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Forget the search wars, forget real-time, forget Twitter, there is only one real battle for the web right now and it’s between Facebook and Google. What’s more interesting is that Facebook seems to be winning. This battle, to be the web’s identity provider, pits Facebook Connect against Google Friend Connect and, while Google can still boast the wider adoption, it’s the former that wining the major customers. Now, one year after being launched, Facebook is revealing some impressive stats attesting to the program’s success. 
Friendster, the social network which set things off more than half a decade ago has finally been sold after several attempts in the past years. As expected, the social network was snatched up by an Asian company, MOL Global, a Malaysian e-commerce and payments company for an unreported sum which some put at about $100 million. MOL Global will take over 100 percent ownership of Friendster and hopes to bolster the social network’s position in the Asia-Pacific region where it’s a very strong player dominating the market. 
AOL is on the verge of a long-awaited spin-off from Time Warner and will officially begin trading as an independent company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) later today. Shares have already begun trading, but AOL will officially be on its own in a few hours as the market opens. It’s been a crazy decade for the company which was its worth drop massively, but it’s now looking at the future and growth as content company with its eyes set on every niche market possible. 
Microsoft is pouring huge amounts of money into online search and it finally looked like it was paying off after it launched Bing last summer as the search engine was slowly picking up momentum though it was still far behind Google and even Yahoo. The latest numbers from Hitwise though show, once again, that there’s no stopping Google, the search engine grew in market share in the US by 1 percent from October to November, not a whole lot but more than Bing has managed in several months. What’s more, Microsoft’s search engine actually took a small dive in market share in the previous month. 