Streaming service Plex has long since grown beyond its original focus of being a home for personal media to offer a more comprehensive solution for discovering, streaming, and sharing content across ...

Google has acquired a mobile social networking startup called Zingku, the search company’s latest move to provide more services through mobile phones. Zingku aims to make it easier for people to share ...

Microsoft’s FUSE Labs has announced it is killing So.cl (or just plain Socl), a multimedia-infused social network and search tool positioned as a complement to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and ...

Nicola Gunby, a 30-year-old entrepreneur, longed for a community of friends when she moved to London after the pandemic, but was shocked to find herself isolated in one of the biggest cities in the ...

Back before everyone had cell phones, MySpace accounts and joined mobile social networks, you'd call your buddies if you wanted to meet up for a drink, and then you showed up. Simple as that. But ...

Betting that the social networking niche of the online services market will become broader and more established, Emode.com has tripled its social networking members by buying competitor Ringo, Emode ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web's ...

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms.

On October 16, the European Commission determined that X’s online social networking service does not qualify as a core platform service (CPS) under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This conclusion ...