Facebook, Google, Groupon, and Twitter led all companies in private acquisitions in 2012

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For the first time ever, a private company has placed in the top 10 most active acquirers of businesses.

In 2012, 2,357 private technology companies were bought for a combined total of $84 billion, according to a new report from research firm PrivCo. That's up 22 percent from 2011, but the real surprise is who is doing the acquiring.

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There's a trend here, "can you see what it is yet?"

Small businesses turn to LinkedIn, overlooking Twitter and Facebook - Brafton

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LinkedIn is gaining ground, now home to 200 million monthly active users, and small businesses are taking advantage.

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SMBs perceive LinkedIn as most beneficial social media tool ...

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A survey of small business CEOs by The Wall Street Journal and Vistage International found that LinkedIn is perceived as being the most beneficial social media tool.

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CEO's network on LinkedIn - where there's a lot of action and a little less "white noise"

Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar "Graph Search" That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google

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Today at Facebook's press event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced its latest product, called Graph Search.

Two of the members of the Graph Search team, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, were very high up at Google. Facebook is calling it a "Dream Team."

Zuckerberg made it very clear that this is not web search, but completely different:

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It looked like an also ran, but I don't think everyone has grasped this yet. I'm going to let the dust settle before I tell you why I think this is a possible game changer for Facebook. I also want to see how they roll it out. I see real potential here, along the same lines as why LinkedIn is succeeding in making increasing profits where others are falling. There's more we need to know first, but this has potential.