Updated: MySpace Making Big Layoff Ahead Of Sale Or Downscale?
With MySpace on borrowed time in News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is the once-mighty social network due to make further cutbacks? Read more »
What Chatroulette And Sarah Palin Have In Common
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The seemingly never-ending death spiral of the phenomenon known as Chatroulette took yet another sad 360 with the unveiling via Twitter of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.04.11
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» Still in the middle of a long turnaround amid constant rumors that parent News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). wants to sell it off, MySpace… Read more »
News Corp. Digital Sell-Off Continues With Fox Mobile Group
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The latest in News Corp.’s yearlong divestitures in its digital unit is Fox Mobile Group, which the conglomerate announced Wednesday was sol… Read more »
Google And MySpace Extend Ad Deal
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MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are once again extending their search and advertising partnership, this time for several years o… Read more »
Zynga’s David Ko On Mobile M&A, Future Platforms, And Google
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Zynga, the darling of online social games with 45 million daily active users, has been a relatively late entrant in the mobile space, with i… Read more »
MySpace Launches New Mobile Website, App
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) giveth, and News Corp. taketh away. On the same day that we learn about one division, Fox Mobile, downsizing staff, w… Read more »
Chase Carey Likes MySpace So Much He’s Willing To Sell It
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) COO Chase Carey already expressed frustration over the performance MySpace on the conglomerate’s last earnings call e… Read more »
Jason Hirschhorn Joins New MGM Board
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Former MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) co-president Jason Hirschhorn has been named to the new board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, marking another sto… Read more »
MySpace ‘Mashup’ Integrates With Facebook
One more nail was driven into MySpace’s former identity as a social network with Thursday’s announcement of an integration that allows Faceb… Read more »
Facebook, MySpace Making Joint Announcement Thursday
MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) and Facebook plan to make a joint announcement Thursday on an unspecified venture, according to an invitation issued by… Read more »
Facebook E-Mail As Gmail Killer? Unlikely
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It’s now apparently an open secret that Facebook will launch some sort of e-mail service at an event Monday. TechCrunch, which had reported… Read more »
Andreessen Horowitz Backs Imeem Founder’s Mixed Media Labs
Mixed Media Labs, which is behind picplz, an online and mobile app that lets users add special effects to photos, has raised $5 million from… Read more »
News Corp. Measuring MySpace By Quarters But Digital Publishing Has Longer Leash
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Chase Carey used the same language to set two very different timescales for some of his key businesses during News Corp.’s Wednesday analyst… Read more »
News Corp’s Carey: MySpace’s Ongoing Losses ‘Not Acceptable Or Sustainable’
Continued MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) declines pulled down News Corp.’s digital media group earnings again in its first quarter, meaning operating l… Read more »
Former News Corp. Dealmaker Lang To Miramax As CEO?
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A big day for ex-*News Corp*. execs. First, Ross Levinsohn signs with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) as EVP-Americas. Now Mike Lang, who played a key ro… Read more »
It’s Official: Ross Levinsohn Joins Yahoo As Hilary Schneider’s Successor
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Ross Levinsohn is coming in from the investment cold for one of the top jobs at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), EVP-Yahoo Americas. The ex-News Corp (NS… Read more »
MySpace Second Act Recasts Entertainment In Starring Role
Forgive yourself if you forget about your friends on the new version of MySpace: entertainment is your new BFF on News Corp.’s update of the… Read more »
News Corp. To Take Equity Stake In The Rubicon Project In Exchange For FAN
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) is prepping a deal to fold the Fox Audience Network (FAN) in with ad optimizer The Rubicon Project, with the deal set… Read more »
MySpace Gets A New Entertainment And Video Head
MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which has overhauled its management in recent months, has a new head of entertainment and video: The company has appoin… Read more »
Naspers Buys ‘Controlling Interest’ In Social Networing Site Multiply.com
Naspers, the South African media company which owns stakes in a number of digital properties, including Facebook-backer Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
Samsung’s Response To iTunes Is Coming Soon
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Samsung is getting ready to combine both state-of-the-art mobile phone design with an entire content strategy in recognition that in order t… Read more »
MySpace Hires Former AOL Exec As SVP Of Business Development
MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which has overhauled its management team in recent months and is preparing for a major relaunch of its site, has hired… Read more »
MySpace Lets Users Sync Profiles With Facebook
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Almost a year after reports first came out that Facebook and MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) were working on a deal that would let MySpace users share c… Read more »
Social Chat Startup Threadbox Confirms Sale To MySpace
News Corp.’s MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) has finalized a deal to buy certain, unspecified assets of social messaging platform Threadbox. Venturebeat… Read more »
News Corp. To Integrate Fox Audience Network Into MySpace
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News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) is answering some questions about the future of its Fox Audience Network now that president Adam Bain has left for Tw… Read more »
Zynga Hires Van Natta As EVP
Zynga has hired Owen Van Natta, the MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) and Facebook veteran, as its EVP of business operations, as the social gaming giant… Read more »
Facebook Ad Revenues Expected To Reach $1.2 Billion This Year
Facebook has once again caused eMarketer to revise its ad spending projections significantly upward, while rival MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which… Read more »
MySpace Taps Pereira & O
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MySpace Ad Dip Drags Down News Corp’s Digital Media Group
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News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) blamed “lower search and advertising revenues at MySpace” for higher Q4 and full-year operating losses in its digital… Read more »
MySpace Sales Exec Courtin Returns To MTVN
MTV has reorganized the heads of its Integrated Marketing Group with the return of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) sales executive Angela Courtin to the… Read more »
MySpace To Acquire Social Chat Service Threadbox’s Assets
MySpace is finalizing a deal with social messaging platform Threadbox that involves transferring the service’s staff and assets to the News… Read more »
Yet Another Change At The Top Of MySpace: Co-President Hirschhorn Leaving
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… Read more »
MySpace Calls For Branding Help In Advance Of Site Relaunch
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It’s no secret MySpace could use some help with its image these days, so the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). social net is putting out a formal call… Read more »
Can Rupert Murdoch Remain King Of Content?
By Charles Arthur: Content is king, as we so often hear. The problem is, the internet is a republic; which means that the most exalted conte… Read more »
MySpace: We’re ‘Very Happy’ For Facebook To Get In To Music
With MySpace (NYSE: NWS) having bought iLike and imeem, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) likely to launch a subscription service out of Lala’s ashes and G… Read more »
Facebook Provides Tools To Make Android Apps More Social
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This time it is Facebook that allowing developers to integrate social networking into their Android applications. Last week, it was MySpace… Read more »
News Corp’s Carey: ‘Clearly, MySpace Lost Its Way’
News Corp.’s digital focus rests primarily on ways to make money from extending its TV programming, movies, newspapers and other properties,… Read more »
MySpace Pulls The Plug On Social Media Incubator Slingshot Labs
MySpace is finally winding down News Corp (NYSE: NWS). social media incubator Slingshot Labs after a slow death. Valleywag, which broke the… Read more »
MySpace: No Plans To Charge For Music Streams, Mobile Is Audience Driver
After some good-natured tangling with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, the site’s founder Michael Ar… Read more »
