Bebo Social Network to Integrate Microsoft Instant Messaging

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 21, 2007 - 2:50pm.

London - U.K.-based social network Bebo announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Microsoft to integrate the company's instant messaging service into its network in the fall. The deal is Microsoft's first for instant messaging with a social network, and will allow Bebo's 36 million users to display Windows Live Messenger, IM with friends from directly within Bebo, and import and export the contacts between the services.