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Friday, July 20, 2007

Facebook ‘Poke’ Leads to Awkward One-Night Acquisition

Well would you look at that. Facebook has gone and bought itself a company. Yesterday, the nauseatingly overhyped social-networking site made its first acquisition, purchasing (for an undisclosed sum) Parakey, a start-up run by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, the engineering duo who created Firefox.
“Blake and Joe built the Firefox Web browser and then turned [...]

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You Could Have Had a Mega-Yacht or a Tuscan Estate. But You Had to Have That Underground Lair. Well, Look at You Now.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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