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Facebook Names Top 25 fbFund Recipients Seed Fund Helps Entrepreneurs Grow on Facebook Platform and Across the Web with Nearly $2 Million in Grants, as well as Mentorship and Marketing Resources PALO ALTO, Calif., October 15, 2008 – Twenty-five innovators – including PhD candidates in ...
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FRIENDS OF THE BAND - New York Post
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FRIENDS OF THE BAND - New York Post
— nypost.com — Posted: 4:39 am October 17, 2008 Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is plotting a possible push into the... digital-music business in the wake of MySpace's launch of MySpace Music last month. The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of ... (more) FRIENDS OF THE BAND - New York Post

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Facebook Developers | fbFund
— developers.facebook.com — Originality of Concept Does the application introduce a great idea in a new and unexplored area? Market... Is this application targeted to key cohorts or meet compelling market needs? Social/Useful Does the application enable people to interact with each ... (more) Facebook Developers | fbFund

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paidContent:  Facebook Finally Pays Out $2 Million From Its Apps Fund To 25 Developers

Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:  Facebook Fighting Predators, Fostering Startups

Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews:  Top 25 fbFund Recipients Receive $625K Combined

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Facebook Finally Pays Out $2 Million From Its Apps Fund To 25 Developers
paidContent — ... each in grant funding, which will be awarded to five winners selected by Facebook users and the fbFund advisory council in December. This comes as arguably some of the app and widget madness is dying down a bit, as companies and services in the space get weeded out during the downturn, both as a result of, well, just useless services, and also because of no underlying business model in them. Some would argue that means this is the best time to invest in these services… More in the release, including the list of recepients. A good explanation of ...

Facebook Fighting Predators, Fostering Startups
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Today, Facebook announced the 25 recipients of $25,000 each. They’ll receive the money to work on their original, meaningful social apps on Facebook and throughout the Internet on Facebook connect. ...

Top 25 fbFund Recipients Receive $625K Combined
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... “Facebook started fbFund to help seed innovation among a global community of entrepreneurs and to help change the economics of starting a company,” stated Elliot Schrage, VP of Communications, public policy and platform marketing at Facebook. “By refusing to take an equity stake for our grants, we’re making it a little easier for talented entrepreneurs to maintain ownership over their ideas and focus on getting their business off the ground. Given the current caution in the market, we think fbFund is an even more attractive solution for innovative entrepreneurs to create the ...

Facebook Supporting Legislation Fighting Sexual Predators
WebProNews Feed — ... , the fund was supposed to use a fast-track approval process. However, no money had been announced until now. Today, Facebook announced the 25 recipients of $25,000 each. They ll receive the money to work on their original, meaningful social apps on Facebook and throughout the Internet on Facebook connect. The winners: BarTab BlackDrumm Bottle Rocket Check My Campus Daikon Faithfeed Good Call Sports GroupCard Kontagent Koofers Mousehunt Newsbrane PartyBuzz Pongr ProfessionalProfile RealGifts Social Arcade Socialfly Teach the People ...

Facebook Application Grants
dailywireless.org — ... , was one of 25 to be granted money on Oct. 15. They were given $25,000 to develop their platform and turn it into a Facebook application. ...

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