The game is over, and Friendster lost.
Facebook Gives Away iTunes
Facebook is going give away 10 million iTunes music samplers over the next 10 weeks.
Kent State Sports Says No To Facebook
Student-athletes at Kent State University will have to remove their profiles from Facebook or risk losing their scholarships. The first question that comes to mind is “Why just student-athletes?”
Facebook Gets $25MM In Funding
The hits just keep on coming. Facebook has landed an additional $25MM in funding, and Bambi Francisco is reporting that the pre-money valuation of Facebook was $525MM.
Facebook Sees $25M From Greylock
Venture capital funding provided by Greylock Partners and other firms totaling $25 million placed a value of $525 million on Facebook, which reportedly turned down $750 million from Viacom.
Facebook + (No PR) = Car Crash
Facebook is an interesting phenomenon. It’s a college-only social network — oh, wait, college (but no junior colleges, and still some ignored colleges) and select high schools and some 8th grades — that is supposed to connect college students that are on the same campus, and then extend that to other friends on other campuses, so you get the Breck shampoo effect (tell two friends, they tell two friends …).
Facebook Seeking Faces Of Presidents
Preferably Benjamins, and lots of them, as the college and high school networking site could rake in $2 billion from a sale; Viacom has been suggested as one suitor, but we can suggest another deep-pocketed company too.
Blue Hen Breaks Facebook Policy
Users of the popular Facebook college and high school networking site may not create accounts under fake names, and a reporter with the University of Delaware Review caught one school administration staffer doing just that.
Facebook Users Stick It To The Man
Campus police have been using Facebook to track down on-campus parties, but some students decided to turn Facebook against their tormentors with a prank that got big-time media coverage.