| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.04.2022 | Несостоявшиеся ВК»: национальные соцсети, проигравшие Facebook | Если взглянуть на карту наиболее популярных соцсетей по странам мира за 2020 год — мы увидим почти безраздельное господство Facebook в большинстве стран мира. Исключений есть лишь несколько.
Во-первых, КНР, где западные социальные сети и ме... |
| 11.05.2017 | “….when you fall, stand up and run again” | |
| 28.02.2011 | Popular Russian Game Launched in Four Social Networks Throughout the World | Thanks to PixAPI platform for social network games by Pixonic, a social network game publisher from Russia, a popular game Little Brownies was launched in four global social networks with more than 500 million users.
Early in February 2011 ... |
| 29.11.2010 | Simfy, the Spotify-of-Germany, partners with social network StudiVZ | Simfy, a sort of German equivalent to Spotify, has signed an exclusive partnership with VZ networks, Germany’s largest social network and operator of the so-called Facebook clone StudiVZ.
The deal will see VZ’s 16 million users being given ... |
| 13.08.2010 | MyHammer appoints ex-StudiVZ, Jamba CEO to top job, prepares U.S. expansion | MyHammer, the ‘handy man’ jobs site, has appointed Markus Berger-de León as CEO. He was formerly CEO of StudiVZ and Jamba and replaces Gerrit Müller who will now become MyHammer’s COO and General Manager International where he’ll oversee th... |
| 01.11.2009 | German social networks hacker commits suicide while in jail | [Germany] You could say StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone has a few problems on its hands, and some unwelcome publicity.
Back in August Facebook officially became Germany’s biggest social network, increasing reach by more than 50% from Mar... |
| 21.10.2009 | Hacker arrested for blackmailing StudiVZ and other social networks | [Germany] Berlin police have arrested a man who apparently tried to blackmail VZ-Netzwerke, the holding company for the successful Facebook clone StudiVZ and other German social networks.
The man had used crawler software to harvest detaile... |
| 10.09.2009 | Facebook and StudiVZ end legal dispute | Facebook and StudiVZ have reached a settlement in the alleged plagiarism case, with the German social network operator paying Zuckerberg and co an undisclosed sum as part of the deal. Both companies will be withdrawing their respective clai... |
| 07.09.2009 | Germany's Facebook cloner made €10m – but isn't happy | StudiVZ founder Ehssan Dariani, who got booted from his own company shortly after acquisition, has finally unleashed what appears to be a tsunami of pent-up anger at the event, in an interview with German quality newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitu... |
| 25.08.2009 | Facebook accelerates past StudiVZ in Germany | It looks like the battle between StudiVZ and Facebook in Germany is reaching its end. Facebook is now officially Germany’s biggest social network. The latest numbers from analysts Nielsen show that the world market leader increased its reac... |
| 21.08.2009 | German online shopping network kaufDa secures second round funding | kaufDa is one of Germany’s leading “promotion search” sites. It helps you look for the best sales and promotions and find stores with promotions running near where you live. kaufDa obviates the need for catalogues and mass mailings by provi... |
| 07.08.2009 | Social gaming start-up wooga woos investors | Berlin-based social gaming company wooga, whose “Brain Buddies” now has 2.5million users on Facebook (and it’s still growing by 100,000 a day), just closed a round of investment – terms undisclosed – from Holtzbrinck Ventures. It plans to d... |
| 19.06.2009 | This week StudiVZ won a battle against Facebook – will they lose the war? | If you’re living in Germany, you may have heard of Plagiarius, a jokey, negative awards event. The awards are “given to those companies that the jury has found guilty of making ‘the most flagrant’ design imitations.” Looking through this ye... |
| 16.06.2009 | Facebook Loses Lawsuit Against German Clone StudiVZ, Gets Criticized For Sloppy Preparation | Bad news for Facebook from Germany today. Facebook has had issues with Berlin-based social network StudiVZ (“student directory” in German) for years before deciding last summer to finally sue their German clone in the US. In November, Faceb... |
| 10.06.2009 | Live from Berlin – TechCrunch Berlin, Panels & Pitches | TechCrunch Europe is holding an afternoon of presentations, panels and pitches exploring the German tech scene today, from 3pm (Berlin time) onwards. Above you’ll find the live video stream provided by Sevenload and we’re holding it at the ... |
| 01.05.2009 | Pirate Party Banned from Social Networking Site | Just a few days ago it was announced that German political parties would be allowed to campaign and engage the public via the social networking site StudiVZ. Not all parties will be allowed to participate though, since the German Pirate Par... |
| 19.03.2009 | Nimbuzz Pushes New iPhone VoIP App, Supports Calling Over 3G | Nimbuzz is launching a brand new VoIP application for the iPhone / iPod Touch today, making it one of the most comprehensive communication tools for the platform available today. It took several weeks for the Dutch startup to get the app ap... |
| 11.11.2008 | Nimbuzz Strikes Major Distribution Deal With StudiVZ, Germany's Largest Social Network | Holland-based IM and VoIP services provider Nimbuzz has just announced a noteworthy strategic partnership with StudiVZ, the largest social networking site in Germany famous worldwide for sporting a look closely resembling Facebook, which tr... |
| 07.10.2008 | The latest on Facebook’s German insurgency: A contest about who does good deeds on Facebook | Updated
Facebook is so serious about making the world a better place it launched a contest on the subject today, in German. The contest “invites people to pay tribute to those who have used Facebook to influence social change and contribute... |
| 20.07.2008 | StudiVZ Won't Comment On Facebook Lawsuit, But Will Talk Smack In General | StudiVZ, the Facebook clone (and by clone, we mean exact duplicate) in Germany, says in an email that they still havn’t received the lawsuit complaint filed by Facebook on Friday. The lawsuit claims intellectual property infringement and ac... |
| 18.07.2008 | Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ | Facebook is starting to pursue social networks that have copied their design or features by suing German site StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in California against the German company for what it claims i... |
| 03.03.2008 | Facebook's German version may not impress the locals after all | EUROPE: Facebook launches in German this week thanks to 2,000 users who helped translate it for freee using a Facebook application which also now covers Spanish and French. User can set their language to German, and anyone who visits the si... |
| 15.01.2008 | Samwer Brothers invest in Facebook | German Internet entrepreneurs, the Samwer Brothers, have become the latest new shareholders in Facebook, according to a Reuters story that cites one of the brothers, Alexander Samwer.
Samwer said the brothers have taken an undisclosed stake... |
| 09.11.2007 | Shoeboxed Heads Into Social Shopping | Receipt organization service Shoeboxed has moved into social shopping with a relaunched site that introduces the concept of “receipt flaunting.”
At the basic level, Shoeboxed allows users to organize all their e-mail and paper receipts, pro... |
| 05.09.2007 | Attack of the Facebook clones: Russia’s Vkontakte | International ripoffs of successful web companies can be found everywhere, from Frazr, the German Twitter clone, to Digg Malaysia, the Malaysian clone of the news-ranking site Digg.
Not to be outdone, the Russian social network Vkontakte (o... |
| 07.01.2007 | Web 2.0 bubble bursting: Peerflix cuts workforce, carnage mounting elsewhere | This year has become the “show-me” year. Internet start-ups showing no traction are getting shut down, or trimmed — abandoned by once wide-eyed investors.
The Web 2.0 bubble is bursting, but VentureBeat agrees with others that this is more ... |
| 03.01.2007 | German Facebook Clone Sells for €100 million | German Facebook clone Studivz has been sold to one of its investors, Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a German publishing group, for €100 million (about $132 million). Other investors of Studivz include the Samwer brothers, founders of ringtone ... |
| 28.07.2006 | Top Ten German Web Apps | The
Museum of Modern Betas is an excellent resource for finding out trends in (beta) web
apps. A new list that caught my eye recently was the Beta Quotient for
Germany – i.e. a list of 100 web 2.0 apps from Germany (betas and non-betas).
Ge... |
