Blogs Posts in News category; 436 blog posts

MySpace Music Nears Deal With Sony BMG, Warner

According to reports, MySpace is very close to signing a music deal with Warner Music Group, as well as Sony BMG. MySpace has plans to launch a music service later in 2008, and are close to signing on with the two major music labels. The [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace Applications Gallery goes Public but in Beta Version

Social networking site MySpace has opened up a test version of its application gallery. This service will allow members to install applications developed by third party developers. Recently, precisely in the first week of February 2008, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

Youku collaborates with MySpace China

Video sharing service Youku.com has announced that they are now collaborating with MySpace China for expansion in this market. Youku.com is one of the rivals to YouTube in this market and the two companies would work on driving Internet [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace signs deal with Five

Five News, headed by Natasha Kaplinsky, is now going to be available on MySpace. The deal is claimed to be the first of its kind and will enable the social networking site and a national news channel to exchange content. A MySpace spoke [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace to host Five news bulletin

Channel Five has struck a deal with MySpace to launch a youth-focused version of Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky. The deal, which Five claims is the first between a UK news broadcaster and a social networking website, will see the launch [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace launches new online safety initiatives

MySpace announced yesterday (Thursday, March 6th) the launch of new initiatives to promote online safety awareness. Among these steps, the website has produced a public service announcement entitled Don´t Stop the Dialogue, which com [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

FaceBook & MySpace Planning iTunes Assault

If the Financial Times has its facts right social networking could be set for its next evolutionary step... The unashamedly pink paper claims both FaceBook and MySpace are currently in separate discussions with the 'Big Four' music lab [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace Co-Founder Buys Revver

Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace.com and founder of LiveUniverse, an online entertainment network, announced that his company has acquired ailing video-sharing site Revver. Mr. Greenspan said in a statement that he plans to merge the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace gets its own MTV show, but only in the U.K.

News Corp.'s MySpace and Viacom's MTV are partnering again, and this time it's on a weekly TV show. But the program, a countdown show called MySpace Chart, will only air on the U.K. network MTV Two (the equivalent of the U.S. MTV2 channel) [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

From MySpace to YourSpace

Two years ago, Chris DeWolfe, the co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, was talking about international expansion with Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation bought the social networking site in 2005. According to Mr. DeWolfe, an ent [...]

Posted On : Jan, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

MySpace, N.C. plan for minor safety

New measures undertaken to protect minors using the social networking site MySpace have drawn criticism for containing loopholes that could still allow children to be contacted by online predators. N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper co-chair [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2008 | Comments : 0