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0	Lawsuit alleges Offerpal co-founder was cheated out of ownership Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned.... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Sustainability: The ‘must have’ holy grail (Editor’s note: Bernard Moon is vice president of the Lunsford Group. He contributed this story to VentureBeat.) When I was a kid, Atari dominated... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 26, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Web 2.0: Sean Parker on why Facebook will win, and Google will lose Sean Parker, a managing partner at Founders Fund and an early president of Facebook, argued that a new breed of “network” companies will overshadow... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 22, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	With uncertain future, Bebo gets a new president AOL might spin out its expensively-purchased social network, Bebo, as it prepares to be separated from media parent company, Time Warner. Or so say... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jul 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	How to Avoid Malware on Facebook and Twitter: 8 Best Practices Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Oct 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Launches Virtual Gifts and The Friendster Gift Shop MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Friendster, Inc., a top global web site based on traffic, today announced the launch of virtual gifts... Source: prnewswire.com Date: Oct 28, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Watercooler raises $5.5 million New funds help Watercooler deliver fantasy sports to social networking sites Watercooler announced Sunday night that it has raised $5.5 million in a... Source: vator.tv Date: Oct 26, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zoosk Hits 40 Million Members, Eyes $20 Million In Revenue This Year For a long time, dating sites and social networks have been two very different beasts, rarely co-mingling as users maintained two entirely separate... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Oct 20, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Racks Up Patent Mountain View-based Friendster is trumpeting a patent the firm gained earlier this year, saying yesterday that it received U.S. Patent number... Source: silicontap.com Date: Oct 6, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Receives Fifth Social Networking Patent and Expands Portfolio MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Friendster, Inc., a top global web site based on traffic, today announced that the U.S. Patent and... Source: prnewswire.com Date: Oct 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Expands Social Networking Patent Warchest Friendster, with 19 million worldwide monthly unique visitors (Comscore, August 2009) is no longer a leading social network in the U.S., but it did... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Oct 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Zynga Is On A Tear; Claims Nearly 130 Million Social Gamers. Social gaming startup Zynga is seeing some impressive traction. It now boats 129 million monthly active users across its portfolio of more than 30... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Friendster Partners With Intelius. Let The Scams Begin. 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... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	World Domination: Facebook Looks to End Orkut’s Hold on Brazil If social networking were like a game of Risk, just about every country on the board would be heavily occupied by navy blue Facebook game pieces by... Source: mashable.com Date: Sep 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 3 This is part 3 of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web. In part 1 and part 2, we looked at how the real-time... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Sep 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1 This is part 1 of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web. Like cloud computing less than a year ago and social... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Aug 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	OLX And hi5 Join Forces For International Expansion Plans OLX and hi5, both challengers to dominating juggernauts in their respective fields (online classifieds and social networking), have teamed up to... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Aug 6, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook Does Not Want to Get You Laid Facebook has long been the wet blanket of social networks. Its latest bucket of cold water: No more searching for people by relationship status.... Source: gawker.com Date: Aug 5, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	When Was Podcasting Invented? Company’s Curious Patent Says 2003 The US Patent Office doesn’t always seem to be in touch with the Internet. They infamously awarded Amazon its “one-click” patent in ecommerce, while... Source: mashable.com Date: Jul 29, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	What Would Happen If Social Networking Sites Charged JohnForDummies alerts us to a suggestion from Dan Lyons over at Newsweek, saying that sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should just start... Source: techdirt.com Date: Jul 28, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0