MySpace agenda

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]

Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?

Comment Musician Billy Bragg, who has already fought a campaign against MySpace on the pages of UK newspapers, recently wrote in The New York Times bemoaning the financial return for artists from user-generated sites. [22 May 2008]

BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News Milanesi said: "[RIM is] underlining that they don't only want to target the email crowd but are now pushing [web browsing] and other services like MySpace integration. Exclusive Special Report: CIO... [13 May 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 Setters 2007 -... [13 Nov 2007]

Chinwag Live: The Dark Side Of Social Media

White Paper Identity theft, libel, stalking, scams and even violence were on the agenda at this event held19th June 2007, but so too was an exploration of online identity management and the changing nature of privacy fostered by... [31 Oct 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 Setters poll of the top... [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]

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