Archive for the ‘MySpace’ Category
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
MySpace and MTV are teaming up to stream live videos of interviews with celebrities like Seth Rogen, Jeff Bridges, Michael Cera and the cast of Glee plus sneak peeks at unreleased entertainment during Comic-Con this weekend.
The programming will stream at MTV.com and the MySpace Comic-Con page starting Thursday, July 22 ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
News Corp is in talks with Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc about advertising on MySpace, as an existing contract with Google ends, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Under a 2006 deal, Google had guaranteed $900 million to News Corp for the right to sell advertisements related to ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MySpace just made some major announcements. They've announced plans to develop mobile applications for the Nokia S60 as well as the much-anticipated Palm Pre. However, for most of us, the bigger news is the relaunch of the MySpace Mobile web site which will ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
MySpace officially launched its MySpace Data Availability Project today, the company’s previously announced “data portability” initiative that allows users to optionally share their public profile data with participating sites, along with their MySpace photos, MySpaceTV videos and friend lists.
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Dmitry Shapiro, last seen mourning the end of Veoh, has a new gig: Today is his first day as chief technology officer at MySpace Music.
It’s not a huge shock to see former start-up CEOs join big companies after the demise of their own. But this move is a bit more ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its users' privacy concerns, Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn't even asked for the info.
Facebook isn't alone this time: rival social-media site MySpace has also been called out in Friday's Wall Street Journal report by ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
The man responsible for unleashing what is believed to be the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges stemming from his most infamous hacking.
Samy Kamkar, who was 19 when he unleashed the attack on MySpace.com in October 2005, was sentenced to three ...
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
High profile Myspace exec Dani Dudeck has departed her role protecting the social network's global reputation and joined Zynga. Leaving her vice president of global communications position behind her, Dudeck is to stand as Zynga's global manager of corporate communications.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Why not go down the pub' instead, says the Modfather.
Paul Weller has criticised people who "spend all evening" on Facebook and MySpace.
The former Jam singer told the Independent that although he enjoys using modern technology to record songs, social networking sites are "bullshit".
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Well-known tech entrepreneurs and twin brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi are leaving MySpace, in a high-profile departure for the struggling social-networking company.
Internal memos about the executive change, were sent around to staff Tuesday afternoon, said sources.
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