Have you heard? Someone’s suing Classmates.com over those e-mails it’s been blasting the world with for the past decade. My reaction? It’s about damned time. Here’s the scoop: A man from San Diego ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle’s oldest social-media network, Classmates.com, was sold Wednesday to Bellevue-based Intelius Holdings for $30 million, a big drop from the $100 million price tag Classmates carried when it ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Molly Brown on Nov 19, 2015 at 2:30 pm November 19, 2015 at 2:30 pm ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classmates.com and floral delivery company FTD have agreed to pay $11 million to resolve allegations the companies engaged in misleading advertising and billing practices. A lawsuit by 22 states ...

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 ...

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 ...