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Emily Tan
Oct 7, 2011

MOL’s strategy for Friendster

KUALA LUMPUR – After buying over Friendster, in 2009 Malaysian-based MOL Games promptly surprised the world by scrapping the site’s SNS platform and switching to social gaming on June 28.

Ganesh: Friendster was relaunched with a revenue stream in place

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