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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 12, 2011 3:18 AM
MySpace has done what few can claim to have accomplished so far this new year: cut its weight nearly in half by slashing close to 500 jobs from the payroll. The social-network-turned-social-entertainment-hub skyrocketed to attention after its 2004 launch and by 2005 was viewed by mainstream media like Viacom (NYSE:…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 3, 2010 4:23 PM
Former MySpace (NYSE: NWS) CEO Chris DeWolfe—who left MySpace last April—is back in the social media space via the acquisition of social games portal MindJolt. DeWolfe is partnering with fellow MySpace co-founders Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, along with VC firm Austin Ventures, to buy the company. He’ll also join…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 23, 2009 7:34 PM
Updated: It’s official. *News Corp* has confirmed that Van Natta is MySpace’s new CEO. The full release is embedded after the jump. It will be completely anticlimactic by then but Kara Swisher is reporting—and I believe it to be true—that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). will announce Friday that former rival…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 22, 2009 6:46 PM
MySpace confirmed Wednesday that CEO Chris DeWolfe would step down, and that it was in discussions with Tom Anderson, everyone’s first friend on MySpace and the company’s president, about his future role at the social networking site. In a statement, the company described DeWolfe’s departure as a “mutual agreement” between…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 22, 2009 2:45 PM
*News Corp.* digital media head Jon Miller is moving swiftly—more swiftly than even he expected, I think—to take charge of the company’s most important digital asset: MySpace. Just how that will be accomplished is still playing out but it looks like it will be done without Chris DeWolfe and most…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 30, 2009 7:00 AM
Somehow it makes perfect sense that within weeks of the departure of Randy Falco from AOL (NYSE: TWX), the man he succeeded so unceremoniously as CEO will have a new job—not with *Yahoo*, *Microsoft* or any of the other options rumored while Jon Miller has played the exec version of…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 1, 2008 4:57 PM
MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe was speaking at the Reuters Media Summit (not open to other reporters, only internal Reuters reporters), and said he is cautiously optimistic about growing its ad revenues in 2009, something that of course he has to say officially. “We’re up 18 percent year-over-year as of last…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 3, 2008 1:25 PM
I spoke to Chris De Wolfe, the CEO of MySpace, on the JV announced today, and the rationale for forming a separate company on it, instead of being part of the main MySpace. —Why a separate JV and why not just be part of MySpace: The rationale was to unify…
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Rafat Ali
Nov 12, 2007 2:30 PM
Last Friday evening in Monaco, I spoke to Chris DeWolfe, the founder and CEO of MySpace, part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). on a slew of issues. A very-jetlagged DeWolfe gamely tried to answer some of my questions at the hotel restaurant, over constant interruptions by some adoring fans of…
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