BRIGHTSOLID ACQUIRES FRIENDS REUNITED

6th August 2009
BRIGHTSOLID ACQUIRES FRIENDS REUNITED
brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million. The completion of the deal is subject to clearance by the competition authorities.
brightsolid is a fast growing online innovation business owned by DC Thomson, one of the largest privately owned media and publishing [...]

FRIENDS REUNITED ADDS NEW FEATURES IN LATEST SITE RELEASE

Friends Reunited continues to add new features to its social networking site following the successful uptake of its recently launched Groups section. The latest site release, which went live this week, sees the addition of a chat function and photo tagging, enriching the experience for its 21m members.
 
The instant chat function enables members to converse [...]

FRIENDS REUNITED APPOINTS COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR

Friends Reunited today announced that Craig Nayman has joined as Commercial Director. Craig will look to secure key partnerships across a range of content verticals on Friends Reunited.
Friends has been steadily growing traffic to its verticals since going free to users in May 2008 and since launching user-generated groups in October 2008. Overall unique users [...]

FRIENDS REUNITED PARTNER WITH DK EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDES

Friends Reunited today announced that it has partnered with DK Eyewitness to offer its members content from the DK Eyewitness Top 10 series.
Friends Reunited have licensed the content of 20 best-selling city guides, including Top 10 Paris, Barcelona, Dubai, Prague, Rome and Sydney.
Written by expert authors, the DK Eyewitness content reveals the highlights of each [...]

FAMILY MORE IMPORTANT THAN PRESENTS OR BOOZE THIS CHRISTMAS

New research from Friends Reunited proves the Christmas spirit is alive and kicking in Britain today
Family is the most important part of Christmas for 64% of Brits, according to research out today from social network Friends Reunited. Only one in five of us claim to associate the season more strongly with drinking or getting presents [...]