Tag archive: Joanna Shields

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

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

Amnesty International has launched a new campaign that will harness the power of social networking sites. Known as Unsubscribe, the aim of the new initiative is to get those on social networks involve in human rights campaigning online.   With their connections betweenpeople, social networks make the perfect medium for quickly spreading the word, and the fact that they’re mostly used by the young can only help the cause.  … 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