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.

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 ...

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.

Hi5 has already been integrating Coins into third party games for RockYou. The deal with Playdom — a company that has grown large on MySpace, and is also expanding into Facebook — means more ...

Outside of the U.S., hi5 grew by around 30 million monthly unique visitors last year versus around 15 million for MySpace. Hi5 also grew both larger and faster than Friendster, Orkut and Bebo.

Hi5, once one of the top three global social networks, was acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged on Wednesday, as some of the remnants of the social network space clear out in the wake of ...

Tagged co-founder and CEO Greg Tseng. Tagged Inc., the self-described "social network for meeting new people," has acquired assets of Hi5 Networks Inc., a social network popular outside the United ...

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 ...

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.

Social networks need to find a way to make money fast. Online advertising never really worked well on social networks in the first place, and with online advertising feeling the same pressure as ...

Game web site Hi5 Networks bought Big Six, which makes so-called “social games.” San Francisco-based Hi5 didn’t give a price in the deal.

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 ...