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Currensee, a social network for foreign exchange traders, has raised $6 million more in funding. On Currensee, users link their brokerage accounts to their profiles, so that they can share trades and foreign exchange positions. They can also track the trades and positions of “trading friends” in real-time. The funding round was led...

Facebook has bought up under-the-radar Octazen Solutions, in what the company says is a “small talent acquisition.” Facebook’s statement: “We’ve admired the engineering team’s efforts for some time now and this is part of our ongoing effort to add experienced, accomplished technical talent.”

Octazen describes itself on its website as a “webmail...

Graphic.ly, which offers a digital content delivery platform for print comics book publishers, has purchased 10-year-old online comics book community iFanboy. Terms of the acquisition were not announced, although in a message on his site iFanboy co-founder Josh Flanagan says, “We are most emphatically not...

Despite making significant changes to its Buzz social networking service (and apologizing), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) still can’t shake the ire of privacy critics. The Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Frontier Foundation has now filed a complaint with the FTC over Buzz, asking the FTC to step in and require...

Gannett-backed Cozi, which offers a set of online organization tools geared for families, has raised another $5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. On Cozi, families can set up group calendars, shopping lists, and blogs. The ad-supported site claims 2.4 million registered users, up from 600,000 two years...

In its four days of existence, Google’s Buzz has come under attack for exposing information about user’s Gmail contacts on the web. But while the company is taking steps to fix privacy loopholes, it is not going to separate Gmail from Buzz, contrary to an earlier report...

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems intent on making a big entry into the social games space. The company announced a week ago that it would bring titles from social game giant Zynga to its online properties, including MSN and Windows Live Messenger, and now Bloomberg reports that Microsoft...

LikeMe, an online service that provides personalized recommendations, has raised $3.1 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. On LikeMe, users enter basic information about themselves and can then rate various establishments and events; when users search for a recommended thing to do, LikeMe returns a list of results...

Not to be left out of the social spotlight, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is making a few social announcements of its own. The company says that users of AOL Mail will now be able to view and send status updates on sites like Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter from within...

Not to be left out of the social spotlight, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is making a few social announcements of its own. The company says that users of AOL Mail will now be able to view and send status updates on sites like Facebook, Digg, and Twitter from within their inboxes...

iFollo, a site that lets members share stories about their run-ins with celebrities, has raised $1 million in a funding round from real estate investor Robert Trump, who is also a backer of game publisher ZeniMax Media. On iFollo, anybody can post an anecdote about meeting a celebrity and rate...

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is trying once again to make a social play with the introduction of a new service that makes it easy for users of its products to post and share updates online. A new tab in Gmail, called ‘Buzz,’ which will roll out over the next several days, lets users...