Archive for November, 2009

Rihanna to perform in NYC for MySpace

Monday, November 30th, 2009

MySpace Music is excited to host a special performance by Rihanna on Thursday, December 3 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City as part of "THE RELEASE," MySpace Music's urban music concert series. This installment of "THE RELEASE" will be a special performance to mark the release of Rihanna's upcoming ...

How To Get Famous In Myspace

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

MySpace is one of the best social networking websites to rely on if you have a product or service that you wish to advertise. This is because MySpace has a wide variety of users with equally dynamic needs that your product or service can fill in. It is not an ...

Colorcube Games launches Vida Rock on MySpace

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Colorcube Games, a brazilian company dedicated to develop online games, has launched Vida Rock on MySpace. Vida Rock is a music themed game available on MySpace, in the game players create their characters, develop their skills, form bands with their friends and play at many shows and events to acquire popularity ...

MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most ...

Indie Artists Waits, Bjork Come To MySpace Music

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Independent label artists Bjork and Tom Waits are coming to MySpace Music. The joint venture between the News Corp. social networking site and major recording companies said Monday it signed a deal with London-based Merlin, a music rights licensing agency that represents more than 12,000 independent labels.

Myspace signs landmark deal with the indies

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

MYSPACE has settled a year-long dispute with independent record companies in a landmark deal that will allow artists including Artic Monkeys to charge for tracks on the social networking site’s music service. Myspace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corporation, launched its music service in the US ...

MySpace acquired Imeem

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

MySpace on Wednesday acquired social-networking site Imeem for an undisclosed sum, but sources with knowledge of the deal say is worth about $8 million. The News Corp.-owned MySpace has agreed to pay $1 million in cash, but the total figure also includes money for accounts receivable and employee earn outs. ...

Live Stream Is on Myspace!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Can't be at the Premiere @ Westwood, LA? No worries, MySpace has the luxury of bring you everything New Moon! Over at New Moon Premiere they will be having live streaming of red carpet events of New Moon in LA, California. Grab a chance to spot your favourite New Moon stars, ...

Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

IDG News Service - Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos. The simple coding errors are alarming considering the extent to which social networks have gone to reassure their users that their ...

Britney Spears’ Twitter, MySpace accounts hacked

Friday, November 13th, 2009

NEW YORK – Britney Spears' Twitter and MySpace accounts have apparently been hacked. Messages on her Twitter profile Thursday purported to be from the 27-year-old pop star and claimed she worshipped the devil. The handful of unusual messages were deleted after Spears' management regained control of the account.