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Rumor: Facebook Acquiring Plaxo?

Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo, we’ve just heard from a source. Wow, starting your story with that sentence certainly grabs your attention, doesn’t it? VentureBeat’s managed to make a statement of "fact" without actually saying that it has confirmed the story. Nice!

Rumor: Google Looking to Buy Yell?

Of late there's been speculation that Google's going to buy Yell, whether or not this is true only time will tell. Yell is an international directories business which operates in the classified advertising market in the UK, USA, Spain and Latin America.

News Corp-LinkedIn Acquisition Rumors Myth?

So perhaps the News Corp-LinkedIn acquisition rumors are a myth anyway: Link: TechCrunch UK � Blog Archive � Who needs LinkedIn when you have MySpace?.

Google Maybe Could Possibly Buy Skype

Or not. Give Jemima Kiss at the Guardian credit for knowing how to toss some linkbait out there. Rumor has it Google is negotiation to buy eBay's mistake.

What's Interesting In eBusiness & Search?

I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds in order to keep up with the world we cover here at WebProNews... eBusiness and search. Here are some of the more interesting blog posts and news articles from around the web.

WordPress Overtakes TypePad

If this were a car race, TypePad would now be seeing WordPress’s taillights; Automattic’s creation just passed its competitor in terms of traffic.

Internal AdWords Tool Raises Rumors About Rankings

A post by French blog Zorgloob has raised a flurry of rumors about Google organic rankings being influenced by Google AdWords advertising. Zorgloob posted screenshots from an internal Google tool that assigns scores and classifications to Google's organic listings raising questions about the way the Google SERPs are determined.

Facebook Rumors: SocialAds, Liars & Snooping

Just one week until the engraved-invitation-event (oh, if only I were one of the cool kids!) and Facebook rumors are flying at only about the same rate as usual. Not so good for Facebook: many of the stories aren’t so positive. Is the media darling falling on hard times?

Facebook, BlackBerry Join Forces

Combine an addictive device - the BlackBerry - with a popular social network - Facebook - and what do you get?  I’m not sure I want to know, but thanks to a new development, we’re about to find out.

A Long Way to Go for Microsoft

It was just a few weeks ago that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was downplaying Facebook’s originality and value—but now he’s bowing to a ‘higher power.’