Game streaming site Twitch buys social network Bebo
Amazon-owned streaming platform reportedly bought once-popular Bebo for $25m
August 2016
Life in the Devon village saved by San Francisco tech millionaire
Michael Birch, Bebo’s co-founder, has bought Woolsery’s pub and the chippie. And villagers are more than happy
January 2016
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RIP Friends Reunited – but what else is lurking in the social media graveyard?
Once worth £175m, the networking site has now closed. But what became of MySpace? When did we say goodbye to Ello? Not to mention Menshn …
February 2015
New UK political party wants to make cannabis an election issue
Breakthrough moments
Bebo founder Michael Birch: ‘I’ve had more failures than successes’
August 2013
Bebo is leaving the balls behind, says founder – video
Bebo's founder Michael Birch appears in a spoof corporate video after spending $1m buying back the social network, which had long since fallen out of favour among fickle web consumers
July 2013
Shortcuts
Bebo and the other mega-deals that proved to be spectacular flops
The man who sold Bebo for $850m has just bought it back for $1m, meaning an $849m loss for its original buyer AOL. But it's not the only example of such a disaster in the business world
Bebo founder pays $1m to buy back site sold for $850m
Michael Birch aims to reinvent site that has lost most of its users since its sale to AOL in 2008
Technology blog
Bebo's co-founders need to reinvent the site after a bargain buyback
Jemima Kiss
Jemima Kiss: AOL bought the site from Michael and Xochi Birch for $850m in 2008 – now they have it back for $1m and a mess to sort out
May 2012
Business leader
Facebook investors hoping for a second bite of the Apple effect have arrived too late
Business leader: Zuckerberg's company is going to have to end the internet's free-love era in the way that Apple spurned "homebrew" computing in order to justify its valuation
April 2012
Battle for the internet
A life online: 'For my generation it's just normal, you get up and check Facebook'
Rosie Hickland, 17, is a student
March 2012
Greenslade
Hacking book: newspapers should use Facebook content more carefully
Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade presents a further extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial. This one is by Glenda Cooper
February 2012
Apps blog
Apps Rush: Final Fantasy Tactics, Chelsea FC, Bebo Mobile, Bon Appétit, Movellas and more
Stuart Dredge: What's new on the app stores on Thursday 23 February 2012
September 2011
Facebook is a monopoly, so why shouldn't it be nationalised?
David Mitchell
PDA
Angry Birds to drop in to Dublin Web Summit in form of Rovio CEO
June 2011
SeeSaw targeted by Bebo buyers
Online TV service close to being bought by US investment firm Criterion Capital Partners. By Mark Sweney
December 2010
Tech Weekly
Tech Weekly: Review of 2010
An up and down year for both Google and Apple, 2010's big games and significant political developments in the tech world all feature in our annual review
September 2010
PDA
AOL buys TechCrunch - but can it really contain Mike Arrington?
Jemima Kiss
Deal goes through for $25m – but can Arrington last three years at the reincarnated AOL? By Jemima Kiss
Paedophile postman jailed for grooming or abusing 500 children
Police believe Michael Williams may have had up to 1,000 victims he met on rounds, through football or on Facebook
Bebo hires Xbox co-creator Kevin Bachus as traffic figures show rise
Bachus, one of four Microsoft executives behind console, to be chief product officer of troubled social network. By Mark Sweney
