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This page highlights some landmarks in the ecquaintance industry.

     1998

YouthStream acquires Sixdegrees.com for US$125m

     1999

Yahoo! acquires Geocities for US$5bn

     2002

Reunion.com acquires HighSchoolAlumni.com from IGN (then Snowball) and PlanetAlumni.com - combined membership of 6.7 million users

     2004

Reunion.com acquires GoodContacts

United Online buys Classmates.com

     2005

News Corporation acquires MySpace for US$580m

United Online buys photo-sharing service PhotoSite

Yahoo! acquires site Flickr for US$30m

ITV plc acquires Friends Reunited for £120m

     2006

Reunion.com Acquires MyAddressBook.com

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