Founded in 2005 by Tariq Krim and Florent Frémont, the company provided software for personalized dashboards for real-time monitoring, social analytics, knowledge sharing, and decision support.

As of 2024, the Netvibes brand comprises three French software companies acquired by Dassault Systèmes: The software is a multi-lingual Ajax-based start page or web portal.

Built-in Netvibes modules include an RSS/Atom feed reader, local weather forecasts, a calendar supporting iCal, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, multiple searches, support for POP3, IMAP4 email as well as several webmail providers including Gmail, Yahoo!

Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail, Box.net web storage, Delicious, Meebo, Flickr photos, podcast support with a built-in audio player, and several others.

Customized tabs, feeds and modules can be shared with others individually or via the Netvibes Ecosystem.