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Aug 20, 2009 12 min

Underreported: The Facebook Empire

from Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show Hosted by New York Public Radio, WNYC

Last week, Facebook quietly bought FriendFeed, a platform that keeps track of just about everything you do online. On this week’s second Underreported, Chadwick Matlin, staff reporter for Slate’s TheBigMoney.com, explains what the social networking site hopes to gain by buying FriendFeed. Read Chadwick Matlin's article about the purchase of FriendFeed here, and his article on Facebook's new collaboration with the Huffington Post here.

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