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Viacom sets its sights on Bebo
What do you do when you're a huge media conglomerate and the huge media conglomerate across the street owns the biggest social networking site in town? You buy the next biggest social networking site in town, of course! Okay, so Bebo isn't actually the second-biggest social networking site in the U.S. (that would be Facebook, according to Hitwise), but it's pretty darn huge, and in a move mirroring News Corp.'s acquisition of MySpace, Viacom is considering a Bebo buyout. Last year Viacom lost to News Corp. in the $580 million bidding war for MySpace, and according to the Financial Times, "Viacom has approached Bebo but its plans are at a very early stage." Bebo reportedly turned down a recent offer from U.K. telecom conglomerate BT Group to the tune of $550 million.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
