Facebook Settles Patent Suit with Yahoo (FB, YHOO)

Social networking giant Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) settled a patent infringement suit with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). The two companies also said that they have entered into definitive agreements to launch a new advertising partnership, and extend and expand distribution agreements.

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Facebook Starts Placing Ads on Zynga (FB, ZNGA)

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has started placing ads on Zynga Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ZNGA) website. The move is the latest effort from the social networking giant in last few weeks to add revenue sources following its disappointing initial public offering.

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How Will Salesforce.com’s Purchase of Buddy Media affect Facebook?


Salesforce.com is all set to buy Buddy Media for a rumored $800 Million. Salesforce supposedly beat Google in the bidding. This deal follows Oracle’s recent purchase of Vitrue for $300 Million dollars. These two deals are great for all the companies operating in this space (Involver, Wildfire, AppAddictive) Companies that offer a suite of applications for Facebook publishing, Facebook page management, and Facebook ad campaign management stand to benefit the most. Among the independent enterprise Facebook platforms, only AppAddictive has all the components – Pages, Publishing and Facebook Ads API access.
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