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Text size [+][-]  Tuesday February 9 2010GLOBAL EDITION

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24 Sep 2007 22:33

New Facebook of battle

By Rob Cox  AND  Jeff Segal

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It implies the social networker’s users are worth three times what Google paid for YouTube’s eyeballs and Ebay paid for Skype’s earlobes. But in a land grab, even the Internet’s wacky metrics are meaningless. As with the sale of an AOL stake years ago, this is about territory.

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