Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon characters, political figures, celebrities and bogus people.

Is some patent medicine the prescription Friendster needs to get back on its feet? A pioneer in the area of online social networking, the company and its Web site quickly fell from grace. Now it's ...

As part of its efforts to better monetize its services, Friendster is looking to expand its brand beyond just a social networking site to one that encompasses games and location-based services. In an ...

A recent NY Times article entitled “Wallflower at the Web Party” told about Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams and his decision NOT to accept a $30 million buy out offer from Google a few years back, ...

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 ...

The year is 2026. You thought it was gone forever. A relic of an internet past, a whisper in the digital graveyard. But then, the impossible happened. Friendster just pulled the ultimate comeback plot ...

A little less than a year ago tech entrepreneurs Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman invested a combined $310,000 for 5% of Friendster, then a little-known Web site founded by former Netscape engineer ...

Friendster has gone live as a social gaming portal, the latest incarnation for one of the pioneers of the social networking space. The new Friendster uses Facebook Connect as a social-networking ...

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Friendster looks to be all the rage. Walk into any supermarket and you're likely to overhear milk stockers talking about it. It recently scored some big new venture capitalist funding. And its ...

Ever since the news broke that social-network prototype Friendster will, for all intents and purposes, end its sad existence on May 31, many have speculated as to why it ultimately failed. CNET's ...