Archive for the ‘MySpace’ Category
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Check out the New Music Tuesday playlist featuring the best of today’s new jams on Myspace!
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Kanye West and Jay-Z “Watch The Throne” — After months of false starts and speculation, Kanye West and Jay-Z’s highly anticipated collaboration Watch The Throne is here and if game-changing songs like “Otis” And “Lift ...
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Sunday, August 7th, 2011
MySpace might be old hat by social networking standards, but one woman is glad the court system hasn't completely forgotten about it.
Julie Riggs received some justice in late July when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and revived her claim that News Corp., previous ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
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 ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
In 2005, MySpace was an upstart social media Web site with more than 16 million users. Young and flashy, it soon eclipsed Friendster, its main rival in the United States, among users in the most highly coveted under-30 demographic. And MySpace kept devising new features and innovative goodies for its ...
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
News Corp has doubled its profits, but its troubled MySpace site is now for sale, while increased newspaper revenues were wiped out by a drop in money from book sales.
Second-quarter net income doubled to $US642 million from last year on slightly higher revenue of $US8.76 billion. That growth came mainly ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Elisa Baker, the stepmother of missing Zahra Baker, describes herself on her MySpace page as a "Gothic" and said in one posting that "your kids rip your heart out."
Baker, 42, has been described as a "person of interest" by Hickory police in what investigators now say is a homicide case.
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
MySpace, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook, too.
That means people on Facebook can see their friends' MySpace items without leaving Facebook. It's a sign the site seeks to carve out a niche that is no longer about ...
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
With declining ad sales, a stagnant user base, and a creaky interface, the once-mighty social network has a redesign on deck, but is it enough to save the site?
Visit the MySpace offices in the News Corp. complex in Beverly Hills, and you won't see a company in crisis. Underneath the ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
MySpace has introduced new profiles for users, musicians, and celebrities. The goal, was to "clean things up", so MySpace is offering a newly designed MySpace profile and a theme gallery.
"The new profiles offer clean and easy-to-use navigation and simplified organization of content, including a consistent theme throughout profile subpages (photos, ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Australian traffic to MySpace has tanked by almost 50 per cent in the past year as its owner, News Corp, announces plans to relaunch the site to target a younger audience.
Facebook first overtook MySpace as Australia's leading social networking site in April 2008 and today it attracts about 8.7 million ...
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