Tag: MySpace
MySpace, in an attempt to tap into outside developers (similar to Facebook), is launching its pre-announced developer platform on Feb 5th. Programmers and other companies will be able to develop applications/widgets on top of the MySpace platform, similar to Facebook apps. For now, only the tools are launching...no date yet on when the actual launch of these apps will be. The apps will allows developers to embed advertising and make revenues, but no word yet on any revenue split with MySpace. MySpace is already working with Google-backed...
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Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe (MySpace founders) have made a very aggressive compensation proposal to owner News Corp for when their contract is up in October. They're asking Peter Chernin and Rupert Murdoch for a 2-year deal worth $50 million total. That comes out to $25 million each, or $12.5 million a year. Plus, the pair want a development fund of $15 million to invest in internet companies. Even though MySpace is probably the most integral part of News Corp's overall corporate strategy.
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, the...
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There has been some kind of rumors that MySpace website is worth 12 billon dollars.That’s a not bad return on Fox’s initial investment of $580 million in the site. Recently Yahoo and Fox updated that yahoo is interested in buying MySpace for 25% of the stock in the combined entity.
Michael Arrington said that the Flektor deal is a smaller deal, in the $10 million to $20 million range. Earlier this month, it was reported that MySpace had acquired image-sharing site Photobucket after a widget-related skirmish between the two. Neither company has formally confirmed that acquisition.
Valleywag claims that MySpace has purchased Photobucket, estimating a deal around $300 million. If true, this might give us a clue as to what really happened just a few weeks ago...
Photobucket has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation's social network. The photo sharing service, which had a quarrelsome but symbiotic relationship with Myspace, may announce the deal as early as this morning. After final negotiations at the end of last week, Photobucket has called an all-hands staff meeting for 10am PST this morning. We don't...
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I was curious to see how this would go down. A few days ago the CEO of Photobcuket posted this to their blog. I guess MySpace still has to keep their members happy for fear that they may move elsewhere 
"Following discussions with MySpace, we’re pleased to announce that all Photobucket videos and remixes are enabled once more on MySpace with immediate effect. Both our companies are committed to putting our users first.
Moving forward, we’ve established open lines of communication and procedures with MySpace to prevent a sudden...
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Mashable writes about the new MySpace news aggregator called MySpace News, launching in the second quarter of 2007:
It’ll rely on both algorithms and user rating - basically a combination of Google News and Digg. You’ll remember that Fox acquired the news aggregator NewRoo about a year ago, so it’s taken them a long time to get to the product stage. The feature list, via Terry Heaton:
- MySpace News takes News to a whole new level by dynamically aggregating real-time news and blogs from top sites around the Web
- Creates...
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david 2 years 8 months ago
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.
The $30 million lawsuit accused the site of having no measures to protect children who use it. The lawsuit also named MySpace's parent company, News Corp., and the 19-year-old, whose criminal case has not yet gone to trial.
In dismissing the suit, Judge Sparks said that as an "interactive service", MySpace was protected from materials posted on its site by the Communications...
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MySpace currently brings in $25 million a month, and is growing at a rate of 30% each quarter, according to Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch dismissed criticism that the MySpace audience was aging, giving an advantage to rivals such as college social networking site Facebook. "A lot of young people--college kids, undoubtedly--are going to Facebook. But that doesn't mean they don't stay with MySpace," he said.
Market research firm eMarketer predicted in a report last November that MySpace alone would have $525 million in ad revenue in 2007. The...
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Since the new partnership between Vodafone and myspace another announcement has been released. This time Vodafone are launching YouTube Mobile.
Vodafone customers will be able to access new videos daily as well as upload content and send recommendations to their friends. Initially the service will be launched in the UK but will be extended across Europe using the Vodafone Live! Service.
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