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Did Facebook Try to Buy German Clone StudiVZ? All Stock Offer

Aug 7, 2008 2:34 PM

We heard this rumor too around the time Facebook sued German clone StudiVZ, but wasn’t sure how much credence to put in it…now IHT is reporting this as well. It cites a source that the U.S. company had been negotiating for months to try to buy StudiVZ, but couldn’t come…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Companies, Facebook, Countries, Europe, Germany, studivz

Updated: Facebook Sues German Knockoff Site StudiVZ; Will Others Follow?

Jul 18, 2008 8:00 PM

Updated below: Facebook has finally started taking action against its knockoff sites, and has first sued the one most easily accessible in terms of regulatory laws: it has filed a copyright lawsuit against StudiVZ, a German social network which looks very similar, and accuses it of “copying the look, feel,…

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Posted In: Legal, Social Media, Companies, Facebook, Countries, Europe, Germany, studivz

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