Archive for September, 2009

Dream Job: MySpace’s Tom Gets $500k Per Year to Stop Coming to Work

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

We’ve been covering the ongoing meltdown at MySpaceMySpaceMySpace from a variety of angles, including last week’s US job cuts and today’s big international layoffs. Another ongoing question has been the fate of Tom, co-founder of the social network and default friend to everyone who signs up.

Trying to Evade Taxes? You Might Want to Avoid Social Media

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

State Internal Revenue Service agents have a new tool in their war against tax deadbeats: social media. From mining information on social networking sites like Facebook (Facebook) and MySpace (MySpace), authorities in Minnesota, Nebraska, California and other states have been able to successfully collect back taxes according to a report in ...

MySpace Helps News Corp Lose $363 Million

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

News Corp., which owns FOX, The New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets, hasn’t been doing so well in the last year. The company’s net income was $5.4 billion in the 2008 fiscal year, but the numbers they released this afternoon for 2009 show the company ...

MySpace Acquires Music Sharing Service iLike

Monday, September 7th, 2009

MySpace just announced that it has acquired iLikeIlikeIlike, a service that allows users to listen to and share music across social networks, as well as through an iTunes plugin (see some earlier coverage here and here). iLike claims more than 50 million users in all across social networks.

MySpace Makes Room for iLike

Friday, September 4th, 2009

If LinkedIn More about LinkedIn is for professionals and Facebook More about Facebook is for friends, then MySpace More about MySpace is still the social network destination for teens/young adults to sing the praises of the rock bands that they love. To that end, MySpace announced Wednesday that it would ...

Facebook, MySpace grab big slice of display ads

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

FACEBOOK and MySpace are responsible for a large chunk of web ads, according to a new report. The report by analytics firm comScore claims one of every five internet display ads in the US is viewed on a social networking website, according to a new report.

How to View Private Myspace Profiles

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

We all notice that if you are a MySpace user, you've come across some profiles that you're dying taboo to view but only to catch out that they're set to private. You realize that the simply way to view their profile is to add them as a friend and hope ...

MySpace Tweaks

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

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