Bebo
Bebo is a social network that had a strong position, especially in England in 2007 , but then fell significantly behind Facebook .
The company was founded in 2005 by the Birch couple in San Francisco , at times had 25 million members and competed with Myspace , which has been part of the News Corp. since the summer of 2005 . - belonged to the empire (until 2011).
Bebo was particularly popular in Europe and Oceania : Europeans made up 62.5 percent of the Bebo community. However, Bebo is largely unknown in many parts of Europe, such as Germany, because it was a purely English-language site for a long time.
In Great Britain, calculated on the basis of individual visits, Bebo even overtook the then world market leader Myspace in July 2007: 10.7 million Britons visited Bebo, while the figure for Myspace was 10.1 million. The third place, Facebook , had 7.6 million visits.
On March 13, 2008, the Time Warner group took over its Internet service AOL Bebo for $ 850 million. Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes rated this as the “riskiest takeover” of his company that year.
On June 17, 2010, Bebo was sold to the Californian financial investor Criterion Capital Partners at an unknown price due to the unsuccessfulness of AOL. It should have been less than ten million dollars. In 2013, Bebo founder Michael Birch bought his website back for one million dollars.
In September 2012 it became known that an investing company led by Bebo had taken over the Berlin VZ networks from Holtzbrinck Digital . Regardless of the restructuring of the company, Bebo temporarily rose to become one of the largest platforms in Germany , mainly because the SchülerVZ was shut down at the end of April 2013 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Wilkens: Report: Yahoo interested in social networking site Bebo. In: heise online . May 21, 2007, accessed September 12, 2012 .
- ↑ www.bebo.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 9, 2008 ; Retrieved November 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Wilkens: Facebook has grown faster than MySpace in the past twelve months. In: heise online . August 1, 2007, accessed September 12, 2012 .
- ^ Andreas Wilkens: Brits visited the social network Bebo more often than MySpace in July. August 15, 2007, accessed September 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Bebo social networking website sells to AOL for $ 850m. In: seekingalpha. March 14, 2008, accessed September 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Andreas Wilkens: AOL sells Bebo. In: heise online . June 17, 2010, accessed September 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Founder buys back Bebo. In: heise online . July 2, 2013, accessed July 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Lars Budde: Bebo.com takes over VZ-Netzwerk from Holtzbrinck Digital. (No longer available online.) In: t3n magazine . September 12, 2012, archived from the original on September 14, 2012 ; Retrieved September 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
