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Are Yahoo! and Facebook "in a relationship"? "It's complicated," The Crimson says...

September 22, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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Cribbing the Wall Street Journal's exclusive yesterday, The Crimson adds some new news to the old Mark Zuckerberg-may-be-very-rich-very-soon storyline. Apparently, Yahoo! isn't the only corporation Facebook is flirting with. To promote its Facebook group, Chase Manhattan Bank gave Harvard freshmen free rides in 10 pedicabs bearing "Chase +1" logos. Apparently, the people at Chase took their focus group a little too literally. "Free ride to college" and "free ride down the street in a pedicab" are not the same thing.

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