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Facebook’s M&A Plans

Brian Morrissey 08.24.2011

Facebook has 20-odd acquisitions planned for the next year. It probably won’t have the resources yet to make a blockbuster deal, but pre-IPO buys can be important. Just ask Google about Applied Semantics. Plus: the viral earthquake, social apps’ dependence on email, and Foursquare weathering the Facebook attack.

Silicon Valley Blues

Brian Morrissey 07.14.2011

It should be the best of times in Silicon Valley, but there’s an undercurrent of dissatisfaction that the world’s innovation engine is sputtering. Instead of breakthroughs, it’s spitting out ever more Groupon clones. Plus: Google’s complicated relationship with design, Google+ as content engine and Spotify’s U.S. invasion.

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