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Tom Anderson

Charting MySpace From Hot To Not

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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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

MySpace Update: Van Natta CEO Announcement Today

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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Posted In: Companies, News Corp., Fox, Fox Interactive Media, MySpace, chris dewolfe, jon miller, owen van natta, tom anderson

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