Ning

White Label Social Network Service Ning Raises $60 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 21, 2008 - 6:47am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Ning, a free service that lets users create their own online social networks, has raised a $60 million fourth round of venture capital financing from unnamed investors, PaidContent.org reported.

Last.fm Launches OpenSocial Music Application for Ning

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 15, 2007 - 1:24pm.

London - Social music discovery service Last.fm, a unit of CBS (NYSE: CBS), on Thursday released a music application for the 122,000 communities on Ning, a collection of niche social networks. Users of the Ning platform will be able to add Last.fm's application, which displays favorite artists and allows site visitors to launch a radio station based on any of the user's chosen artists. The application was designed to take advantage of Google's (NASD: GOOG) new OpenSocial standard, which will allow such applications to run across a variety of social networks, blogs and websites.

Online Social Network Creation Platform Ning Raises $44 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 10, 2007 - 8:17am.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Ning, a free platform that lets anyone create their own online social network, has raised $44 million in its first round of outside funding, led by Legg Mason, the company said on its blog.

Ning Lets Users Create Own Social Networks

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 27, 2007 - 1:17pm.

Palo Alto, Calif. - Ning on Tuesday announced the launch of a new version of its free platform that allows anyone to create their own online social network.