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 ...

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 ...

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.

See About archive blog posts. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams poses in front of the logo for his start-up company, Socializr, at a Lunch 2.0 event in 2007. Credit: Terry Chay The millions of ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...