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Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
The Grand Ole Opry and MySpace are uniting to live stream an Opry performance with video for the first time this Saturday.
MySpace is naming a former MTV Networks ad sales executive to a top role, while promoting the founders of recently acquired site iLike to senior positions.
The social networking hub MySpace says it has named Mark Rosenbaum as its first chief financial officer.
An 18-year-old California man has been charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old Idaho girl after police say the two met on a social networking site and he got her to move in with him.
MySpace, a unit of News Corp., has retained consulting firm Media Link and with it online ad maven Wenda Harris Millard to vamp up its advertising business.
Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns.
Social-networking site MySpace said Tuesday it plans to cut 300 jobs, or two-thirds of its overseas work force, in an effort to rein in costs and focus on countries where it has many users and better business opportunities.
MySpace said Tuesday it is cutting nearly 30 percent of its work force in a bid to become more efficient, bringing its staffing level more in line with its more popular rival, Facebook.
A federal appeals court must decide whether a Pennsylvania middle school can suspend a student who, at home on her own time, created a lewd MySpace page aimed at her principal.
A man who confessed to robbing a South Carolina bank in a message posted on MySpace has pleaded guilty. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that 27-year-old Joseph Northington of Roanoke, Va., will be sentenced later for using a firearm during a crime of violence.
The new leaders of News Corp.'s MySpace said Wednesday they need to innovate to rejuvenate the social networking site, which has suffered from stalled user growth.
News Corp. has hired two new executives at MySpace, expanding the online hangout's management team after having just replaced its CEO on Friday.
With MySpace falling behind Facebook as the world's largest online social network, MySpace tapped a former Facebook executive Friday as its new chief executive.
MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe will step down soon as the social networking site's chief executive, amid the site's stalled user growth and the rapid rise of rival Facebook.
MySpace is working with Citysearch to let people review businesses like bars and restaurants. It's part of MySpace's plan to evolve beyond its status as a social hub for music and celebrity fans.
A heavy-metal band has turned to an online audience to fight the parole of the man who killed one of its guitarists in 1988, the latest use of Internet petitions to attempt to influence parole boards.
About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
A scorned 21-year-old told her ex-boyfriend that he couldn't prove she was the one who vandalized his apartment on three occasions — but then, police said, she posted a picture of the damage on MySpace. The woman was charged with two felonies for the vandalism.
Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail from a busybody named "Dr. Meg." The e-mail was sent by Dr. Megan Moreno, lead researcher of a study of lower-income kids that she says shows how parents and other adults can encourage safer Internet use.
Zach Braff, Kim Kardashian and Selena Gomez have more in common than their celebrity status: According to MySpace, they're among the stars with the most friends on the social network.
MySpace.com is teaming up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a campaign to extend MySpace's reach and counter the expansion of their common rival Facebook Inc.
The tragic, landmark court case of a Missouri teen who committed suicide after allegedly being “cyberbullied” in a classmate’s ruse ended in a conviction — but it was little more than cold comfort to a still-grieving mother.
An 18-year-old Hayden, Idaho, man was accused of stabbing his mother after she forbade him to use the Internet social networking site MySpace. The man was arrested last week for investigation of aggravated assault after his mother said he cut her wrist.
Instead of trying to take down all copyright-protected videos that its members post, MySpace will let certain clips stay — and give the creators of the original content a cut of the revenue from advertising that will be attached to the snippets.
MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeemMySpace is in late stage negotiations to acquire music streaming service iMeem, we've confirmed from multiple sources. MySpace is on a bit of an acquisition spree – they acquired iLike, another music service, three months ago.
MySpace versus Facebook, or, ghetto vs. "white flight"Are there online ghettoes?
Google launches music search with Lala and iLike | Technology | Internet | ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday partnered with Web services Lala and MySpace's iLike to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet, expanding its music industry footprint. The global Web search leader will provide users who want t …
Google Launches Music-Specific Search Result Pages (GOOG)Google (GOOG) and various online music websites announced a partnership yesterday to provide a better search experience for users looking up music related information.
MSN May Get MySpace Music Service to Rival Google'sMicrosoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Google Music Service: The ScreenshotsNone of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have "no comments" or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed.
Google, MySpace, Facebook make music movesInternet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.
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MySpace Music Launches Down Under: Now Live In Australia And New ZealandWhen it comes to free media streaming, the United States is flush with premium content from great sites like Hulu and MySpace Music. But aside from a handful of exceptions, the rest of the world is out of luck.
MySpace connection ends in robberyInvestigators say an online chat led to a robbery in Boynton Beach.
How the Social Web Snared Yale Murder Suspect Raymond ClarkLong before police arrested Raymond Clark, the 24-year-old lab tech suspected of murdering Yale pharmacology grad student Annie Le days before her wedding, the media had already built what sounded like a compelling case against him.
Has MySpace given up on Europe?Not content with gutting his international offices (just as they'd started throwing some awesome parties), it seems handsome-but-brutal new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta can't even be bothered with internationalising the site any more.
MySpace Hooks Up With Twitter, Offers Two-Way SyncRealizing that it's better to swim with the stream than against it, MySpace has just turned on two-way sync with Twitter.
Teens brag on Myspace about fleeing 'crackers,' stealing watchesA 15-year-old boy was busted after bragging on his Myspace page about stealing watches from Sears. He even posted a photo of him and a sidekick modeling the stolen watches.
Auto-Played Out: MySpace Music Streaming Drops 20%In mid-August, MySpace switched off the "auto-play" feature on its musicians' embedded audio players. The move was supposed to save MySpace money; every time one of those songs queued up, the company had to shell out royalty fees--as much as $10 million a month.
MySpaceID Comes To The Windows Live FamilyMySpaceID, the social network's login platform that's comparable to Facebook Connect, is coming to Windows Live and its sister properties, including Windows Live's main portal, Windows Live Messenger, and Hotmail.
Video Shows Deputy Using Taser Gun For Fun A Volusia County deputy is the subject of an internal investigation after WESH 2 News showed a video to the sheriff that allegedly shows a deputy using his Taser gun on a friend for fun.
Cops: Troubled Teacher Daniel Rothbard Posed As Teen To Lure Girls To HomeA teacher on Long Island - arrested in the past for the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl - has landed a spot in jail again. This time, on new charges of sexual misconduct involving two more underage girls, Nassau County police said.
Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking WebsitesNLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.
White House Seeks to Capture and Archive Citizens' Comments on its Facebook, YouTube, MySpace SitesAnyone who posts comments on the White House's Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out.
The Facebook ExodusThings fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you'll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her.
Be Careful What You Post On Facebook More employers than ever are researching job candidates on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter in order to find out more about their activities and character.
How to Manage Your Online Life When You're DeadInteresting point to ponder. What happens with your e-mails, facebook walll, etc. after your death?
Are you a Twitter? You know - the site that allows you answer that life pressing question, "What are you doing?" to your friends, family and colleagues.
MySpace Disables Auto-Play Of Profile Songs To Get Streaming Costs Under ControlMySpace Music, which launched a little less than a year ago, is the one bright spot of growth in an otherwise flatlining MySpace.
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