Friendster says its biggest stronghold is in the Philippines, with more than 12 million active users per month. About 7,000 people showed up for a "Pinoy Friendster Day" event at a Manila-area ...

Friendster wouldn’t be the weirdly vital relic that it is—wouldn’t be, period—without them both. Correction, March 5, 2009: This piece originally misspelled the first name of model/actress ...

Since Friendster first attracted backing from two high-profile venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital, the company has also served as a litmus test for the ...

Friendster ranks No. 13 on technology research firm Hitwise's recent tally of top social networking sites. It holds less than 1 percent of the market share, trailing newcomers such as imeem.

If you are Friendster, something like that is not the first thing you want a potential developer partner to see. I'm not a big coder dude but is it too much to ask the main API link to work?

Friendster's fight.The good vibes vanished. In September Hoffman and Pincus spent $700,000 for a patent that they claim--and it's a long shot--could take down Friendster, along with a half-dozen ...

"Friendster used to be the only game in town, and a lot of people copied off of that success," Kwon said. "The landscape now is that there are a lot more options, which has really changed the ...

Friendster.com helped launch the online social-networking craze back in 2002. By 2004, the Web site had grown so big its software couldn't handle it and slowed to a crawl.

Friendster Inc. -- the most popular social network in the Asian-Pacific area -- is adopting a new strategy focused on the region. The social-networking site plans to announce Tuesday that Richard ...

If Facebook’s shares price at $35 each, the high end of its proposed IPO price range, Friendster’s stake will be worth $127 million, CNNMoney reports. And, MOL is looking to unload its shares.