Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it
This is civic tech: Oh look, here comes UpLink … Tweets: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : So this woman was 15 when someone created a Facebook business page dedicated to... her butthole. She spends ~4 year...
A look at the many failed social networks launched since 2002, including Friendster, Myspace, Bebo, ConnectU, Path, Yik Yak, Orkut, Google+, and Vine
that your feed could look a lot more interesting, more avant-garde, joyous, local, intimate, kinky, weird, and hilarious and, yes, scarier and even more hateful than it does now.” https://gizmodo.com/...
Amazon's Twitch has acquired social networking platform Bebo, source says for $25M, to bolster its esports business
While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...
Michael Birch's Bebo prequel
Of all the interviews I did for my book, Viral Loop, the one I enjoyed most was with Michael Birch. This was about six months after he sold Bebo, the social network he had largely bootstrapped with h...
Bebo's Founder Michael Birch Says He's Bought Back The Social Network For $1M, Plans To ‘Reinvent’ It
Another turn in the twisted life of social network Bebo, which has unfortunately gone in the direction of a downward spiral for much of the last couple of years: the site appears …
Resurrected Bebo gets a facelift
Social networking site Bebo has only been in the news sporadically since AOL sold it to Criterion Capital Partners last June, but the company says it has been steadily rolling out new features. Today...
Confirmed: Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo From AOL
The rumors are true: hedge fund Criterion Capital Partners is indeed the buyer of Bebo. As we reported yesterday, AOL is offloading the social networking service for less than $10 million (other medi...
With Bebo a No-Go, AOL Will Unload the Social Site
AOL Inc. is close to selling its social-networking site Bebo to a private investment firm, according to people familiar with the matter. — Exact terms of the deal couldn't be learned, but people fam...
AOL's Armstrong: Bebo deal ‘really fell apart’
NEW YORK—AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wasn't yet at the company when it paid $850 million for social network Bebo two years ago, a purchase that's now considered to be one of the biggest tech industry M&A bl...
AOL Admits Bebo To Be Sold Or Shut Down; Memo Sets May Target For Decision
AOL (NYSE: AOL) told employees today that it may sell or shut down social network Bebo this year after deciding it would take too much additional investment to make keeping it worthwhile. Here's the ...