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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Friendster experienced a 40% page view growth rate in May, according to the latest comScore traffic figures published at Venturebeat. Friendster currently sits in 4th place on the list of popular ...

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 ...

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 ...