Friendster’s founder pulls in $1.7M for social news startup Nuzzel

November 8, 2012 11:35 pm

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Social news aggregator Nuzzel has secured its first round of funding just… Continue reading ⟩

Friendster’s founder ditches social networks for social news

September 13, 2012 10:45 pm

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Jonathan Abrams’ new startup, Nuzzel, is a slick, well-designed social… Continue reading ⟩

Early social network Friendster sold to Malaysian payment systems vendor

December 10, 2009 8:06 pm

Kuala Lumpur-based MOL, a payment systems seller known much better in Asia than in America, announced today its acquisition of… Continue reading ⟩

Any port in a storm: Social network Friendster up for sale

July 28, 2009 12:28 am

Popular-in-Asia social networking site Friendster is up for sale, according to banker documents obtained by TechCrunch. One of the earliest… Continue reading ⟩

Friendster wires a money transfer feature to the Philippines

February 11, 2009 7:55 pm

Friendster has just introduced a way to send and receive payments with friends on the social network through your mobile… Continue reading ⟩

Social network Friendster refocuses business on Asian users

January 20, 2009 10:00 pm

Friendster, one of the earliest social networks to grow big, is trying to capitalize on its Asian growth by expanding… Continue reading ⟩

Friendster nabs fourth social-networking patent, dozen more pending

December 9, 2008 7:59 am

Friendster was the first modern social network to really gain traction on the web. But it has lost ground to… Continue reading ⟩

Friendster says it's compatible with Facebook apps

October 3, 2008 1:04 am

Social networking site Friendster announced that it now supports applications built on competing network Facebook‘s popular platform. Friendster already supports… Continue reading ⟩

Friendster now allows OpenSocial applications on its social network

August 19, 2008 5:03 am

Friendster, the social network that’s big in Asia, has launched an OpenSocial version of its nine month old developer platform.… Continue reading ⟩

Friendster raises $20 million, nabs a Googler to be CEO

August 5, 2008 5:23 am

Friendster, the formative social network of the modern web era that became a verb for rollercoaster failure and then took… Continue reading ⟩