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Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men in the media - when the News Corp butterfly flaps its wings, a tornado bursts over the media landscape somewhere. As head of News... [30 Sep 2009]
MySpace confirms purchase of Facebook-friend iLike
News MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta has confirmed in a conference call on Wednesday that the News Corp-owned social network has "entered into an agreement to acquire iLike".iLike's co-founders will remain at the... [20 Aug 2009]
Skype unveils iPhone and BlackBerry services
News CCS Insight analyst Ben Wood said the new applications give Skype a chance to boost its mobile phone position, which has been weaker than that of social sites such as Facebook, Twitter or News... [30 Mar 2009]
Social networking: Global phenomenon
News News Corp's MySpace, still the biggest social network in the US, is not doing quite as well internationally. The latest statistics from ComScore show social networking sites such as... [13 Aug 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News MySpace, owned by News Corp since 2005, nevertheless remains far ahead of Facebook in the US, where both companies are based. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May,... [24 Jun 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... [26 Mar 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News... [13 Mar 2008]
MySpace and Skype to get chatty
News MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the eBay-owned telephony client providing voice chat services for the News Corp-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. [17 Oct 2007]
Should you ban social networking sites at work?
News The rise and rise of social networking websites such as News Corp's MySpace has put the spotlight on how businesses respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. And a further 24 per cent... [14 Jun 2007]
Facebook opens the door to outsiders
News According to comScore, MySpace - which News Corp acquired in 2005 for $500m - saw 66 million monthly visitors in April compared with Facebook's 23 million. Social networking site... [25 May 2007]
Microsoft inks Facebook ad deal
News When it comes to cutting exclusive deals with social-networking sites, one of the web's fastest growing sectors, the first round goes to Google, which agreed to pay MySpace's parent company, News Corp,... [23 Aug 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News Rick Lane, vice president for government affairs at MySpace owner News Corp, said: "We have been working collaboratively on security and safety issues with an array of government agencies, law... [11 May 2006]
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