Google Wins $900m MySpace Deal
News Google has won a highly prized deal with MySpace.com to serve Web search and advertising listings to the nearly 100 million members of the News Corp-owned social network, besting rival Yahoo in the bid.
[August 8, 2006, 17:45]
News Corp Cleared To Purchase Intermix
News One blogger fears that News Corp will "load [MySpace] with Fox News advertisements, censorship filters, and ban anyone who speaks out against… their agenda. Intermix, which will merge with News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media, owns the popular...
[August 23, 2005, 16:10]
Facebook Overtakes MySpace Globally
News MySpace, owned by News Corp since 2005, nevertheless remains far ahead of Facebook in the US, where both companies are based. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new...
[June 23, 2008, 13:06]
Social Networks - Future Portal Or Fad?
News Since launching three years ago, MySpace, now owned by News Corp.has added email, instant messaging and blog services, as well as jobs, video, book and music stores. Social networks like MySpace and Facebook are the zeitgeist for online executives...
[June 14, 2006, 15:10]
Jobs Hailed As Most Powerful Person In Business
News Media mogul and head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch was placed at number two, in part due to his company's ownership of social-networking site MySpace, which was acquired in 2005 for $580m (£280m).
[November 28, 2007, 13:46]
BBC Unveils Major Online Revamp
News With an emphasis on both music and user communities, the BBC seems to be squaring up for a battle with MySpace, the popular social networking site Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.bought last year. The BBC has unveiled its Creative Future strategy and...
[April 27, 2006, 8:55]
Chuck D Lays Down The Law On DRM
News He also expressed scepticism about the purchase this year of MySpace by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, indicating that it may eventually make the portal less effective in promoting new artists. The problem with corporations is they come into any...
[September 19, 2006, 14:05]
Generation Tech
News That's why blogs and MySpace are such a huge deal, because they're not weaned on just mass media but also interactive media," he said. MySpace — your friends are on it, your parents hate it. Boyd, who has been studying how teenagers use technology...
[November 18, 2005, 16:20]
US Top 51
Downloads With Google, Yahoo, Myspace, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, EBay, Msn, AOL, Blogger, Craigslist, Amazon, Go, Photobucket, CNN, IMDB, ESPN, MS Corp, Flickr, and RapidShare. Introducing the US Top 51 searched Web sites and Google search gadget, some...
[May 31, 2008, 22:01]
Social Networking: 3G's Killer App?
News Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com, which will soon go mobile, could become key applications driving data usage on new 3G wireless networks. Like MySpace and Facebook, Rabble lets users create profiles so they can share photos, videos...
[April 12, 2006, 11:20]
Murdoch Warns Of Disruptive Effects Of Technology
News Later that month, News Corporation was given clearance to buy Intermix Media for $580m (£322m), giving it control of the MySpace social networking site. Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp, admitted that power was moving away from proprietors...
[March 14, 2006, 14:10]
Media And Technology 'won't Merge'
News Over the last six months, media giants have been increasing their foothold in the digital space: in January, Walt Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios, and last year Rupert Murdoch's News Corp acquired a number of online...
[February 10, 2006, 10:55]
Google Profits Surge
News It was the latest, and biggest, of a series of deals Google has made recently, including one in August with News Corp's MySpace. Google's third-quarter profit nearly doubled from a year ago as sales of keyword-related advertising continued to grow...
[October 20, 2006, 8:40]
Murdoch Planning Search Acquisition
News News Corp has planned to spend about $2bn (£1bn) on Internet acquisitions, including the $580m it agreed to pay to buy Intermix Media, which owns social-networking service MySpace, and $60m it is paying for sports Web site owner Scout Media...
[August 15, 2005, 17:15]
Big Companies Eat Things
Blog King Rupert (Murdoch, not Goodwins, obviously) has snaffled Photobucket, which often provides image hosting for his other online plaything, MySpace.eBay eats StumbleUpon News Corp eats Photobucket The rate at which the giants of the internet are...
[May 31, 2007, 14:38]
Sociagami
Downloads Fold your friends with the best social network browser for Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook. Sociagami allows you to manage your Myspace and Facebook and Twitter accounts from one beautiful Windows application.
[February 19, 2008, 19:16]
Messy Overlaps Everywhere!
Talkback Newscorp joins Microsoft and successfully takeover Yahoo, apparently Newscorp will bring Myspace into the fold, thereby enabling the combined partnership to provide a rounded internet experience, is that user lock-in?
[April 10, 2008, 17:32]
