Facebook's Ongoing Clone Battle

Last week Facebook announced that it was suing StudiVZ, the German based copycat for running a “knock-off” version of the Facebook site. That comes a few months after the company launched in German. That’s not the only country that Facebook faces stiff competition from cloned social networks. In China, Xiaonei is the leading Facebook copycat and they have a massive war chest after receiving over $430 million in investments.

An AP article today highlighted a number of other clones that are competing against Facebook.

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