Tag archive: Orkut

Though Facebook growth may be slowing here in the US, the social networking service has been doing very well overseas; especially in Brazil. In fact, at the end of 2011, the service pulled into the top position for Brazilian social networking sites and surpassed the long-favored Google Orkut service. According to comScore, Facebook managed to attract 36.1 million monthly unique visitors by the month of December in 2011. The rapid growth in… Read More

Google+ may be the new star, but the search engine's original social network. Orkut isn't getting pushed aside completely. Orkut will continue to be invested in and may even become integrated with the new Google + social networking service. A spokesperson for Google said “Orkut and Google+ are different products, and will both exist. Over time we'll determine what makes the most sense in terms of integrating these products.”… Read More

Growth may be no surprise when it comes to Facebook, but it seems as if the California based social networking giant will be reaching 700 million users soon according to some analysis done by the Socialbakers Facebook statistics site. Countries such as Brazil, Phillipines, Indonesia, Mexico and Argentina are responsible for much of the social website's international adoption recently. According to Socialbakers' statistics, almost… Read More

You win some, you lose some. As Google is rumored to be closing a deal to acquire wildly popular Groupon, it’s also delaying the launch of its social networking feature. Dubbed “Google Me” by the media, talk about the Facebook rival first grabbed attention in July, when a Wall Street Journal report broke the news that the search engine giant was in discussions with Facebook game developers, such as Zynga. Nothing ever came of those talks, or at… Read More

Internet giant Google has signed an agreement with Brazilian public prosecutors to help fight the distribution of child pornography on its Orkut social networking service. Brazilian public prosecutors had filed a suit against Google in its unwillingness to cooperate with investigations; Google maintains that it has always been willing to cooperate with Brazilian authorities, but under U.S. law could not disclose information about its… Read More