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Leader or MySpace? 'Whatever happened to the British Google, Yahoo! This is the latest cry from the Conservative Party. Shadow chancellor George Osborne has been on a fact-finding tour to Silicon Valley to figure out where... [13 Jun 2006]
'Social networks are the web's future'
News Social networks such as MySpace.com are already challenging traditional portals. MySpace, for example, has surpassed AOL and MSN by measure of monthly page views, Rashtchy said, and its traffic equals... [13 Jun 2006]
Mobile IM held back by 'traditional' operators
News More competition to own-brand clients could come from social networking operations such as MySpace, which recently soft-launched its IM client and earlier this year went mobile in partnership with new US phone brand Helio. [25 May 2006]
10,000 silver surfers flood onto the web
News She added: "Comparing the top 10 sites visited by silver surfers with those visited by the 18 to 24 age group, there was only one difference - MySpace, the popular social networking site. This week 10,000 older people... [25 May 2006]
Google and Microsoft cuddling up to MySpace
News Social networking giant MySpace - beloved of teens and bands peddling their tunes - is cosying up to the old school of internet players. According to the Financial Times, MySpace is in talks with both... [23 May 2006]
Google retains its search crown
News For the first time, the search engine operated by the social networking site MySpace.com appeared in the rankings. Google's share of the US web search market continues to edge beyond Yahoo! and Microsoft, according to... [23 May 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News MySpace.com has recently found itself pummelled by critical media reports describing how teens are divulging personal information without much thought to the consequences. But now the online social-networking phenomenon... [11 May 2006]
Skype makes a social networking scene
News Alistair Shrimpton, UK manager for Skype, said he expected users of sites such as LiveJournal and MySpace to "embrace this SkypeCast technology as an extra layer of discussion and communication". VoIP giant Skype is... [03 May 2006]
BBC online revamp embraces mobiles, podcasts and user content
News The BBC has unveiled its Creative Future strategy and its plans for a revamp of its online arm which could see it taking on the likes of MySpace. With an emphasis on both music and user communities, the Beeb seems to be... [26 Apr 2006]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News Rupert Murdoch's News Corp last year earmarked $1.5bn for acquisitions in this field and recently bought teenage internet hotspot MySpace.com, an online music and dating community with about 60 million members. [04 Apr 2006]
Murdoch: Newspapers must learn to love the iPod
News The company headed by the billionaire, News Corp, has its eye on internet acquisitions and bought social networking site MySpace.com, while Sky has been one of the first UK broadcasters to embrace on-demand film... [14 Mar 2006]
News Corp names new internet investments head
News It's already spent about half of that on businesses such as the owner of entertainment website MySpace.com, sports site owner Scout Media and online gaming company IGN Entertainment. News Corp has named a new head for... [04 Jan 2006]
Apple's iTunes pips Google's growth
News Social-networking sites MySpace, Facebook and Memegen.net also saw impressive year-over-year growth, increasing 752 per cent, 530 per cent and 446 per cent, respectively, according to the Nielsen/NetRatings' report. [21 Dec 2005]
Murdoch casts his net over online search
News News Corp has planned to spend about $2bn on internet acquisitions, including the $580m it agreed to pay to buy Intermix Media, which owns MySpace.com, and $60m it is paying for sports website owner Scout Media,... [15 Aug 2005]
US man arrested for spim
News According to US reports the recipients of the messages were all members of the MySpace.com online networking service. In a further twist upon the scam, Greco had allegedly threatened to share his methods for spamming... [21 Feb 2005]
