From Yik Yak to Friendster, there have been plenty of short-lived social media sites that were popular one day and gone the next. Only a handful of social media platforms have dominated our ...

Friendster announced a relaunch last week and, responsible journalist that I am, I wanted to sign up for an account and investigate the service thoroughly before ripping it to pieces. The first ...

We’ve got more details on the Friendster acquisition announced last week. Rumors were floating that the buyer, MOL Global, paid as much as $100 million for Friendster. The real price ...

MOL Global, in which Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan is the principal shareholder, announced earlier today that it is acquiring 100% of social networking site Friendster for an undisclosed amount.

Friendster, the once high-flying social network, has recently found its wings clipped by money problems and long load times. Though the site was once hailed as the "next big thing" on the Internet ...

With a million members and counting, servers for six-month-old Web site Friendster are staggering under demand. Copycat competitors to the site are cropping up, and rumors of imminent subscription ...

Friendster, the social network that preceded Facebook and MySpace, is being dismantled. Although the service will live on, users are now being prompted to back up photos, blogs, comments and groups.

I knew the glory days of Friendster were behind them, but I didn’t know things were this bad. The company is proudly announcing a partnership with Washington based people search company Intelius ...

Friendster has landed a $10 million investment, providing the struggling pioneer of social-networking sites with funds to try to recapture defecting users and establish new friendships. The ...

On December 10 2009, leading Southeast Asian payment provider MOL bought the pioneering social network Friendster for $39.5 million. Kuala Lumpur-based MOL is owned by Malaysian billionaire Tan ...

I then raised the subject of Friendster. They were the social Web before MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, you name it. But that was three years ago. And as the New York Times' Gary Rivlin brilliant ...