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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A sports collectible company called Memory Lane Inc. of Tustin, Calif., has filed suit against Seattle-based Classmates.com and its parent company, United Online Inc., over the rebranding of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The parent company for Classmates.com has settled a consumer protection lawsuit alleging the website did not properly inform its users regarding automatic subscription renewals, the San Diego County ...

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 ...