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 ...

See About archive blog posts. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams at the Tech Policy Summit in San Jose in 2007. Courtesy of Abrams Facebook, with more than 250 million active users, and Twitter ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- This is the way social networks end: Not with a bang, but a "pivot." Friendster, a pioneering social networking site launched in the pre-Facebook days of 2002, has been ...

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 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 ...

It's not likely to happen here in the States for quite some time, but the venerable ol' YASN Friendster has been trialling a mobile version of its social networking service in the Philippines ...

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 ...

Colleague Caroline McCarthy lets us know that Friendster- that "whatever happened to?" social networking destination now significantly eclipsed by MySpace and Facebook- seems to have awoken from ...

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 ...

Friendster essentially created the social networking sector, but it fumbled its lead and now ranks 14th among all such sites. The Times's Gary Rivlin reports. (Producer: Erik Olsen) Advertisement ...