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Murdoch on MySpace: ‘We Screwed Up in Every Way Possible’
As MySpace signals its return to relevance with a new WebTV service (just weeks after unveiling a Facebook-integrated music player), the social networking site’s former owner — Rupert Murdoch — admits News Corp. “screwed up” …
Social Networking Meets Television with MySpace TV
Web TV has a new face today, and it’s not Google, Apple or any of the other brands we’ve been hearing might launch a television service. No, the new future of Web TV apparently belongs to MySpace. (Really!)
Launching this …
What Will 2012 Mean for Social Media?
On the one hand, it’s easy to predict where social media’s going over the next 12 months: more of the same, with the sublime, ridiculous and mundane occurring in equal amounts, both reaffirming and quashing our faith in humanity …
MySpace Returns with Facebook-Integrated Music Player
Not content to remain in the history books as the social network that people flocked to between Friendster and Facebook, MySpace has apparently decided to become the new Spotify with the release of its first major product since …
Tila, Quarterlife and $#*!: Why Social Media and Old Media Don’t Mix
The news that Warner Bros. has purchased a movie pitch as the result of posts made on Reddit shouldn’t come as a surprise to many people; if there’s one thing that social media has proven over the years, it’s that it exists as fodder for the creation of “mainstream” media like movies, television shows and music—as well as numerous news …
Could What Happened to MySpace Happen to Facebook?
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
Social networks have been in the news lately. Last month MySpace was sold and we learned that Justin Timberlake and his partners have decided to …
Myspace Sold for $35 Million with ‘Significant Reduction’ of Staff Imminent
Myspace has been purchased by an advertising outfit called Specific Media to the tune of $35 million, reports All Things D.
The once-ubiquitous social networking site was acquired by News Corp. back in 2005 for $580 million, with All Things D adding that the $35 million sale price “is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had …
Could Facebook and Spotify Succeed Where Other Music Services Fail?
Of all of Apple’s failures, one of the tech company’s more disastrous was its move into social music sharing with Ping. Things got so bad that Lady Gaga, the social network’s face, publically called the results “underwhelming,” while Apple’s once-promising service didn’t even warrant a mention during WWDC earlier this …
Vevo CEO: We’re Not Buying MySpace
Despite reports to the contrary, Vevo is not in talks to buy MySpace from News Corp. So says the one person who ought to know: Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff.
“It’s not something I can really talk about,” Caraeff told PaidContent when asked about MySpace, “I’ve seen that reported. Our strategy is to focus on growing organically, building a …
MySpace Sued For Releasing User Info To Third Parties
One of these days, News Corp may get some good news from ailing social network MySpace, but today’s not that day: The media monolith’s being sued for sharing user data with third parties without consent. This, despite claiming it told users access to such information was restricted.
The class-action lawsuit, Virtue vs. Myspace Inc., …
Apple, Comcast, Others Dissed Over Government Privacy
Apple, Comcast, MySpace, Skype and Verizon are most willing to throw users under the bus when it comes to privacy, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Looking to rally users around the issue of privacy, the EFF has drawn up a handy chart for how tech companies respond to government requests for data. The advocacy group has also …