has gone by this summer without Google (GOOG) announcing a pickup of some sort, mostly related to social

Google Acquires Angstro for Social Networking Talent - Black Web 2.0
In a post on Angstro’s blog, Rohit Khare bids farewell to his users. He has decided to sell the company to Google and work with them on Google Me. While the Google Me project is still unconfirmed, Khare has

Seniors jump into social networking scene - Inside Bay Area
Just a few short years ago, Facebook was the exclusive province of postmillennial college undergraduates. Well, move over. The Woodstock generation -- and their parents -- are moving in. The phenomenal growth

Social Networking Surges For Seniors - WBUR
Grandma is posting a photo on Facebook. Grandpa is looking for former colleagues on LinkedIn. And more and more people over 50 are joining social networks, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center's Internet

Google Gobbles Another Pseudo Swedish Social Startup Ångströ - ebrandz.com
Mountain View, California -- The Internet search engine giant Google, striving to counter the growth of Facebook, continues to determinedly pursue social-networking capabilities, this time with the acquisition of Palo

Google Acquires Angstro, a Social Networking Start-Up - New York Times Blogs
Google continues to expand its social expertise with the acquisition of Angstro , a small social networking start-up. Angstro builds apps to easily exchange information among social services across the Web

Survey: Older folks flocking to social-networking sites - Arizona Daily Star
ORLANDO, Fla. - Ruth Roseboom checks her Facebook page at least once a day. The 78-year-old grandmother from Celebration, Fla., has 40 Facebook friends and likes to see what they are up to at any given time

College-Only Social Network Debuts in the Ivy League - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Josh Weinstein, a 2009 graduate of Princeton University, remembers waiting eagerly for his official college e-mail address the summer before freshman year. An address ending in .edu would give him access to Facebook, an

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