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SINA Tech News Beijing time on the morning of December 10, according to foreign media reports, the United States social networking site Friendster announced today that it will be sold to Malaysia company MOL. Previously there was media coverage that Tencent and thousand oak interactive also participate in the bid for the established social networking sites. Friendster and MOL today in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, a signing ceremony, MOL CEO GaneshKumar Bangah, said the company expected Friendster will bring each year for their income. 1.1 Valuation 2.1 million Friendster was established in 2002, as early as the late comers of Facebook and MySpace. At present, the company's users mainly in Asia, with its 100 million users in more than half coming from the area. Friendster is headquartered in California, United States. There have been reports that Friendster has six years ago rejected Google's acquisition of 3000 million. Prior to this invocation is not named media sources say that Friendster will price more than 1 billion sale to an Asian listed companies. United States well-known technology blog TechCrunch in July on Friendster make 2.1 million valuation. Friendster CEO Richard · Kimber (RichardKimber) said the company's majority buy are from Asia, "there are few companies are negotiating with us. " He said of the Morgan Stanley has employed. Friendster profiles Friendster since March 2003, after the launch of a cannon and crazy, just a few months developing the four million registered users, and a year later doubled to reach 8 million registered users, the peak period each week 20 million new users to join, allegedly at the Silicon Valley each three almost one person in the use of the Friendster service. United States media had reported that social network has launched the second unit of the wave of the Internet. Since then, a large number of imitators turned out, on a global scale has social networking craze. Friendster as early as July began looking for buyers, the website presented to potential acquirer summary fact sheet in that its global registered users more than 1 billion people, preaching Friendster in the Asia-Pacific region's influence and the bright future, and Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and other major markets, the number of Internet users is expected in the next few years will maintain its high growth. Friendster also indicated that the daily Web site could attract 10 million new users, the average daily page views up to 5 million times; the user flow calculation, the site may be ranked among the global top 20 Web sites. File display, Friendster has 105 people in Australia, the United States, the Philippines and Singapore, etc.