Tag archive: Bebo

AOL might still be trying to figure out how it can stay in business, but that isn't stopping the company from adding content partners in an effort to attract more users to its sites. AOL has announced new content partnerships with real estate listing service Move Inc., Everyday Health, and Sporting News. Although no financial details of the arrangements were revealed, AOL plans to put content from the new parters front-and-center.… Read More

There's no doubt Facebook is the 800-pound gorilla in the world of social networking services, but back in the day Bebo was giving it and MySpace a run for their money—particularly in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and other international markets. Now, Bebo is looking to make itself relevant again by bringing back founder Michael Birch as a strategic advisor. And part of the role involves Birch actually taking an unspecified… Read More

AOL is paring back its ambitions in the world of online social networking, selling a website called Bebo that it bought a little more than two years ago for $850 million. Bebo, which launched in 2005, has failed to match the huge popularity of sites like Facebook and Twitter. AOL Inc., which is based in New York, tried to use the site to drive traffic to its other ad-supported Web properties, but it hasn't taken off. The site had about 5… Read More

In an email message to employees, AOL Ventures executive VP Jon Brod announced that the recently independent and slimmed-down AOL is looking to either sell its social networking property Bebo…or shut it down entirely. Although never a huge presence in the North American market, Bebo at one point was a top social networking service in the Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and was considered to have some of the most-engaged… Read More

It’s been 14 months since the AOL-owned social networking site Bebo had a global chief executive. It’s been without one, in fact, since Joanna Shields left the post. She’d helped engineer the sale of Bebo to AOL for $850 million in March 2008. After leaving her role as Bebo chief exec in May last year, Shields went on to become the boss of AOL’s People Network division before leaving the company entirely in May.… Read More

The Guardian reports that Bebo is denying rumors that AOL is trying to sell it, just 10 months after buying it for $850 million. The asking price is supposed to be just $200 million, slightly under a quarter of the price paid. According to TechCrunch UK, AOL executives have been disappointed with Bebo’s performance, and have been dawdling in integrating it with other AOL services, like e-mail and instant messaging. A Bebo… Read More

Social networking service (and recent AOL acquisition) Bebo has announced a new “Social Inbox,” aiming to offer a one-stop online location where users can access their email, get their social networking fix, and learn about new “media recommendations.” The idea is that instead of having to log into a myriad of social media and online lifestyle sites, users can just navigate to a single Bebo inbox and get all the… Read More

AOL is looking to make itself relevant in the age of social networking, announcing today it will be acquiring social networking site Bebo for somme $850 million in cash. Although Bebo doesn't have as large a presence in the U.S. as MySpace or Facebook, London-based Bebo boasts more than 40 million users worldwide and is the leading social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand. A major push into the social networking… Read More

Social networking site Bebo has announced it is teaming up with Sony's Crackle video distribution channel to offer three customized programmed channels: Sketch Comedy from Crackle,Indie Music from Crackle, and Animation from Crackle. Each channel will enable Bebo users to sign up as fans (so they'll know when content is updated) and will carry Crackle's advertising to Bebo users by embedding Crackle's proprietary… Read More

Yahoo must have been sweating a little. Microsoft had teamed up with Facebook tosell ads, and Google had a similar deal with MySpace. It must have been feeling like the wallflower that wasn’t askedto dance.   But now Yahoo can breathe easier. It’s signed an agreement with social networking site Bebo to sell most of the site’s display ads in the UK and Ireland. As part of the deal, Bebo will also offer Yahoo Answers, and… Read More

Social network Bebo has announced that it will team up with Microsoft to use Windows Live instant messaging on its site.  Bebo is especially popular in the UK, and the new service will let its users – which number around 36 million globally – to both import and export contacts between their Bebo pageand their Windows Live list.   Additionally, there are plans to introduce a feature whereby users would be able to message… Read More

Social networking site Bebo has scored a minor coup: it has become the first social networking site to offer music tracks for sale directly from artists's profile pages, rather than redirecting them to the iTunes store. Although Bebo is based in San Francisco, it has established a significant base (some 8.8 million users) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, so it's not much of a surprise that the iTunes deal applies to the UK… Read More