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1up.com - Mon Nov 9, 2:38 pm ET
Electronic Arts has acquired social games firm Playfish, broadening a casual gaming portfolio that already includes The Sims' Maxis. Based in London, the firm has become known for their Facebook, MySpace and iPhone games like 'Who Has The Biggest Brain?' "Social gaming, with its emphasis on friends and community, is seeing tremendous growth and this is the right time to invest to strengthen our ...
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The Mac Observer - Mon Nov 9, 2:36 pm ET
Electronic Arts on Monday announced its acquisition of Playfish, a social games developer known for Pet Society and Country Story on Facebook, along with other games available on MySpace, Bebo, Android, and Google. The company has one title in the App Store, Who Has the Biggest Brain? a brain training game.
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Missoulian - Mon Nov 9, 6:39 pm ET
A St. Ignatius man faces felony charges for trying to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he contacted through a MySpace Internet conversation.
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Mon Nov 9, 1:01 pm ET
GEORGE WEST — She has given up countless hours of television or time whittled away on teenage staples such as MySpace. Between school, extracurricular activities and volunteer work her only moments of downtime are the many vacations she has donated to her church youth group. And 17-year-old Hillary Sellman wouldn’t have it any other way. “When I was little, my mom used to tell me that giving ...
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LAist - Mon Nov 9, 3:45 pm ET
Band of Horses will be performing tonight at Club Nokia | Picture via Band of Horses Myspace Our Pick: Band of Horses, Warpaint @ Club Nokia Tonight London-based electronic singer-songwriter Imogen Heap will be performing to a sold-out crowd at Henry Fonda Music Box . Local indie rockers the Happy Hollows (LAist Review , #2 , #3 ) are continuing their month-long residency at Spaceland . And ...
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Chicagoist - Mon Nov 9, 3:34 pm ET
Photo by Matthew Rodgers from the band’s MySpace page Most folks are familiar with The Meat Puppets ' hit "Backwater," but those in the know are more familiar with the band's more out-there sonic explorations across sun-bleached desserts and murky swamp haze. The group splintered in the early '90s after Cris Kirkwood left the band due to drug problems, leaving his brother Kurt Kirkwood to ...
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Rome News-Tribune - Mon Nov 9, 3:14 pm ET
A scheduled speech at Georgia Highlands College by Tina Meier, whose 13-year-old daughter Megan committed suicide following online bullying on MySpace, has been postponed. The speeches were to be h...
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Chicagoist - Mon Nov 9, 3:04 pm ET
The late, great Jerry Fuchs. Photo via The Juan Maclean's MySpace. It is with heavy hearts that music fans mourn the tragic weekend loss of drummer and all around loved guy, Jerry Fuchs. Fuchs lent his percussive talents to a long list of bands over his career including Maserati , Turing Machine , !!! and The Juan Maclean . Gothamist were the among the first to break the news that the drummer ...
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Phillyist - Mon Nov 9, 2:54 pm ET
Photo by Flickr user sujohndas Phillyist's quick-picks for your evening agenda. Perhaps the most-hyped thing in music right now, aside from Them Crooked Vultures , is the aptly-named Monsters of Folk ( MySpace ) collaboration of Conor Oberst , M. Ward , Mike Mogis , and My Morning Jacket 's Jim James . The Monsters will be at the Academy of Music (Broad & Locust) tonight. The Academy has also ...
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redOrbit - Fri Nov 6, 3:01 pm ET
News Corp is seeking to make major changes to MySpace, its once dominant social networking site.News Corp purchased MySpace in 2005, when the social networking site was at the top of its competitors.
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Adrenaline Vault - Mon Nov 9, 2:15 pm ET
Electronic Arts Inc. has snapped up Playfish Inc., the creator of popular social networking games such as Who Has the Biggest Brain and Pet Society, for $275 million in cash. With the acquisition, EA dives further into the world of social online games, which tens of millions of people play on Facebook, MySpace, and the [...]
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Indiana's NewsCenter - Fri Nov 6, 6:00 pm ET
CHURUBUSCO, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) - Two local teens are suing their school district and principal after they were punished for posting racy pictures of themselves on MySpace.
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ClickZ - Mon Nov 9, 11:05 am ET
Google loses mobile search account to Yahoo; R/GA adds Longden for analytics role; Rubicon snags sales execs from MySpace and FIM.
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WebProNews - Fri Nov 6, 11:45 am ET
Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Causes is an excellent application that makes the process of raising and donating money for a ...
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Computerworld - Fri Nov 6, 6:56 am ET
IDG News Service - Due to incorrect information provided by MySpace, the ninth paragraph of the update to the story "Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace" posted Thursday incorrectly characterized the data that MySpace said was not exposed.