Flock is a social media browser that is facing some competition with a new browser called RockMelt. Flock has intensified their competition with RockMelt by increasing the speed of their browser and enhancing its functionality in version 3.5. Flock 3.5′s sidebar has Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn integration and there are link-sharing features built-in.

News Corporation has announced that MySpace President Mike Jones has been promoted to CEO. His replacement will be MySpace Chief People Officer Dustin Finer. Before joining MySpace, Mike Jones founded a company called Userplane and sold it to AOL. Below is the full press release:

In a SecondMarket share auction that took place last week, the end price per share was $20.76 for Facebook. Facebook has about 2.5 billion shares outstanding after a 5-1 stock split earlier this year. Based on the price per share and the outstanding shares, this puts Facebook’s valuation at about $50 billion. This means that Facebook is worth more than Yahoo! and eBay and their value is about 1/4th of Google and Microsoft. Below is an e-mail sent out to buyers on SecondMarket:

Conan O’Brien used the cheap Taiwanese animation idea to show a conflict between himself and sidekick Andy Richter over yogurt [video]. NMA.tv decided to take advantage of their publicity by creating a retaliation video. In the retaliation, it points out that Conan uses a gang of American child labor to do his animatio and that NMA.tv’s lawyers is seizing Conan’s blimp as a payment for intellectual property violations. Watch the video above for a good laugh.

Earlier I wrote about how Vator.tv reported Google had already acquired Groupon for $2.5 billion. It turns out that negotiations are still happening and the price may actually be much higher. If Groupon accepts the acquisition terms, it could be announced as early as this week. But there is still a chance that nothing comes out of the talks. If Groupon does get acquired at this price, this would be Google’s most expensive acquisition to date. Groupon was founded in 2008 and it is the fastest growing Internet company ever.

Japanese telecommunications company Softbank is selling a 16GB Apple iPad for free. The catch is a 25 month contract which costs ¥4725 ($56) per month. The promotion is called “iPad For Everybody.” Based on what I can understand from Google’s Translated version of the website, it sounds like this deal will be between December 3, 2010 and February 28, 2011. [mocoNews]

Google Me, the “Facebook Killer,” project is being pushed back until Spring 2011 according to Mashable. Earlier it was reported that Google was going to release the new product in 2010, but now we won’t see it until at least March 2011. Google Me is a top-secret project being led by Vic Gundotra (pictured above). Google is still focused on integrated social elements within the company’s existing services.

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:PLA)? has announced that they are selling a 250GB hard drive that has every issue between 1953 and 2010. “Why would you let more than 650 of your favorite Playmates celebrate the holidays in a damp garage, stashed under your bed or crowded together in the basement, when you can bring them all together beneath the mistletoe this year?” said Playboy in a statement. The hard drive sells for $300 and has over 650 issues loaded on the device. The hard drive has 200GB of free space in case you want to store some other stuff. Playboy worked with Bondi Digital Publishing on this product. [LA Times]