Monster Closing Down Social Networking Site Tickle
This story was written by Rafat Ali.
Monster is closing down its career assessment and social networking site Tickle, which it bought in 2004 for a price of up to $70 million. Tickle, of those annoying banner ads asking you to take those tests, also owned Ringo, a photo and video-sharing site (started, interestingly, by Bebo founder Michael Birch, who sold it to Tickle in 2003) , and LoveHappens, an online dating site. All of these will be absorbed into Affinity Labs, a network of vertical career sites recently acquired by Monster, according to this April story. It will also lay off about 30-35 of the employees by end of this month. Meanwhile, Monster sent out an e-mail today to that effect, announcing the closure of Tickle, reports SAI.
By Rafat Ali