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Fast Company
May 1, 2007 |
A Cautionary Tale Rumors of Facebook's refusal to sell to Yahoo set off a chorus of predictions that it would repeat Friendster's fall from grace.   |
InternetNews
October 3, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Friendster Hitches Onto Facebook Platform Social-networking pioneer Friendster is striking an agreement with rival Facebook to roll out support for Facebook's developer standard. |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Pioneering Social Network Friendster Finds Buyer A Malaysian online payment firm will purchase Silicon Valley-based Friendster, which boasts over 100 million members worldwide. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Kent Lindstrom, President, Friendster Has Friendster's time come and gone, or will its desire to be the 'young-adult social network' pay off? |
InternetNews
September 1, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Patents Become a 'Social' Problem Social media - photos, blogs, networks and tags - is all about sharing. But social media startups don't want to share their intellectual property. Instead, they're heading to the patent office. |
InternetNews
March 7, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Friendster Google Searches For Profitability Social network Friendster today announced a multi-year deal that makes Google the exclusive provider of search and advertising for the one-time market leader. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007 |
Social-Networking Crossover As you might expect, there is a lot of crossover among visitors to social-networking sites. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Thanks for the Ad, MySpace News Corp.'s leading social networking site has its eyes on the search engine marketing prize. |
InternetNews
February 26, 2010 |
Facebook Lands Patent for News Feed Facebook is awarded patent for news feed activity stream, potentially giving it a monopoly on the technology behind an essential feature on dozens of sites across the social Web. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Wide-Open Spaces As rivals' blog services add social networks, should MySpace worry? |
Inc.
June 2007
Max Chafkin |
How to Kill a Great Idea! Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. What went wrong? |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp. Plays It Safe Will an ad campaign focused on Internet safety for teens save MySpace from bad PR? Given the here-today, gone-tomorrow elements of social networking, it's likely not going to be an easy tightrope to walk. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Closing Its Facebook? Yahoo! apparently tires of wooing the college-based social networking site. One site could use a sugar daddy, and the other could use the high-profile real estate. The deal still makes sense. Time will tell whether it makes dollars and cents, too. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2008
Sean Gallagher |
Doubts Loom Over MySpace Music Strategy How much headway can even MySpace make against an entrenched iTunes? |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Steve Rosenbush |
Hey, Come To This Site Often? MySpace's networking portal has a cool factor MSN and Yahoo! can't match. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
The Social Network Difference People use social networks to stay in touch and share media. But what makes people choose one over another? |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Baby Breaker Birth Announcements We track the week in private equity in search of investments of the future: Microsoft's Wallop... Exelixis... |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
A Nation of Searchers Search sites in general, and Google in particular, are growing rapidly. This past year has also seen significant growth in MySpace and other Internet communities. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Deny the Friend Request, Yahoo! Yahoo! shouldn't overpay for MySpace. Yahoo! is in a tough spot. Investors saw through the featherweight executive shakeup. The stock popped at the open, but closed lower. |
InternetNews
April 5, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo 'Faced' in Social Network Indecision? A report says Yahoo should have bought Facebook when it had the chance. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
MySpace's Safety Dance Will News Corp. stumble and fall as it tries to bolster safety on MySpace? |
InternetNews
October 12, 2009 |
Facebook Market Share Soars Nearly 200% Twitter is trending north, too, according to latest Hitwise data. |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
Dan Costa |
My Space Is Not Your Space Facebook decided to expand its focus and invite users of all ages to join the fray. Bad idea. The company is killing the originality of its community. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Friendster 'AGlo' For VoIP Social networking site Friendster has struck a deal with Voice over IP provider Voiceglo in order to offer the IP telephony service to millions of the site's users. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Google Shakes Up Social Networking Rather than designing a social network, and then adding some useful content (think Facebook or MySpace), Google is approaching networking from the other side. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Microsoft Into Social Networking, Too Social networking company Wallop is the fruit of Microsoft's IP Ventures program, which the company uses to connect its R&D department to the venture capitalist community. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2010
Fixmer & Grover |
For MySpace, a Fresh Coat of Paint MySpace unveiled a sleeker new look on Oct. 27 that puts the emphasis on entertainment and celebrities rather than friends. |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Yahoo!: Get Out of My Space The Internet giant gets miffed over headlines that say MySpace was No. 1. Yahoo! investors probably shouldn't worry too much. The company is still innovating, even if it gets less attention than Google or MySpace in the process. |
The Motley Fool
July 3, 2011
Sean Williams |
This Is What Really Killed MySpace These three factors may have been the reason the service folded under pressure. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2007
David Needle |
Google's OpenSocial Gets MySpace Endorsement Facebook rival MySpace throws in with the search leader's social networking API effort. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Yahoo! the New Facebook? Yahoo! is reportedly kicking off a new ad campaign that focuses on the site's customized features. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
From 'Friends' to Friendster CEO For Sassa New business model coming to social networking play? |
InternetNews
December 9, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
MySpace Escalates Social Web's Openness Arms Race On the heels of Facebook's latest moves, MySpace debuts a rebranded data portability effort with Google's support. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Amazon Gets Patents on Consumer Reviews Amazon was awarded three new patents, covering its purchase circles, search and consumer reviews. |
InternetNews
July 31, 2009 |
New MySpace Mail Goes Global MySpace beginning worldwide roll-out of souped-up e-mail client, hopes to become second-largest Webmail provider. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Ariel Bleicher |
Social Networking: Friended Bandwidth, digital cameras, and a hunger for connectedness have created a virtual dinner party |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2011
Aditi Baid |
War of the Web Giants Some people believe that what Google did to Microsoft years ago is exactly what Facebook might be doing to Google right now. |
InternetNews
July 14, 2009 |
Facebook Rules in Time Spent Online Facebook leads the pack in the time users spend at the site, according to Nielsen Online. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Revolt of The Facebook Elite The social network grew as a site for students at elite colleges. Now Facebook is expanding its registration. Users aren't happy. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
How Social Networks Became Useful Think social networks hit it big this year because of meeting a litany of people online? Think again. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Confirmed: Microsoft and Facebook Friendship Microsoft is now the exclusive provider of brand advertising and sponsored links on the Facebook social network of more than 9 million registered users. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
MySpace Has to Facebook the Music If you're MySpace, how do you get your groove back? If you're Facebook, how do you make sure you keep growing? |
Search Engine Watch
January 22, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service Google has quietly launched a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp. Seeks Online Job Security Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. takes a stake in an employment-related search engine. Whether News Corp.'s cash infusion in Simply Hired will be money well spent is debatable, but shareholders should expect more of the same. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2011
Aditi Baid |
News Corp. to Sell MySpace; Good Riddance News Corp. plans to sell off MySpace in the face of its dismal performance and increasing losses. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2008
Susan Kuchinskas |
Facebook: We're Not Focused on Making Money Facebook, the fast-growing consumer social networking site, doesn't need money, its CEO said at the Web 2.0 Summit. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Deal Bails Out MySpace With Google on board, can MySpace's advertising revenues finally rise with the tide? |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Flashes Its Cash Is Google about to get mugged on MySpace? It's clear that Google's paying out the nose to shore up its search leadership and build the highest-profile, most lucrative search deals. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Next Social to Deny Mr. Softy News Corp.'s popular website, MySpace, is the latest dot-com heavy to lend its support to Google's OpenSocial platform for social-networking sites. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
MySpace and Yahoo! Duke It Out Did MySpace beat out Yahoo! for page views? |
