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myYearbook and Quepasa to combine and rebrand as MeetMe this summer

New Hope-based myYearbook, the student-focused social network that was bought for $100 million last July, is scheduled for a big change.

With its new Hispanic-driven sister social network Quepasa, the pair will be merging the two into one single brand, MeetMe. Their parent company, the publicly-traded Quepasa Corporation, announced the merger Tuesday in a press release.

North America’s myYearbook and Latin America’s Quepasa will both run on the myYearbook platform, which the company says is the more advanced of the two. Both sites are social discovery platforms designed to help people meet others online by playing online games.


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Human Network Labs working on mobile social networking products at Enterprise Center

Human Network Labs CEO Carlos Garcia with interns Shu Wen Yang and Natalie Chew.

This story is completed in partnership with Temple University’s journalism capstone class Philadelphia Neighborhoods. Students Tracy Galloway and Maria Zankey will cover technology issues through December.

In the basement of the Enterprise Center, located at 45th and Market streets in West Philadelphia, Shu Wen Yang and Natalie Chew are working on a new technology that could transform the meaning of social networking.

Yang and Chew are interning for Human Network Labs, a company that has developed a new technology for localizing persons and objects without the use of the Internet.

“Human Network Labs has come up with its own technology and it is something really different from other companies that I’ve seen so far,” said Yang.

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