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RSS myspace in newsTime 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]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News One of the things that MySpace has that is interesting is that you can install applications both on your profile page and on your user page. MySpace has both those pages. Marks, a veteran of blog search start-up Technorati, now works on the search... [03 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, enjoying a 53 per cent increase in users to 4.1... [22 Feb 2008]
BBC signs up with iTunes
News In recent months, the BBC has struck deals with YouTube and MySpace, as well as with ITV and Channel 4 for the Kangaroo on-demand service. A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store. [19 Feb 2008]
Vodafone CEO warns of Apple, Google threat
News In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, Sarin said: "We must as an industry learn to both partner and compete with these new players because our customers want to experience entertainment such as music... [12 Feb 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]
BBC beds down with MySpaceTV
News BBC Worldwide has clubbed together with MySpace to bring new and archived content to the social networking site's new video platform, MySpace TV. Selected BBC content will be available to subscribers to the BBC Worldwide channel on MySpaceTV for... [24 Jan 2008]
Social networking "white elephant" warning
News Issues that businesses need to consider before investing developing internal social networking tools include protecting personal intellectual property and people's preference for using existing non-professional external networks such as Bebo... [13 Dec 2007]
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. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25... [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. The majority of people looking to work for web 2.0 start-up... [13 Nov 2007]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News As image spam shifts from email attachments to images on free image-hosting sites, [we] believe that it is only a matter of time before the spammers apply the same approach to audio spam and upload the message to free multimedia-hosting sites... [30 Oct 2007]
Microsoft cuts itself a slice of Facebook pie
News When asked what had happened with Google, widely rumoured to be another major bidder in the Facebook stake competition - and which serves the ads for Facebook's chief rival MySpace - Van Natta answered that it was because the partnership with... [25 Oct 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]
Mugshots to appear on LinkedIn
News The business-oriented social network has previously eschewed photo functionality in an effort to preserve the professional tone of its offering - setting itself apart from the likes of Facebook and MySpace. [28 Sep 2007]
Cyber bullying crackdown kicks off
News An online campaign will also feature on websites - including social networking sites - used by schoolchildren, such as Bebo, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! The government has launched a campaign to help schools tackle cyber bullying. [21 Sep 2007]
