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APRIL 29, 2011

Tweet Yesterday it was announced that Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen has acquired the social bookmarking platform Delicious, which has been owned by Yahoo since 2005. The new owners are committed running and improving Delicious going forward.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

When Specific Media Executives, the Vanderhook brothers, last June announced to have acquired MySpace with superstar Justin Timberlake for just $35 million (News Corporation with Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for it back in 2005), the buzz about the new MySpace started to spread.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Tweet Yesterday it was announced that Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen has acquired the social bookmarking platform Delicious, which has been owned by Yahoo since 2005. The new owners are committed running and improving Delicious going forward.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

First of all, Etsy was founded in June 2005. Tweet Still wondering what to get your best friend for Christmas? Stop worrying, and let yourself inspire by a new and interesting initiative by Etsy. What is Etsy?

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JULY 19, 2010

I have found this chart that illustrates Facebook’s evolution of privacy from the early days in 2005 up until recently. During the last couple of years, Facebook’s default privacy settings have become more and more permissive – and often with great confusion to the users.

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JULY 26, 2010

The Indonesian headache reliever brand Dumin was introduced at the market year 2005. In this case it was all about creating a buzz around a name – the name of the brand to be exact. Can a brand become word of mouth within days? For a while ago it had a brand awareness of 0 % despite 2 years of heavy TV campaigning.

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MAY 26, 2011

Tweet 6 years ago, back in May 2005, YouTube was launched and since then it has been revolutionizing the way in which marketing can work virally. YouTube’s first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005. The site was initially opened to beta testers in May 2005 and in October 2006 it was acquired by Google for $1.65bn.

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