Adding to rumors of Google building a competitor to Facebook, the search company has reportedly purchased Slide, an application and games developer for social networks, for $182 million. Founded in 2005, Slide employs some 125 workers across its headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Shanghai and Bandung, Indonesia. Its Facebook and MySpace games and apps, which include titles such as SuperPoke! and Slide FunSpace, attract roughly 27 million unique users each month. The acquisition, …

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Report: Google Acquires Social Dev Slide For $182 Million