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Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile The digital question is also hanging over Murdoch in the form of the future of its 2005 acquisition, MySpace. Like many web fads before it, MySpace has seen its growth slow over the years as they move on... [30 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile And in September internet search data company Hitwise noted that Twitter has overtaken MySpace in the UK and is catching up with Bebo in the popularity stakes, ranking as the fourth most popular social networking site or... [29 Sep 2009]
Dan Nye
AS Profile Since taking the helm in 2007, Dan Nye has led LinkedIn to stellar growth in the crowded web 2.0 social networking space against rivals such as Plaxo and the more consumer-focused Facebook and MySpace. [07 Oct 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for... [26 Mar 2008]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News In contrast MySpace has seen a nine per cent fall in the number of unique visitors year on year with around five million users. And Bebo is now hot on the heels of MySpace for second spot in the UK,... [22 Feb 2008]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Media mogul and head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch was placed at number two, in part due to his company's ownership of social-networking site MySpace, which was acquired in 2005 for $580m. Find out who made it into... [29 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News Callaghan said this is now changing following major acquisitions of web 2.0 start-ups such as Google buying YouTube in 2006 and MySpace being acquired by News International in 2005. Agenda... [13 Nov 2007]
Social networking goes mainstream
AS Analysis Rupert Murdoch was also given credit for his decision to put big bucks into social networking by buying MySpace. If a MySpace screen comes up at work it is embarrassing. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg's... [12 Oct 2007]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile Membership of the site has been growing apace ever since, and while it still trails rival MySpace, there is talk - in the UK at least - of Facebook catching up soon. While Zuckerberg cannot claim to be the pioneer of... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: 'Changing of the guard' for the 2006 Agenda Setters
Leader Murdoch won praise for 'getting' the internet and having the foresight to embrace social networking with the purchase of MySpace. The winner of silicon.com's seventh annual Agenda... [25 Sep 2006]
Leader: 'Changing of the guard' for the 2006 Agenda Setters
AS Analysis Murdoch won praise for 'getting' the internet and having the foresight to embrace social networking with the purchase of MySpace. It's a changing of the guard with Microsoft's Craig Mundie in at number 24 but neither... [25 Sep 2006]
The Murdoch factor
AS Analysis Whip out his chequebook, and $580m later he was the proud owner of MySpace. But Murdoch's MySpace purchase signals his intention to make up lost revenues elsewhere and go toe-to-toe with any young... [25 Sep 2006]
Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile The Aussie media magnate wins acclaim this year for buying social networking website MySpace, signalling a further concerted effort to make up for lost time in the online world, after several years which saw News Corp... [25 Sep 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Rupert Murdoch
News For all the talk about social networking and user-generated content, it's yet to become clear which business models will thrive in the web 2.0 era - and within that uncertainty remain questions about Murdoch's plans for... [08 Sep 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. The silicon.com... [04 Jan 2006]
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