SAN FRANCISCO — United Online Inc. on Wednesday shelved what would have been the first initial public offering for a social networking site. The Woodland Hills-based Internet company cited an ...

A Classmates.com user sues, claiming no one was trying to reach him. Nov. 12, 2008— -- When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying ...

Classmates.com has agreed to refund nearly $10 million to users who were told that long-lost school chums were looking at their profiles, only to find, once they'd ponied up a subscription fee, that ...

The site set up to locate long lost pals, Classmates.com, has been hit with a class action privacy lawsuit. It alleges the company violated the law when it decided to make user profiles public to ...

Founded in 1995 by a former Boeing employee, Classmates.com was one of the original social networks. The Seattle company, which was sold to United Online in 2004 and continues to maintain a presence ...

In 2008, the social networking site Classmates.com found itself on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit that focused on its membership recruitment tactics. The company has now settled the suit ...

I've been signed up for Classmates.com for a while now. A few years back, I even signed up for their "Gold" membership, since it was my 10 year reunion, and I was helping to track down everyone. After ...

Already implicated in post-transaction marketing practices officials have called a "scam," the site is now accused of duping users into upgrading memberships. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital ...

Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Wednesday announced a settlement with Classmates and FTD, resolving allegations that the companies engaged in misleading advertising and billing practices.The ...

Michigan and 21 other states have reached an $11 million settlement with Classmates.com, Florists Transworld Delivery and its subsidiary FTD.com over deceptive advertising and billing practices.

SchoolFeed, the rapidly growing networking service from former co-founder and CEO of RockYou Lance Tokuda, has been acquired. In a not too surprising twist, the company, which leveraged Facebook to ...

Remember 1995? The future was the Internet and it was all about eyeballs. Profits would come later. Or so more than a few otherwise sane businesspeople believed at the time. Classmates.com, a ...