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:…
Posted In: Features, Infographic, Media & Publishing, Social Media, Community, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, chris dewolfe, jason hirschhorn, mike jones, owen van natta, richard rosenblatt, ross levinsohn, tom anderson
Nov 24, 2010 6:46 PM
Former MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) co-president Jason Hirschhorn has been named to the new board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, marking another stop on one of the media business’ more unpredictable but interesting career arcs.
Posted In: Entertainment, Money, Bankruptcy, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, Viacom, MTV, jason hirschhorn
Jun 17, 2010 5:16 PM
And then there was one—at least that’s the scenario now for MySpace, which started its comeback tour last year with Owen Van Natta, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn working as an ungainly trio, tried again with Jones and Hirschhorn as a duo and may now down to Jones as a…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, jason hirschhorn
May 21, 2010 11:45 PM
Updated: Some more tidbits from the latest batch of unsealed documents in the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) copyright suit against Google/YouTube, this time from Google. Pushing its own agenda, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) highlights Viacom’s internal discussions about buying YouTube, plays up Viacom’s top lawyer’s defense of YouTube compared to Grokster; and…
Posted In: Companies, Google, YouTube, Viacom, MTV, jason hirschhorn, judy mcgrath, tom freston
May 4, 2010 8:29 PM
Maybe Ross Levinsohn had a worst-case scenario where nearly five years after the acquisition of MySpace for $580 million, top News Corp (NYSE: NWS). execs told analysts MySpace was a “work in progress” with a goal of being cash positive next year. Maybe, but if that was the case, I…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Social Media, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, chase carey, jason hirschhorn, ross levinsohn, rupert murdoch
Mar 10, 2010 4:01 AM
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) pulled up the curtain a little this week, letting in some light on a makeover still very much in progress and marking a debut of sorts for Co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn as a team. By walking reporters through their road map, the two hope to…
Posted In: Social Media, Community, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, jason hirschhorn, mike jones
Feb 10, 2010 7:47 PM
A major shake up at MySpace, where Owen Van Natta is out after less than a year. Stepping up to run the social network are the other two members of the troika brought in by Jon Miller, chairman and CEO of Digital Media for News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), last April…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, jason hirschhorn, mike jones, owen van natta
Jun 23, 2009 3:12 PM
Vince Broady, the former founder of Gamespot and former SVP of entertainment at *Yahoo*, has officially launched his new startup called ThisMoment. The San Francisco-based company has also raised about $3 million in seed funding, from some familiar digital media names like Shelby Bonnie, Mika Salmi, and Jason Hirschhorn; prior…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, jason hirschhorn, mika salmi, shelby bonnie, thismoment, vince broady
Apr 27, 2009 10:05 AM
The picture at MySpace is getting a little clearer following the rushed unseating of longtime CEO Chris DeWolfe: Owen Van Natta starts work today as CEO of the News Corp social media flagship, where he will be joined by Mike Jones, founder of Userplane, and, paidContent has learned, by Viacom…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, jason hirschhorn, mike jones, owen van natta
Jan 12, 2009 2:29 PM
Little more than a year after Sling Media’s sale to EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), the co-founders and the top team at Sling Entertainment are leaving the company, paidContent.org has learned. The news is being broken to staff in meetings going on now. Departing are brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian, respectively CEO…
Posted In: Gadgets, Industry Moves, Exclusive, blake krikorian, echostar, jason hirschhorn, jason krikorian, sling media
Nov 5, 2008 4:49 PM
Sling Media, the place- and time-shifting device company that is now owned by Echostar (NSDQ: SATS), is launching something that seems counter-intuitive on the face of it: a free, ad-supported online video portal aggregating video from various professional sources like TV networks, studios and other independents. Sling.com will launch as…
Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Satellite, Social Media, Video, echostar, jason hirschhorn, sling media, sling.com
Dec 7, 2007 11:40 AM
Stereogum founder Scott Lapatine and investors Bob Pittman, of the Pilot Group, Sling Media’s Jason Hirschhorn, have traded their equity stakes in the indie music blog for an ownership percentage of pop culture community site BuzzNet, NY Post reports. Citing an unidentified source, the deal estimated Stereogum’s value at $5…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, bob pittman, buzznet, jason hirschhorn, stereogum
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