Tag: Brad Greenspan
Brad Greenspan filed a lawsuit today in Federal District Court in Los Angeles thru his LiveUniverse company, accusing News Corp's MySpace of ramping up the practice of censoring MySpace users from using or even mentioning the name on their profile pages of products or websites that News Corp deems to be competitive or a source of information adverse to News Corp. The lawsuit makes use of the law in the United States to protect companies and consumers from the attempts by MySpace to illegally create a monopoly and extend its dominance of the...
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MySpace founder Brad Greenspan acquired majority stake in video search Web site Flurl.com, the company said Thursday. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Greenspan made the investment through LiveUniverse, a company he formed to focus on video, entertainment and social networking sites.
The move will allow LiveUniverse to begin discussions with financial institutions and content partners focused in the online video space, the company said.
Flurl.com said it indexes images, audio and flash content on Internet sites by relying on...
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Brad Greenspan, one of the original founders of the MySpace universe, published a report that claims that News Corp.'s 2005 acquisition of MySpace may have defrauded shareholders by "more than $20 billion." Greenspan has requested further investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.
How was News Corp able to capture turn $327 million into $20 billion or more of value within a year? The Myspace/Intermix transaction was so low compared to other internet...
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Here you have part of the critical and exhaustive investigation about the MySpace untold history by Trent Lapinski.
Most users believe that MySpace started as some kind of fluke--a happy accident that began in Anderson's bedroom or garage--and many still don't wonder, know, or care about the site's real business history and model. Heralded as a haven of DIY self-expression, MySpace was actually created by executives whose backgrounds are anchored in spam and mass marketing, and who are tied to investment scandals. With his almost...
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