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Honestly wants to be Yelp for professionals
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User ID privacy breach on Facebook confirmed
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Funding roundup – week ending 10/15/10
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SeatGeek raises $550,000 and secures WSJ deal
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Involver ingests $8 million Series C round
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Skype 5.0 and Facebook are now friends
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Bing brings in Facebook data to fight Google
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