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No buying sprees ahead for social networks?
News Consolidation will be part and parcel of still maturing social networking, but content partnerships and alliances may be way forward, say industry watchers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Personal applications, MySpace, Site, International Data Corp., digital content, social networking, monetization
MySpace CEO: We need to innovate faster
News Former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta says MySpace is home to a lot of self-expression but hasn't been moving fast enough, prompting people to go elsewhere.
Tags: Socialite, Web 2.0, MySpace, Google Inc., America Online Inc., News Corp., Advertisement, Facebook, CEO, job
Facebook makes gains in US
News Visits to the social-networking site more than doubled from February 2008 to February 2009, with growth coming in all age groups except for the 18-to-24 set.
Tags: Web 2.0, MySpace, Facebook, Hitwise, U.S., Web Site, Web, Web 2.0, February
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
Facebook and MySpace 'in talks'? Of course
News Good move for both companies as MySpace tries to move away from its image as a social network that lost to Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, MySpace, CEO, U.K., network, Web 2.0, Video, News Corp.
MySpace ad exec Jeff Berman is out
News Along with Berman's departure, media strategy firm Media Link has been brought on board to help fix the News Corp.-owned social network's ad offerings.
Tags: Web 2.0, MySpace, Video, News Corp., Facebook, CEO, exec, blog, Web 2.0
MySpace names its first chief financial officer
News The News Corp. social network hires Mark Rosenbaum as CFO less than a week after it announced a new chief technology officer.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, MySpace, Web 2.0, CFO, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, News Corp., layoff, chief technology officer, co-founder
Hitwise: Facebook's 'Connect' pushed it past MySpace
News The traffic firm noticed a clear uptick in U.S. Facebook growth after the site launched Facebook Connect in full, and that's when it passed MySpace in traffic.
Tags: Web 2.0, MySpace, CNN, social networking, Facebook, marketing, Hitwise, Web Site, Web, Web 2.0
It's official: MySpace to acquire iLike
News CEO Owen Van Natta said in a conference call that the News Corp.-owned social network has agreed to purchase the social music site, following rumors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Acquisitions, MySpace, News Corp., entertainment, social networking, Seattle, Facebook, network, tax
Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games
News In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social online games properties and pit himself against industry leader Mark Pincus of Zynga.
Tags: Games, Facebook, MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, Online Game, News Corp., entertainment, TechCrunch, private equity
Facebook Connect branches out
News Aiming to make its universal-log-in product more ubiquitous, company announces a three-step integration wizard and a translation tool to automatically convert a site to a Facebook user's native language.
Tags: Web 2.0, entrepreneur, network, U.S., Hitwise, social Web, crowdsourcing, Connect Wizard, Social Networking, MySpace
Microsoft fixing Bing bug that aided spammers
News Company works to fix a bug, discovered earlier this week by Webroot researchers, that let spammers piggyback onto Bing redirects and get through spam filters.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Search, MySpace, RSS, Security, Web Page, Microsoft Corp., Spam, Spammer
A new set of rules for social games
News Playfish's US$300 million sale to Electronic Arts seems to spell good news for other makers of social-network games, but this is a fast-growing and messy niche filled with one plot twist after another.
Tags: Games, Gamer, Facebook, Offer, MySpace, Playfish, Zynga, Playdom, cell phone, advertisement
IM is coming to your MySpace profile
News The social network has had a downloadable instant messaging client for a while, but this is the first time members can IM one another directly from their MySpace profiles.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, MySpace, Web Browser, News Corp., IM client, Facebook, IM, toolbar, U.S.
Ex-Facebook executive as MySpace CEO, 'effective immediately'
News Former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta takes over from outgoing CEO Chris DeWolfe. John Sykes will take over his old role at Project Playlist.
Tags: Web 2.0, MySpace, Van Natta, News Corp., entertainment, Amazon.com Inc., Facebook, CEO, Hollywood, revenue
