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 ...

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 ...

Orkut was massively popular in developing nations, especially Brazil and India. However, this popularity somehow never reached countries like the US and other European nations. Once Facebook started ...

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) ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In 2004, Orkut Büyükkökten and Githin Jose founded the social network ...

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 ...

Just spotted in Orkut, Google’s also-ran social networking site: a new Google+ badge, one of the first integrations between the two services. Orkut members who also have a Google+ account are now ...

Google's social networking service, Orkut has opened it's doors to the general public. Previously Orkut was an invite-only service. If you already have a Google Account you can now login to Orkut and ...

Google's experimental social-networking site, Orkut, resurfaced Wednesday after being offline for nearly three days, keeping the thousands of Silicon Valley executives and techies invited to sign up ...