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MySpace piloting social networking management tools

MySpace is set to hand over its financial information to interested buyers this week as owners News Corp look to offload the flagging website, according to AllThingsD. Although quite a number of parties have expressed an interest in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

MySpace Is Hurtling Towards Death And No One Wants To Save I...

Vanquished social network MySpace will open its books to interested buyers Wednesday. The only problem is that the books look horrible and no one is interested in buying. Over on All Things Digital, Kara Swisherrattles off a long li [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

News Corp Talks With Vevo About Myspace

It was reported this week that NY based News Corp, in attempt to reposition its social network Myspace as a hub for music, has reached out to online music video network Vevo about a possible deal. News Corp has been attempting to offload [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Sum41 Does MySpace Secret Show On Friday, Stream Online

Sum 41 will be performing a Myspace Secret Show this Friday April 1st, 2011, at Boardner’s in Hollywood CA. Joining them will be Kemble Walters and the Blank Faces. The show is All Ages and doors are at 7:30 pm and is free until th [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Myspace CEO believes in social network

Myspace has a new look and attitude. But it may not be enough to save the onetime king of social networking, which has been dethroned by Facebook and faces competition from other sites, too. Its CEO, Mike Jones, thinks so — even am [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

News Corp. Said to Approach Vevo.com About Myspace Joint Ven...

News Corp. is in talks to hand over control of Myspace to Vevo.com, the online music website partly owned by the world’s biggest record companies, according to three people with knowledge of the situation. The talks are prelim [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

The End of MySpace?

As social networks go, Facebook and Twitter are dominant. MySpace, which once was a dominant social network site, may be on the verge of collapsing. Consider that in one month MySpace lost 10 million registered users. That right, 10 mill [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

MySpace loses 10 million users in a month

The steep decline follows a further round of major redundancies at the start of 2011 and the continued growth of Facebook, which now has 30 million registered users in the UK. According to the latest comScore figures, MySpace lost 10 mil [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

MySpace Made It Really, Really Difficult To Cancel My Accoun...

If MySpace were a scorned lover, we imagine it would be the kind that would hold onto your foot as you tried to walk away, crying desperately and clinging as you unwillingly dragged it along. Justin B. was done with MySpace, but instead [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Myspace exec touts site's value to advertisers

The one-time king of social networks, Myspace, is still a valuable asset to digital marketing campaigns, despite being passed by several rivals, according to the site's chief revenue officer Nada Stirratt. Stirratt stresses that [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Myspace Streamlines Ad Sales; Unveils Self-Serve Ad Platform

Despite the uncertainty emanating from News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). about whether to sell or keep Myspace in recent months, the entertainment-focused social network is trying to keep things focused on improving the way its sells branded ad uni [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Myspace at center of killing trial

The suspects in the killing of a New Jersey gang member plotted their attack in a chat session on the social networking site Myspace, prosecutors allege. Defense attorneys in the murder conspiracy case have fought to quash evidence glean [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Trenton slaying case focuses on MySpace chats to plot killin...

Lawyers defending four men accused of plotting a gang murder on MySpace say they will fight to keep prosecutors from using records of the online chats as evidence at trial. Keith Williams, a five-star member of the Sex Money Murder set a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Following MySpace Traffic Falls, Some Top Developers Shut Do...

Since late 2008, we’ve been tracking the top 25 games, or at least game-like apps, each month for the MySpace platform (at least as well as we could, given that MySpace only shares total install numbers). MySpace has never shown th [...]