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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The debut of several columnists on Google's social networking Web site, Orkut, has some in the Internet industry scratching their heads. Is the popular search engine's first foray into generating ...

Let's face it, if not for Brazil, Google's Orkut would go the way of Rupert Murdoch's My Space. For now, Orkut remains the leading social network in Brazil. Brazil keeps Orkut relevant. "It is ...

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 ...

Orkut still dominates the Brazilian market: it attracted 22.7 million unique visitors last month. The next closest competitor, Windows Live Profile, brought in roughly a third of that traffic with 8 ...

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 ...