If you were online in the mid-2000s, you might remember Orkut, with its lurid logo, fingernail-sized profile pictures, and text-heavy, pastel-blue feeds. Unlike Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey ...

In 2004, fresh off a failed attempt to buy hotshot-of-the-day Friendster, Google launched Orkut. The fledgling site was Google's first foray into a social network in the days before anyone knew ...

Just spotted in Orkut, Google’s also-ran social networking site: a new Google+ badge, one of the first integrations between the two services. Orkut members who also have a Google+ account are ...

Google is shutting down Orkut today, its first attempt at a social networking service. The decision was announced in June and users have had a few months to export their profile data, community ...

Orkut, the social networking service Google launched back in 2004, miraculously survived multiple rounds of spring cleaning despite the fact that it was never a huge hit outside of Brazil ...

Google announced today that its decade-old social network Orkut would be shut down. The long-suffering social network had withstood the fact that its user base was primarily in Brazil at a time ...

"Social media has become really creepy," says Orkut Büyükkökten. "They are tracking your clicks, they are even tracking how many times a day you call your mom. The ads you see follow you around ...

If you are an 80s' born, then chances are that your first social media account was on orkut.com. The platform was named after its creator Orkut Büyükkökten, a Turkish software engineer.

Orkut had been the market leader for the past 7 years in Brazil. In July 2009, Orkut reigned online with more than 27 million users while Facebook had only 4,2 million members. Then ...

Facebook appears to have overtaken Google's Orkut in India. At the same time, Google has rolled out new changes to beef up Orkut as it continues to work on a broader social-networking service.

A small social-networking software company has filed suit against Google, claiming that much of the source code behind orkut.com, the search engine's popular social service, was stolen by a former ...