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The Weekly Round-Up: 24.04.09
Round-Up Said one: "Give it a couple of years and it will be as passé as Friends Reunited. The Round-Up isn't much of a Twitterer. Or should that be tweeter? Or twitteriser? Anyway, the Round-Up doesn't do it -... [24 Apr 2009]
Twitter: The CIO's new best friend - or chocolate teapot?
News Informatiq's Steel said: "Give it a couple of years and it will be a passé as Friends Reunited. In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, seven out of the 12 members said they are currently using Twitter for... [22 Apr 2009]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News One of the earliest social networks, Friends Reunited, lost 47 per cent of its unique users in the past 12 months with 1.6 million people now using the site. Facebook has suffered its first monthly drop... [22 Feb 2008]
NTL 'ready for ITV merger talks'
News The company has previously expressed an interest in bumping up revenues via technology and bought web success story Friends Reunited late last year. The quad-play company revealed today it has been in... [10 Nov 2006]
10,000 silver surfers flood onto the web
News Perhaps unsurprisingly the internet sites that attract the largest percentage of visits from silver surfers are Ancestry.co.uk and Genes Reunited. As well as communicating with friends and family,... [25 May 2006]
News Corp names new internet investments head
News The company was also rumoured to have been in the running for VoIP player Skype, which was bought by eBay, and Friends Reunited, which was bought by ITV. News Corp has named a new head for its internet... [04 Jan 2006]
ITV to buy Friends Reunited
News ITV has officially announced it is to buy school reunion site Friends Reunited for up to £175m. Friends Reunited's management team will also help ITV to develop its... [07 Dec 2005]
ITV to win Friends Reunited bidding war?
News ITV looks likely to be the winner in the battle to buy schoolmate-finding website Friends Reunited. According to reports, ITV is the frontrunner in the acquisition race and is thought to have beaten off... [07 Nov 2005]
BT to buy Friends Reunited?
News BT has tabled a bid to buy school reunion website Friends Reunited, according to a report in the Sunday Times. The paper said BT is interested in the seemingly unlikely union as a means for exploiting... [17 Oct 2005]
Identity theft affecting one in four UK adults
News I think you shouldn't disclose any information about your life, your loves, your job, your friends to websites aimed at making you new friends or reuniting you with old ones. A quarter of adults have... [03 Mar 2005]
5 years ago... Demon pledges to contest Godfrey lawsuit
News The precedent also provided cause for concern among any company running messageboards - perhaps most famously Friends Reunited. The popular site, which aims to put old school friends in... [15 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.04
Round-Up The site, www.drinkingbuddys.co.uk, is a contact site for people who are lacking some decent company at the bar.a sort of Friendless Reunited if you will. By and large a lot of the people advertising on there are new to... [20 Feb 2004]
Treading the legal minefield of message boards
Comment When the Friends Reunited message boards became the place for naming and shaming teachers accused of child abuse, there was understandable outcry from the education sector. For the record,... [23 Jun 2003]
Employers use Friends Reunited as “third reference”
News Jobseekers should be careful about what they post on school reunion web site Friends Reunited because some employers are using it as a "third reference", according to recruitment companies. The company... [20 Jun 2003]
Friends Reunited 'not for sale'
News The owners of Friends Reunited have back-tracked on their plans to sell the phenomenally successful venture - announcing they instead plan to go global with the popular contact site.... [03 Mar 2003]
