Justin Timberlake’s leadership sparks reemergence of MySpace

It was over 450 days ago, June 2011, that Chris and Tim Vanderhook bought MySpace. Monday, in Los Angeles, they were joined by investor Justin Timberlake to unveil the new look for more than 800 company employees. The main point, as the trio reiterated in an exclusive chat...

Myspace Claims 1 Million New Users in past Month

Myspace Bouncing Back? Myspace Says 'Yes' Maybe Justin Timberlake really is bringing Myspace back. The floundering social network, jettisoned by all the cool kids in favor of Facebook, is claiming to have signed up a...

Is Justin Timberlake Bringing MySpace Back?

Justin Timberlake recently played the Napster creator/Facebook investor didgital-age tycoon Sean Parker in last year’s “The Social Network.” Now the singer turned actor turned entrepreneur has bought a stake...

Massive loss for MySpace for 2011

The rapid decline of MySpace continues with more bad news.After losing 14% of their audience in a month's time, the social network had further bad news that was related from a document passed around by parent...

Myspace Layoffs: Half of Staff to Be Fired on Jan 11

Myspace to Lay Off Up to 600 Staff Myspace will lay off between 550 and 600 staff on January 11. These layoffs will cut Myspace's overall staff count in half. Myspace, which is trying to rebrand itself as a content...

MySpace Announces 'Mashup with Facebook'

MySpace Announces 'Mashup': Facebook Feed Integration The joint MySpace-Facebook announcement indeed involved an integration of Facebook connectivity into MySpace. MySpace CEO Mike Jones and Favebook VP  Dan...

Facebook-MySpace Joint Announcement: Nov 18

Facebook and MySpace to Make Joint Announcement on Nov 18 MySpace CEO Mike Jones and Facebook VP of Partnerships and Platform Marketing Dan Rose will make a joint announcement on November 18 at noon PDT via webcast....

Fully Customize your YouTube, MySpace, LiveStream and Twitter!

  Did you know that with very little effort you can have a fully customized YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace and LiveStream account in a matter of a few minutes. Check out www.Custom-Page.com for dozens of...

Salt Lake City Schools to Ban Student-Teacher Facebook Friending

Granite School District in Salt Lake City, Utah plans to ban students and teachers from friending each other on Facebook. The district has proposed a policy in hopes of preventing inappropriate relationships...

Spokeo.com Posting Your Personal Info for Use by Online Scammers

A new website called Spokeo.com is compiling personal information from phonebooks, public, financial, real estate records, Facebook and MySpace, and is then posting it on their website as a virtual rolodex. Their...

GRAVITY LAUNCHES

Will this new “interest-network” take off in 2010? Gravity (formerly Blue Rover Labs) is a start-up helmed by three former MySpace executives. Their aim is to reinvent forums by applying their proprietary analytics engine on conversations and monetize them via highly...

MySpace Music makes UK debut in a bid to boost site's popularity

" The website, which has been losing users over the last year in the UK, according to the latest Nielsen data, is actively repositioning itself as a site which provides entertainment content – around which...

MySpace Looking to Buy Imeem

MySpace, that Diplodocus of social media sites, is in talks to buy Imeem, which currently supplies streaming and sharing technology to MySpace. News Corp, who owns MySpace, is looking for a way to get MySpace back...

Electronic Arts Acquires Social Gaming Company Playfish For $400m

Electronic Arts (EA) has acquired the rights to Playfish, a social gaming company in a deal that could be worth up to $400 million. This should prove to be lucrative for EA as Playfish has already gained great...

TweetDeck iPhone App Goes Missing, Returns With 1.1.1 Version

TweetDeck, a popular iPhone application is currently missing from the iPhone app store. The popular app, usually featured within the store, has completely disappeared for the time being. TweetDeck 1.1 was...

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