In 2004, a month before Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room, another social media site landed on the internet with a splash of hot pink. If you were online in the mid-2000s, ...

On Tuesday, Google will close down its Orkut platform, which for many years was the most popular social networking service in countries such as Brazil and India. Launched in 2004, Orkut had more than ...

Google announced today that its decade-old social network Orkut would be shut down. The long-suffering social network had withstood the fact that its user base was primarily in Brazil at a time when ...

Remember Orkut? Yeah, you're not alone if you said no. Orkut was Google's first foray into social networking and, while it never took off in the States, it did in some countries (in particular, India) ...

Twitter seems to have descended into deeper chaos since its new boss Elon Musk issued an ultimatum asking employees to commit to a "hardcore" working environment or accept a buyout. Reports suggested ...

If you remember Orkut, Google's first foray into social networking, good news: the site is still around. The bad news is that it's about to die. Orkut will go gentle into that good night on September ...

In 2004, fresh off a failed attempt to buy hotshot-of-the-day Friendster, Google launched Orkut. The fledgling site was Google's first foray into a social network in the days before anyone knew what a ...

Let's face it, if not for Brazil, Google's Orkut would go the way of Rupert Murdoch's My Space. For now, Orkut remains the leading social network in Brazil. Brazil keeps Orkut relevant. "It is ...

A small social-networking software company has filed suit against Google, claiming that much of the source code behind orkut.com, the search engine's popular social service, was stolen by a former ...

The debut of several columnists on Google's social networking Web site, Orkut, has some in the Internet industry scratching their heads. Is the popular search engine's first foray into generating ...