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  • Friends Reunited sold for £25 million

    Friends Reunited sold for £25 million

    Grade: "It's the best price we could get" 6 August 2009 15:40 GMT

    ITV has finally off-loaded struggling website Friends Reunited.

    The broadcaster sold the site for a pittance compared to what it paid for it in its hey-day back in 2005.

    Michael Grade, ITV's executive chairman, described the sale as the "best...

  • ITV losses £2.7 billion, will cut 600 jobs

    ITV losses £2.7 billion, will cut 600 jobs

    And sell Friends Reunited and Scoot 4 March 2009 10:03 GMT

    Results were expected to be bleak, but ITV has announced that write-offs from the value of its assets have meant losses of £2.7 billion.

    On the back of this, the broadcaster has confirmed it will be cutting jobs with some 600 positions to go in as-yet unconfirmed...

  • ITV considering Friends Reunited sale

    ITV considering Friends Reunited sale

    Would Facebook buy it? 16 February 2009 12:57 GMT

    ITV is considering selling Friends Reunited, a site it bought in 2005 for a deal worth £175 million overall, it's being reported.

    Although once popular, Friends Reunited has struggled to achieve the high visitor numbers it enjoyed around the time ITV bought...

  • ITV to slash Friends Reunited's value

    ITV to slash Friends Reunited's value

    Not worth £175 million 5 January 2009 13:46 GMT

    ITV is planning to write down the value of Friends Reunited, a Sunday Times report claims.

    ITV bought the website in 2005 in a deal worth £175 million overall, but is now expected to state that the company is worth much less than it paid for it.

  • ITV brings vids to Friends Reunited. Software, Online, Websites, Home Cinema, Video on demand, Video downloads, ITV, Friends Reunited 0

    ITV brings vids to Friends Reunited

    Film of users finding friends and relatives using the site 29 October 2008 12:52 GMT

    We knew that they were looking into it in August, but now ITV has confirmed that it is going to bring some of its video content to the networking website Friends Reunited.

    Videos will be added to all four of the ITV owned websites - Friends Reunited, Genes...

  • Friends Reunited looks to video to boost figures. Software, Online, Friends Reunited, ITV 0

    Friends Reunited looks to video to boost figures

    Following on from fee scrapping 5 August 2008 17:49 GMT

    ITV-owned Friends Reunited is hoping to pull in more visitors to its website with added video content.

    The social networking website has already made a radical change by scrapping the fees it used to charge subscribers before they could contact old school or...

  • Friends Reunited dumps fees. Software, Online, Friends Reunited, ITV 0

    Friends Reunited dumps fees

    Trying to catch back up with Facebook, MySpace and Bebo 2 May 2008 1:18 GMT

    Friends Reunited owners ITV have admitted defeat and ditched its fees to access information on the site.

    The site, which has since been overtaken by the likes of Facebook, MySpace and Bebo since its launch, is attempting to claw back users by removing the £5...

  • Friend Reunited to become TV show

    Website turns TV show 19 April 2006 15:28 GMT

    Friends Reunited, the online reunion site that re-connected old flames as well as enemies from our school days, is to become a television show in the UK.

    Friends Reunited: The School Run is to be broadcast from next month on ITV Play, ITV's newly launched digital...

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