Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with ...

So far, social networking is mostly for the young and digitally restless. Sites that cater to the teen and twentysomething crowd, like MySpace.com, Facebook and Xanga, consistently top the charts. Two ...

After a few failed attempts at building wider social networks, Apple has hit upon a smaller-scale strategy that allows users to share items to the big social sites with ease, and on a more personal ...

Microsoft’s FUSE Labs has announced it is killing So.cl (or just plain Socl), a multimedia-infused social network and search tool positioned as a complement to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and ...