Toronto: Will rival research engines do to Google what Facebook did to MySpace? That's possible after US antitrust regulators last month started investigations against the search engine for abusing its dominant market position, say experts. The US action is the second antitrust investigation against the search engine after the EU launched first such action against Google last year. "Google's position is more precarious than it first appears. If consumers and...
12:10 PM, Jul 19, 2011
Los Angeles: Justin Timberlake's longtime manager Johnny Wright said Friday that a talent show or some other way of developing new artists will be core to the revamp of Myspace. The kernel of an idea is what has emerged from a frenzied two weeks of deal-making that brought the former 'N Sync pop star into a partnership with new buyers of the ailing website. "Whether it becomes a talent competition...
09:31 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Los Angeles: As it turns out, Justin Timberlake's role as Napster founder Sean Parker in The Social Network was a wink and nod to the celebrity's little publicized role in driving Silicon Valley start-ups. But his involvement in the technology industry drew public notice this week with news that Timberlake, whose character in the Oscar-nominated movie helped shape Facebook's early days, will take a stake in Myspace, the ailing social...
08:49 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Los Angeles: Justin Timberlake apparently wasn't satisfied with just playing a social media impresario in the movies, so now he's becoming one in real life. The pop star, who played Napster co-founder Sean Parker in "The Social Network," a movie about Facebook, has joined Specific Media in buying its downtrodden rival, MySpace, from News Corp. in a deal that closed Wednesday. Timberlake will have an office at MySpace's Beverly Hills...
11:34 AM, Jun 30, 2011
New York: News Corp has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based start-ups is enjoying sky-high valuations. Advertising company Specific Media will team with the singer Justin Timberlake to acquire Myspace in a deal that caps a tumultuous period of ownership under Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which swooped in to buy Myspace for...
08:32 AM, Jun 30, 2011
New York: An investor group including Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick is in final talks to take a controlling stake in News Corp's social network site Myspace, according to three people familiar with the matter. Kotick's involvement is personal and nothing to do with Activision at this stage, the people said. Kotick was approached by the investor group in recent weeks and has not yet made a full...
08:40 AM, Jun 10, 2011
London: Common words from Indian cuisines such as keema, aloo and gobi, and slangs like thang, innit and grrl have made their way to the latest Scrabble lexicon. The Collins Official Scrabble Words also now includes words from the Internet such as Wiki and Myspace among nearly 3,000 new additions to those allowed in the popular word game played across the world. Others permitted include words for various kinds of...
02:30 PM, May 09, 2011
New York: As Rupert Murdoch stepped into the Grand Ballroom of San Francisco's Palace Hotel at the Web 2.0 conference in October 2007, the developers and engineers who packed the room fell into a respectful hush. It was the sort of greeting usually reserved for one of their own tech heroes, not a 76-year-old media mogul. Sitting cross-legged on a red leather couch, Murdoch looked relaxed in an open-necked shirt....
11:25 AM, Apr 09, 2011
London: For a virtually unknown 16-year-old British ukulele player and singer, Misty Miller already boasts an impressive international following. "The places in the world that know my music" South America, China and Australia," she says with slight astonishment. Miller knows this by looking at a "heatmap" generated by a new online tracking tool called Buzzdeck. Built by the London-based music distributors Artists Without A Label (AWAL), Buzzdeck is an attempt...
01:49 PM, Jan 28, 2011
New York/San Francisco: News Corp's MySpace is laying off nearly half its staff, setting the stage for a sale of the former Internet social networking leader as is it refocuses as an entertainment site. The restructuring affects about 500 employees, or 47 per cent of the company, and comes after weeks of speculation on technology blogs about the cuts. People close to News Corp have said privately that the media...
12:43 PM, Jan 12, 2011
New York: News Corp is still considering a sale of its social networking site MySpace but a person familiar with the matter told Reuters there are no talks currently with potential buyers. CNBC business television reported on Monday that News Corp is on course to sell MySpace by mid-2011, citing sources. The Los Angeles-based company will also lay off more than half of its staff as management seeks to accelerate...
06:20 AM, Jan 04, 2011
New York: MySpace, the online social hub that's been fighting to stay relevant in the age of Facebook and Twitter, is overhauling its image and its website into an entertainment destination for its mostly younger audience. The social-networking pioneer, which was among the top Internet sites just a few years ago, now has its sights set decidedly lower. Starting Wednesday and over the next month, MySpace will be relaunching its...
02:12 PM, Oct 27, 2010
Half of Americans who have a profile on social networking sites are worried about their privacy, says a new poll. ...
11:14 AM, Jul 16, 2010
Although MySpace has focused more on entertainment such as music, it has steadily seen its visitor numbers drop. ...
04:02 PM, Jul 08, 2010
Owen Van Natta, a former Facebook executive, joined MySpace in April 2009. ...
09:58 AM, Feb 11, 2010
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