As social networking services providers like Facebook and MySpace beef up their services to attract users, the battle lines are increasingly being drawn on foreign soil.Facebook and News Corp’s MySpace lead the global market and are making forays abroad, but they are coming up against a host of smaller players staking out local turf.In Japan, Mixi Inc, DeNA Co and other home-grown companies dominate the market.Their strength lies in game offerings — both casual games for users like commuters on trains and hard-core games for serious players at home — as more and more people look for entertainment on social networking sites.
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