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Facebook For Latinos Quepasa Buys myYearbook For $100 Million In Cash And Stock
Quepasa, the Facebook for Latinos has merged with social networking company myYearbook for $100 million, comprised of approximately $82 million in Quepasa common stock and approximately $18 million in cash.…
Q&A With Geoff Cook: How We Solved The Chatroulette Porn Problem
At the end of last year, social networking site myYearbook shifted its focus more towards games and introduced a live video chat feature which could have completely backfired. But instead…
myYearbook Bets Big On Android With Acquisitions Of Five Apps, FlockEngine
Social networking company myYearbook this morning announced it has acquired five new Android apps to support its mobile strategy and grow its team. In addition, the company acquired FlockEngine, which…
MyYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat
In general, the key driver of social networking so far is games on Facebook. But most of those games aren’t social in the way that playing Monopoly or cards with…
Outside the Echo Chamber: Growing A Startup In New Hope, PA
This guest post is written by Geoff Cook, cofounder and CEO of social networking site myYearbook. It describes the challenges of running a startup from New Hope, PA — a…
myYearbook's Chatter Driving 1 Million Updates A Day, 1 Billion Page Views A Month
Many people have never heard of myYearbook, a social network that skews pretty young (half of its members are teenagers). But it’s got a substantial audience, with around 55.7 million…
MyYearbook Rolls Out Its Crowdsourced Redesign
This week, social networking site MyYearbook launched a revamped design, changing some key UI elements to better reflect the way people use the site. One of the more interesting points…
myYearbook Finds Profitability In Hyper-Competitive Social Networking World
At best people consider myYearbook an afterthought in the social networking world – they weren’t even included in our 2009 Social Network valuation model because of a lack of available…
I Wish More People Bcc'd Us On Their Confidential Acquisition Emails
Yesterday myYearbook CEO Geoff Cook reached out to FunAdvice President Jeremy Goodrich to talk about a possible acquisition. Based on certain assumptions, Cook said, he’d be prepared to offer $125,000…
Meebo Brings Real-Time Chat To myYearbook
Meebo’s Community IM is getting its biggest vote of confidence yet tonight, when it is deployed on popular social network myYearbook. Community IM is Meebo’s answer to Facebook Chat, offering…
Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million
myYearbook, a social network for teenagers that launched in 2005, has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, and First…
MyYearBook Gunning For Facebook Market
MyYearBook, founded in 2005, just announced a $4.1 million round venture financing led by U.S. Venture Partners and First Round Capital. The site has a look and feel suspiciously similar…