Google has acquired startup Katango to improve and refine the Circles friend-grouping functionality in its new social networking site Google+. Katango’s software automatically sorts users’ Facebook ...

Yee Lee has about 500 Facebook friends. Some are former co-workers, a few are close family and friends. In a June 28th interview, he told me he was excited about some new pictures he took of his young ...

Back in September we broke the news that Google was in talks to acquire Katango, a small Kleiner Perkins-backed startup that launched this past summer. Today, they’ve made it official: Katango just ...

When Google+ arrived at the end of June, it made a splash in part based on its defining notion: you have different kinds of friends and don’t want to share everything with all of them all of the time.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the number of your Facebook friends and Twitter followers grows, a new crop of online services can help you organize your social-networking buddies into ...

Google has broken out the company checkbook to acquire Katango and Apture, whose talents will be put toward Google+ and Chrome, respectively. Google has broken out the company checkbook to acquire ...

Would Google+ be a better social network if it were capable of auto-sorting your contacts into Circles? We might soon find out, because Google has acquired Katango, a maker of technologies to ...

It's not just Google that's been thinking about easing the awkwardness of social interactions with your work, school, social, family, and other types of contacts online. A new start-up called Katango ...

Internet titan Google Inc has acquired two startup firms -- Apture and Katango -- for an undisclosed amount. However, financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Google buyout of Apture is ...

The first startup financed by a fund designed for social-networking firms released an app Monday night that gives Facebook users more precise control over the content they share - even with people who ...

One such service, Katango, says it has figured out a way to automate the whole process. Katango, which has been available as a free iPhone app since July, launched a Web version on Wednesday. The ...