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Miss out on our past week of news? With the amount of news that we cover every day it can be hard to keep up! That’s why we’ve compiled the following list of our top stories from the past week. Check out the stories that you may have missed below.
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Google Developing A Rival To Facebook

Though Google hasn’t directly admitted that they are developing their own social network site to rival Facebook, the pieces are starting to fall into place that serve as evidence. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Google is currently in discussion with several online game makers. The goal of these talks would be to develop a social networking site with broader capabailities than Facebook. The expected site would have a much larger variety of abilities than their already existing Google Buzz. Learn more by reading the article here.
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While Facebook didn’t make any major announcements last week, there was plenty of Facebook news to cover. Between new patents published and granted to Facebook and the integration of Facebook Page updated into Google’s real-time search, it was still another big week for the company.
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The past week has been a busy one for Facebook, who made a couple product and partnership announcements. Whether it was the new Paypal integration on the site, Microsoft’s announcement that they’d be integrating Facebook into Outlook, or the company surpassing Yahoo! in traffic, this was a busy week.
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The past week was a busy one for Facebook, however Google clearly stole the show last week with the launch of their new Buzz product. While analysts and bloggers continue to analyze the impact of the new product, it’s clear that the search behemoth is not giving up control of the social web easily. Read about Google’s new attack against Facebook and some of the latest product releases from Facebook over the past week in this week’s roundup.
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Facebook kicked off February with a bang. In addition to announcing a new open source project and other items, Facebook celebrated its birthday in style with the launch of a new homepage and announced further product releases in the near future. With rumors of a new email product from Facebook, excitement around future Facebook product releases is growing.
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This past week has been a relatively slow one news-wise for Facebook. While there were a number of privacy related issues, there weren’t any significant product launches or other major announcements from Facebook. Much of the tech world was abuzz about the new Apple iPad, but we were still covering the latest Facebook news as usual!
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This past week was a fairly big week for Facebook with the Haiti earthquakes and a few new features the service rolled out – most notably, post analytics. Farmville, the most popular Facebook game on the platform, also achieved some new milestones. Here’s a rundown of the biggest Facebook stories from the past week.
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There were several notable stories from the past week regarding Facebook and competitors’ websites. The biggest was the confirmation of Facebook’s traffic record from December – 132 million total U.S. uniques. In addition, competition towards Facebook Connect continued to expand with Google and Twitter taking strides. Here’s a rundown of the biggest stories from the last week.
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While the past week hasn’t been extremely busy for Facebook, the company surpassed some huge milestones to start off the new year. The biggest milestone was becoming the largest site in the U.S. based on unique visitors for the third time on New Year’s day. Last week we highlighted all of the major milestones which Facebook surpassed throughout 2009 and some of the biggest stories. If you want a thorough overview of everything that went on in the world of Facebook last year, definitely check out our first annual “This Year In Facebook“.
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