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Released: May 24, 2010

Rivals seize on privacy troubles of Facebook

Source: Jenna Wortham, New York Times (Free Registration)

t sounds like a kamikaze mission: an upstart with a meager number of users and no capital squaring off against Facebook, a social networking juggernaut with more than 400 million members and a $15 billion valuation.

But despite those odds, a handful of start-ups are eyeing the social networking industry with renewed interest.

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