Opinion: Myspace for sale? Who would want to buy Myspace?
Start saving up your cash, compadres: Myspace is officially up for grabs.
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Start saving up your cash, compadres: Myspace is officially up for grabs.
MySpace is laying off 500 employees, or about 47 percent of its global staff, as part of a restructuring by the once-leading, now struggling social-networking site.
Myspace claims to have changed directions, focusing more on becoming an entertainment hub than a washed-up Facebook imitator, but their PR platitudes have fallen on deaf ears.
MySpace has launched a new version of its site that includes a whole host of new entertainment-focused features in a bid to turn around dwindling visitor numbers, and at the same time make visitors stay longer.
MySpace announced on Monday that developers can now build MySpace applications using Silverlight, Microsoft's plug-in for developing multimedia and rich Internet applications.
Consumers will be able to exchange messages with MySpace friends on their TVs while watching shows, thanks to a social-networking application for TVs jointly launched by MySpace.com, Intel and Yahoo on Wednesday.
Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday.
Responding to the momentum around data portability, MySpace has launched its own "Data Availability" effort with big-name partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and fellow News Corp. unit Photobucket.
MySpace has long been a haven for independent and commercial musicians alike to talk with fans and to spread the word about new music. Now the Web site is starting up a new download service called "MySpace Music" with some of the biggest names in commercial music.
MySpace Wednesday will begin letting programmers pre-register for its developer platform program, which will open for business next week.
The use of social networking sites worldwide has grown substantially in the past year, with some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 per cent, according to a study released Tuesday by Internet measurement company ComScore.
News's popular MySpace.com social networking site hosted Web pages for at least 29,000 known sex offenders as of July 2007, North Carolina's Attorney General said Tuesday.
An impasse between the world's largest social network and the US's most popular photo site has ended.
Web mashups are all the rage, but sometimes they enrage, as evidenced by a spat between social networking phenom MySpace and Photobucket, which runs an eponymous photo and video sharing site.