A couple others that might be best avoided if you're using them for professional purposes are Bebo and Friendster. However, unless you've seen it grow from the ground up, it's not an immediately clear concept – you and your clients may not be on...
Considering many of us watched the mass exodus of people to Facebook from MySpace, Bebo, StudiVZ , and now witnessing Orkut's deterioration, I have a law myself: "social loyalty dissipates every 4 to 10 years.
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Bebo, once a major contender with college students, has fallen to less than 1 percent of the marketplace. Just ask the citizens of Egypt, where social networks played a major role in their recent revolution.
Blogger, Twitter, and YouTube also garner significant audiences, as do Bebo and more niche social networking sites such as Ibibo, which is designed around online games, music sharing, and self-promotion.
The company took a $1.4 billion writedown for the sale of Bebo and a sharp drop in its share price. An overview of some of today's search, advertising and tech news. Google Adwords was granted victory by U.S.
As such, AOL already demonstrated its willingness to leave non-viable operations behind by selling its failing and ailing social site Bebo for a reported $10 million. When AOL is in the news, it means business.
AOL just bowed out of the game by selling its social platform Bebo to Criterion Capital Partners. The firm sees search accounting for $12.4 billion, or nearly half, of overall advertising budgets this year.
AOL has confirmed in an SEC filing this morning that it has sold its ailing social site Bebo to digital media investors Criterion Capital Partners. It seems AOL didn't linger too long on its Bebo woes.
According to a variety of sources, AOL plans to sell or close Bebo, the social network that it acquired two years ago for $850 million. In a memo sent to employees, AOL Ventures Executive Vice President Jon Broad, said, "Bebo, unfortunately, is a...
Bebo The study showed that social networking sites accounted for more than 20 percent of all display ads viewed online, with MySpace and Facebook combining for roughly 80 percent of ads among sites in the category.
This trend is highlighted by substantial user losses for the U.K.s other major social networks -- MySpace and Bebo. Despite recent suggestions that teens and young adults are losing interest in social networks, data released last week by online...
Although it achieved second place, Bebo only managed to attract around a third of the users garnered by Facebook. Eighty percent of the total U.K.online population visited a social networking site in May, with Facebook and Bebo attracting the most...
Stephane Panier Named by AOL as Global Head of Bebo Posted by Nathania Johnson Jul 29, 2009 To fill the top position of global operations at Bebo, AOL (which acquired the social network last year), promoted from within.
To fill the top position of global operations at Bebo, AOL (which acquired the social network last year), promoted from within. He is the ideal leader to build on Bebo's existing successes, to chart a course for its future, and to execute against...
Burns formerly ran social network Bebo, which was acquired by AOL last year. Kate Burns has been tapped by AOL to lead its European Sales division. Prior to that Burns spent time at Adlink and Google UK.
Burns formerly ran social network Bebo, which was acquired by AOL last year. Ex-Bebo Chief Kate Burns to Head Up AOL European Sales Posted by Nathania Johnson Jul 9, 2009 Kate Burns has been tapped by AOL to lead its European Sales division.
The new AOL.ca features the ability to check mail from a variety of providers (AOL, GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail) as well as the opportunity to update social networks including Facebook, Twitter, AOL-owned Bebo, and MySpace.
Bebo Expands to Five More European Countries Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 17, 2009 Social network Bebo, which was acquired by AOL last year, has expanded to five additional European countries. Bebo is already available in the UK and Ireland.