What does AOL get when it pairs aging instant message service AIM with Bebo, the also-ran social network that it bought for $850 million last spring? A web service that could one day be a main way for ...

Bebo says it will make a return in February 2021 as a "brand new social network." Users won't be able to access their old accounts or data, it said. The site was founded in 2005 and had a tumultuous ...

Bebo used to be one of the biggest social networks in the UK, rising to 10 million unique users after launching in 2005. In 2008, Bebo was sold to AOL $850 million. But Bebo quickly became uncool.

It's been a long and winding road for Bebo, the social network that was launched in San Francisco in 2005. After being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars and later being bounced from owner to ...

You might remember social network Bebo from before Facebook's world domination. Well it's now back as a bizarre, hashtag and avatar-fuelled messaging app. Bebo first launched as a website aimed at the ...

It was a hugely popular social media platform in the 2000s - but many former Bebo users still have no idea what its name actually stood for. Launched in January 2005 by husband-and-wife duo Michael ...

AOL once paid $850 million for the social network. Bebo creator Michael Birch has bought it back for a cool $1 million, and aims to start over. Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET ...

WATCH: Michael Birch said the "temptation was too great" not to relaunch Bebo Bebo's co-founder plans to relaunch the social network with a focus on profiles and "real-time" interactions between ...

Bebo was off-loaded by AOL earlier this year to Criterion Capital Partners for less than $10 million, despite paying $850 million for it only two years earlier, to UK developer Michael Birch and his ...

Bebo used to be one of the biggest social networks in the UK, rising to 10 million unique users after launching in 2005. In 2008, Bebo was sold to AOL $850 million. But Bebo quickly became uncool.