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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 Facebook are growing rapidly across the globe, even as that growth... [13 Aug 2008]
MySpace gets on board OpenID
News News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again. The move comes after the network decided in May to let its... [23 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! chatting up old flames?
News and then just its search business - is talking about alternative deals with Time Warner, which owns AOL, and News Corp, parent of MySpace, a source close to Microsoft said, but any negotiations remain in preliminary stages.silicon.com Classics [03 Jul 2008]
A Real-Time Japanese Broadcast News Closed-Captioning System
White Paper This paper describes a collaboration between Bell Labs and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp. STRL to develop a real-time large vocabulary speech recognition system for live closed-captioning of NHK news programs. [03 Jul 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, the battle of the social-networking sites may have gained a new... [24 Jun 2008]
Developers snub Vista for XP
News The survey, released by US research firm Evans Data Corp, found only eight per cent of the 390 developers who responded are currently writing applications for Vista, while more than half have continued to target XP. [19 May 2008]
Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?
News He indicated that joining with Microsoft is probably the only way News Corp would be involved. In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo! [22 Apr 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 developer applications on... [26 Mar 2008]
Microsoft and Yahoo! in 'informal' merger talks
News s possible white knights, News Corp, indicated it had no interest in entering into a bidding war with Microsoft. CNET News.com's Ina Fried contributed to this report. Microsoft and Yahoo! are holding informal merger discussions, marking a shift... [14 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 Corp.s MySpace.com. [13 Mar 2008]
Time Warner talks to thwart Microsoft bid?
News and News Corp continue to talk as well, discussing a deal under which News Corp would sell MySpace to Yahoo! Yahoo! and Time Warner have held talks on a deal designed to thwart Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! [05 Mar 2008]
Yahoo! bides its time with Microsoft bid
News Meanwhile, on Saturday a TechCrunch blogger cited rumours that News Corp.which had considered merging its MySpace social-networking site with Yahoo! Yahoo! has said its response to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn takeover bid will not be immediate. [04 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment Media within the enterprise has come of age after a series of landmark multi-billion dollar acquisitions including Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn, eBay acquiring Skype for $2.6bn and News Corp's $580m purchase of MySpace. [29 Nov 2007]
Online Wall Street Journal goes sub free
News Rupert Murdoch plans to give away the digital version of The Wall Street Journal for free, making News Corp the latest company to steer away from paid subscriptions. Greg Sandoval writes for CNET News.com [14 Nov 2007]
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]
