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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we talk about our first-ever social media platform, it ought to be Orkut if you were growing up back then. Orkut introduced way back in 2004, became everyone's saviour back then and 'Orkuting' ...

As people vouch to delete Facebook in the wake of a massive data breach scandal, Orkut Buyukkokten – a former Google employee who founded the trendsetter social networking website Orkut.com more than ...

Two years ago, Facebook had little more than four million visitors in Brazil, according to Ibope Nielsen Online, the reference for ranking of Brazilian web audience. Orkut had been the market leader ...

Orkut, the social networking service Google launched back in 2004, miraculously survived multiple rounds of spring cleaning despite the fact that it was never a huge hit outside of Brazil, India and a ...

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 ...