Hi5 is one of the world's largest social networks, with over 56 million monthly visitors. It's a company that demands maximum scale and performance from its infrastructure.

hi5 Networks, not-big-in-U.S.-but-big-elsewhere social network, has made a small acquisition: it has bought out PixVerse, a social chat tool used by uses of hi5 and other social networks.

SAN FRANCISCO-- (BUSINESS WIRE)--hi5 Networks, one of the world ’ s largest social networks, announced today that it is also the world ’ s fastest growing among the top-10 global social ...

I had an opportunity to speak with Akash Garg, hi5 Network s CTO, about how his organization is using tools from Hyperic. Thanks Akash for taking the time to chat with me.

MySpace isn’t the only social network with a new chief executive — Hi5 has one, too. It’s Bill Gossman, a serial entrepreneur who most recently was the chief executive of behavioral ad ...

Founded in 2003, hi5 is among the top 20 largest web sites worldwide and the leading destination site focused on social entertainment and gaming. hi5 delivers a fun, interactive entertainment ...

For Hi5 and Friendster, global growth is a major part of their game plan. Friendster, for instance, which dropped off the radar for most of us in the U.S., is now the single largest social network ...

Hi5’s executives told me today that they are getting feedback from its users and third party developers about how to prepare the platform. The company already lets users embed Flash widgets ...

hi5 Networks, Inc. is a privately-held firm headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Its flagship service, hi5, was launched in 2003 and is now one of the leading social networks in the world ...

Hi5 continues to be one of the most popular social networks with more than 60 million active users, with a reported 80 percent of those coming from outside of the U.S.

Nevertheless, hi5 has helped to lead the charge for virtual goods’ integration with social networks, which are becoming hefty business opportunities with even heftier rewards.

In the U.S., Hi5 gets little of the ink of its two much bigger competitors, Facebook and MySpace. But in some parts of the world--Mexico and Latin America, for instance--Hi5 is la más popular ...