New decade for social networking or another bubble? - GuruFocus.com

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New decade for social networking or another bubble?
GuruFocus.com
Social networking websites has received a lot of extremely high valuation currently. LinkedIn, “world's largest professional network”, is currently valued of as much as $8.9 billion. It implies a multiple of 29.12 P/S, P/B is 400 times and the P/E ...
MySpace founder admits he "choked" his social media visionThe Drum
Technology with Peter BlackABC Online (blog)
Is MySpace a Warning for Social Media Investors?Wall St. Cheat Sheet
CNN International (blog) -Seeking Alpha -SmartCompany.com.au
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Reliance ADAG's BigAdda to venture into e-commerce - Rediff

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Reliance ADAG's BigAdda to venture into e-commerce
Rediff
Reliance ADA Group-promoted social networking and blogging site BigAdda is planning to close its social networking business. The website will now be repositioned as an e-commerce portal such as eBay. In a communication to its subscribers, BigAdda said ...
BigAdda Closes Social Network; Shifts To E-Commerce ModelVC Circle
Popular Indian site BigAdda closing social networking features, pivots to E ...AddPR.com (press release)
Bigadda ceases social media opsIndiantelevision.com

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Social media trends to watch in 2012 - Eye For Travel

CPI Financial

Social media trends to watch in 2012
Eye For Travel
Companies are increasingly winning new customers via social networks 2. Businesses in the UK allocate a third of their marketing budgets to social networking campaigns 3. Globally, the number of businesses recruiting new customers via social networks ...
Offline habits affected by social networking activityMediaTel Newsline
Clicks, Likes, Tweets and Tumbles: Who Rules on Maryland Social Media?Patch.com

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Buying By Ballot: New VoteItNow! iPhone App Enables Comparison Shopping Via ... - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Buying By Ballot: New VoteItNow! iPhone App Enables Comparison Shopping Via ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
iPhone app allows users to instantly search products and post them to their social networking platforms for friend and follower feedback. In just a few minutes, VoteItNow! users will be able to see their social networks 'like' or 'dislike' products, ...

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Belarus 'blocks networking sites' - BBC News

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Belarus 'blocks networking sites'
BBC News
Last month, about 1000 people gathered in Minsk to take part in a "silent protest" over the economic crisis organised via social networking sites. In December 2010, authorities cracked down on protests against alleged vote-rigging in the general ...
Tear gas fired and websites blocked as Belarus protesters are targetedCanada Views
Belarus thwarts opposition protests on national dayTimes of Malta
Belarus violently breaks up opposition protestAFP
Social Barrel -The Associated Press -The Voice of Russia
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2011 sees businesses in the Gulf using social media to win new business - Al-Bawaba

Al-Bawaba

2011 sees businesses in the Gulf using social media to win new business
Al-Bawaba
Regus found that 50% of firms in the Gulf were successfully winning new customers through business social networking activity. The research also reveals that globally more firms are also using social media to connect and engage with existing customers ...
Social networking is an important medium in winning new businessManchester Evening News
Firms boosted by social networkingYorkshire Post
Gulf says tweet upZawya (subscription)

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Japan's Youngest Billionaire Considers Gree Overseas Listing Amid IPO Boom - Bloomberg

Penn Olson

Japan's Youngest Billionaire Considers Gree Overseas Listing Amid IPO Boom
Bloomberg
Tanaka set up Gree in 2004 as a social networking service. Two years later, KDDI Corp. (9433), Japan's second-largest mobile-phone operator, decided to invest in Gree to expand its game business. KDDI owns 7 percent of Gree shares, while Tanaka ...
Japan's Youngest Billionaire May List Gree OverseasWashington Post

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Facing up to social networks - Irish Times

Irish Times

Facing up to social networks
Irish Times
Some 35 hands went up, even though only about four of the children had reached the permissible age to sign up with the social networking site. The rest had passed themselves off as teenagers by lying about their date of birth – either with or without ...

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