By Raja Murthy

MUMBAI - Over 48 hours after a London tabloid, News of the World, sensationally exposed an apparent multi-billion dollar global match-fixing racket with international cricketers, an older sub-continental game started to re-run a soap opera, one starring corruption as villain returning in different guises.

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Google Acquires Social Gaming Company SocialDeck

Lending more credence to the rumor that Google is zeroing in on social networking, the search engine giant this week purchased social gaming company SocialDeck – its fifth acquisition this month.

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