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| Feb 16, 2012 | EU Court Bans Anti-Piracy Filters On Hosting Services | For several years music rights group SABAM and the social networking site Netlog have battled in court. To protect the rights of its members, SABAM demanded that Netlog should install a tool that would scan all files uploaded by its users f... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Dutch social network Hyves sold to media group, as European-based networks feel the Facebook heat | Leading Dutch social network, Hyves, which for a long time held out against the encroachment of Facebook, is selling the entire company to Dutch media group TMG (Telegraaf Media Groep) for an undisclosed sum.
Hyves has a 68% penetration in ... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Hyves Sold To Media Group, As European-based Social Networks Feel The Facebook Heat | Leading Dutch social network, Hyves, which for a long time held out against the encroachment of Facebook, is selling the entire company to Dutch media group TMG (Telegraaf Media Groep) for an undisclosed sum.
Hyves has a 68% penetration in ... |
| Aug 21, 2010 | Netlog Taking Gaming Seriously, Prepares For US, Dubai Expansion (TCTV) | Netlog, the company that sagely changed its name from Facebox in 2007, is taking this gaming thing pretty seriously. While the bread and butter of the Belgium-based operation is still social— with 69 million members on its youth-centric soc... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Netlog gets a major makeover, now growing at 500,000 users a week | Today, Netlog – the ‘European MySpace’ as they’re often referred to – is hosting a Partner Day at and around their global headquarters in Ghent, Belgium. The most important thing the company will be sharing is a look at their redesigned web... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Netlog launches Gatcha!, a cross-network social game distribution platform | I’m currently blogging from a boat, rented by Belgian social network operator Netlog to host about a hundred of their closest business partners for a presentation about their freshly redesigned website and a roadmap of what’s in store for t... |
| Sep 29, 2009 | Interxion Supports Netlog Growth | Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Ghent-based Netlog NV to meet rising demand for the company’s social networking and file-sharing site. Interx... |
| Jul 18, 2009 | Belgian Tax Watchdogs Tracking Facebook, Netlog Updates | Not entirely unexpected, but still weird to see it confirmed and acknowledged: the federal tax administration in Belgium, my home country, is keeping tabs on citizens (article in Dutch) via their Facebook and Netlog profiles and their activ... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Mollom Blocks Its 100 Millionth Spam Message | Mollom, a spam prevention tool that competes with Automattic’s Akismet, has blocked a stunning 100,000,000 spam messages from appearing on websites, social networks and blogs since the product was introduced about 14 months ago.
Given that ... |
| May 19, 2009 | European Social Network Netlog To Use Mollom's Spam Filtering Tool | Spam filtering tool Mollom, a competitor to Automattic’s Akismet, has struck a deal to filter messages and comments for Netlog, one of Europe’s fastest growing social networks. Mollom will be filtering more than 4 million messages in over 2... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | AOL Rolls Out Bebo In Several European Countries | AOL’s People Networks division has today announced the launch of social networking site Bebo, which it acquired almost exactly one year ago, in several key European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Before... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog | Don’t count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Joost hooks up with Netlog | Joost – the streaming video service that started as a P2P client, failed, and went back to the Web – has partnered with Netlog, the MySpace-like social Netlog prominent in continental Europe.
Netlog’s 40 million users can now access Joost’s... |
| Jan 13, 2009 | Look out – Netlog releases GPS-enabled iPhone app for its 33 million users | European Myspace competitor Netlog, which has over 33 million users, has released its native iPhone app. Users can get a feed of friends updates, see pictures, upload content and add pictures. Unusually, it is also GPS-enabled, something Fa... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Social Network Netlog To Kick Off Integrated Multiplayer Games | European social network Netlog has announced a deal with game developers Jadestone (Sweden) and Bigpoint (Germany) to start integrating multiplayer games into the community website. Users will be able to play games directly on Netlog withou... |
| Oct 26, 2008 | MySpace Gives Up On The Netherlands | According to several sources, MySpace has decided to throw in the towel with regards to its expansion in The Netherlands. The social networking site had opened up an Amsterdam office merely 9 months ago but has now announced it will shut it... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | E Wants To Be The Future of Networking | In this web-enabled world of ours, you have to wonder why business cards are still so popular. Shouldn’t there be a better way? A number of startups have attempted to address this problem with ingenious solutions that range from iPhone apps... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | Netlog launching language translation for developers | Following its name change and $6.8m financing round last April, the European social networking site Netlog had already stated an intention to release a developer platform with support for custom APIs. In fact, it plans to become a bit of a ... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | After a girl goes missing, is Netlog doing all it can to protect children on its site? | Netlog, which at 33 million users is possibly continental Europe’s biggest social network, could be open to criticism in the way it deals with minors on its site.
A girl of 15 who was feared to have fled to Turkey to meet two men who befrie... |
| Apr 5, 2008 | Europe Is Searching For Its Silicon Valley | Over the past few days at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to hang out with about 700 Internet entrepreneurs from all over Europe. The startup scene in Europe reminds me of Silicon Valley four or five years ago—hu... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | NextWeb – Startup pitches round 2 | NextWeb: Startup pitches round 2
Netlog
Netlog are really well known in Europe but here is how they pitched it: A European social networking platform. They have a timeline (it’s a newsfeed guys!). Now over 30m members, 4bn pages views, loca... |
| Mar 28, 2008 | European startups set out their pitches | The TheNextWeb conference happens in Amsterdam next week, and they’ve announced the startups that will be pitching in the startup competition (below). Some 22 companies get to pitch and the last 2 will be chosen by the crowd. A few other no... |
| AVG and Netlog Partner to Help More Than 24 Million Social Networking Users Stay Safe | AVG and Netlog Partner to Help More Than 24 Million Social Networking Users Stay Safe
February 2011 by Marc Jacob
AVG Technologies, developers of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, announced that it has teamed up with Netlog... |