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- ABS-CBN acquires 5% stake in Multiply
- Philippines-based broadcaster ABS-CBN has acquired a 5% stake in US social network Multiply for USD5m. Under the terms of the agreement, ABS-CBN purchased 2,524,448 shares in Multiply for USD1.98 per share. ABS-CBN also has the right to purchase up to...
- Articles 2008-11-18
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- eHarmony and Friendster Launch Online Personals ``Matching'' System; eHarmony's Patented Technology Helps Friendster Members Find Compatible Singles for Love and Marriage
- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & PASADENA, Calif. -- FriendsterR (www.friendster.com), the safe, fun and free online community that enables you to organize your social life, and eHarmony (www.eharmony.com), the Internet's premier relationship service, today announced an exclusive partnership to bring scientific matchmaking to Friendster's rapidly growing community. As part of the...
- Research articles 2004-11-30
- Friendster and Eurekster Join to Launch Personalized Internet Search Services on Friendster Online Community
- Friendster® (www.friendster.com), the safe, fun and free online community that enables you to organize your social life, and EureksterTM (www.eurekster.com), the first Internet search service powered by community and social networking technologies, today announced the launch of personalized Internet search and navigation services on Friendster networks in eight countries.
- Research articles 2004-12-09
- Userplane Webmessenger Deployed on Friendster, One of the Web's Leading Social Networking Sites; Friendster Chat Enables Its 16 Million Users to Instantly Communicate With Friends
- LOS ANGELES -- Userplane (www.userplane.com), the leading provider of live community software, today announced the deployment of its instant messaging solution, Userplane Webmessenger, on Friendster, one of the most popular social networking sites. Enhancing one of the web's premier destinations for staying in touch with friends and meeting new friends,...
- Research articles 2005-04-25
- Friendster Scales-Out With MySQL Network: Social Networking Site Handles Over One Billion Database Queries Per Day
- Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job. However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task - even with 60 million page-views each day. To manage such a large (and...
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- Voiceglo and Friendster Connect with Internet Phone Service; Popular Online Service Will Offer VoIP to Millions of Members Worldwide
- FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Historic, First Ever Friendster VoIP Call is Made Between Friendster Founder and Great-Grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
- Research articles 2004-09-30
- Mountain View, Calif., Dating Network Friendster Hires New CEO.
- By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 3--Friendster, the Mountain View online social networking company that shook the dating scene last year by allowing friends to peer into each other's networks for prospective dates, has named...
- Research articles 2004-06-03
- Ticketmaster/Evite Threatens Friendster Founder's New Website Socializr
- Ticketmaster, owner of event invitation service Evite, has threatened to sue upstart competitor Socializr for copyright infringement. Socializr, Inc. is a three-person San Francisco startup founded by Friendster creator Jonathan Abrams.
- Research articles 2007-05-16
- Friendster Reduces Network Costs; Optimizes Performance with Internap Route Control Technology; FlowControl Platform Provides Control and Visibility into Complex Networks
- ATLANTA -- Internap Network Services Corporation (AMEX:IIP), a leading provider of performance-based routing solutions over the Internet, today announced that Friendster, a pioneering online social networking community, is using the InternapR Flow Control PlatformTM FCP to gain minute-by-minute visibility into the performance of its complex network architecture, reduce bandwidth costs...
- Research articles 2005-12-21
- Friendster Nearly Triples Performance and Page Views Served by Implementing Akamai Solution; Improved Performance Directly Correlates to Increased Demand for Leading Social Networking Site, Resulting in Higher Revenues
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, today announced that Friendster, a leading online community site with more than 27.5 million users, has seen significant business gains as a result of implementing Akamai's global content delivery and...
- Research articles 2006-04-11
- 6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Friendster
- The Twitter outage yesterday would have caused much uproar on the service had anyone been able to complain about it. Those in the media, frequently heavy users themselves (I include myself: @ErikSherman), poured on about the long incident. But I think that this was another in a list of prompts...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- A Cautionary Tale
- “P eople said I started the site just to meet girls," says Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster, one of the earliest social-networking companies. "But if I wanted to do that, I'd have opened a bar or started a rock group." Now the poster child for “P eople said...
- Research articles 2007-04-13
- Sunnyvale, Calif.-Based Online Dating Site Rejects $30 Million Google Offer.
- By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 31--Search-engine giant Google recently made a $30 million offer to buy Friendster, the hot Sunnyvale online dating site that lets users meet and date friends of their friends. ...
- Research articles 2003-10-31
- Why Use LinkedIn?
- I used to think that LinkedIn requests were obnoxious. I felt like I was being roped into a social network that, unlike Friendster, has been scrubbed free of interestingness and instead has a glossy PR sheen. But as a business professional, it's become unavoidable; not having a LinkedIn profile is...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- 'Facebook With Wrinkles' - A Slew of Sites Attempt to Lure Boomers
- When Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace in June 2005, the News Corp. boss cited young people's restless desire to surf, select and control their information as a driving force in the transformation of the news business and a contributing factor in his decision to venture online. Young people, in...
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Benchmark Capital's Dave Goldberg: How VCs Predict the Future
- Dave Goldberg is an entrepreneur-in-residence at VC firm Benchmark Capital, where he works to evaluate and identify investment opportunities. Benchmark has has $3.5 billion in capital under management and has invested in such companies as Friendster and Linden Research, Inc., the creator of Second Life. In this interview, Goldberg talks...
- Videos 2007-11-05
- Six Degrees of Cooperation
- The corporate world is waking up to social networking, a concept already familiar to huge numbers of adolescents and lonely hearts. The aim is to electronically bridge the gap between one and the person who can bring him or her love, companionship, or, in this case, money. Popularized by Friendster...
- White papers 2004-11-30
- Using Social Networking For Business
- Online social networking is the newest weapon to get more customers. The Internet research company Compete found that two out of every three people using the Web visited a social networking site. These websites have had a 109 percent growth since 2004 and seem to show no signs of stopping,...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Great Moments in Terrible Ideas: A Social Network for Your Company
- Kris Dunn’s HR Capitalist blog is normally pretty spot-on. But his idea of experimenting with a social network for his company is cute but dumb, like when puppies try to run and keep falling over. From his blog: Social Networking think products like FaceBook and MySpace should have positive...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Social networking put to work; Firms apply Friendster concept to making business contacts.(New York Web)
- Byline: anita jain When Antony Broydon tried three years ago to sell the digital music company that he helped run, he found himself flipping through his Rolodex for contacts who could help open doors for him at likely buyers like Vivendi Universal Byline:...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
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