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 ...

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 ...

"Your former classmates are trying to contact you! Upgrade now to see their messages!" That's the pitch many of us have seen from Classmates.com as a lure to pony up ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This week’s E-Business Secrets continues my report on the secrets I learned from my private conversations with speakers at the Global eSubscription Symposium, sponsored by the Sandlot Corporation in ...