Google made another play for the social networking space Friday with its acquisition of Slide, which makes games, applications and widgets for websites such as Facebook and MySpace.The San Francisco developer provides free apps that Facebook users can install on their profiles in order to play simple games with friends or to arrange photo slide shows.Slide’s SuperPoke application and its animal-centric variations, for example, are a family of well loved social games with which players can virtually hug friends or raise a pet pig. A feature similar to Slide’s Top Friends was eventually implemented by Facebook into every profile, allowing users to rank online buddies.
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Google acquires social games and apps maker Slide
August 6th, 2010 
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October 28th, 2009 Before You Invest THE operators of a mobile phone text scam that preyed on the desperate and dateless were yesterday slammed with $15.8million in fines for breaching anti-spam laws. The fine, from Queensland’s Federal Court, makes the operators — who posted fake personals profiles on dating websites to harvest mobile phone numbers and lure men to pay up to $5 per message for SMS sex chat services — the recipients of Australia’s largest spam penalty.It trumped the West Australian Federal Court’s October 2006 imposition of $5.5m in fines against email marketing company Clarity1, of which $1m was levied against managing director Wayne Mansfield.It was also the first time the Australian Communications and Media Authority had taken legal action over SMS spam.By Andrew Colley
Interactive Data Helps ETF.com Expand Its Services for Financial Planners and Investors
April 14th, 2009 Before You Invest Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Managed Solutions business has developed a series of enhancements for ETF.com, a leading Web site that offers sophisticated research for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed on U.S.
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