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Zimmerman's Old MySpace Page Houses Racist Comments

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:47:27 CDT

George Zimmerman now has a legal site , a defense-minded Twitter feed , and a 7-year-old MySpace page that's causing some fresh trouble. The Miami Herald unearthed the page, which has been confirmed as authentic by his lawyer, and reports on the less seemly details contained within. Most notably: not-so-nice comments about...

Women More Likely to Unfriend

Tim Karan — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:23:42 CST

Women are the less fair sex when it comes to social networking. Ladies are a little more likely to delete friends on sites like Facebook and Twitter than gentlemen are, and a lot more likely to keep their pages private, reports AFP . A Pew Research Center study found that 67%...

MySpace Delays Relaunch Party

Rob Quinn — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:00:05 CDT

MySpace's new owners scrapped plans for a summer relaunch party because the revamp of the social-networking site is going more slowly than expected, insiders tells the Wall Street Journal . Justin Timberlake and Specific Media, who bought the site for $35 million in June, now plan to unveil the new, music-focused...

MySpace Creator: We Had Video Chat Years Ago

John Johnson — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:00:24 CDT

News that Facebook is teaming up with Skype must have sounded like deja vu to MySpace founder Tom Anderson. In a Google+ post , he notes that MySpace partnered with Skype in 2007 and had video chats three years before that, reports PC Magazine . But Anderson isn't joining the critics knocking...

Justin Timberlake, Ad Group Buy MySpace for $35M

Rob Quinn — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:00:00 CDT

The hottest website of 2006 now belongs in part to one of that year's hottest stars. Justin Timberlake has teamed up with digital advertising agency Specific Media to take MySpace off the hands of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, reports the Telegraph . Insiders say the fallen giant of social networks, which...

MySpace Likely to Be Sold This Week

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:42:06 CDT

News Corp. is hoping to part with struggling social network site MySpace this week, and will likely lay off more than half of the remaining staff of 500, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company is looking to cut a deal tomorrow or Thursday in order to...

Even MySpace Founders No Longer Using Site

Rob Quinn — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:17:30 CDT

MySpace has fallen so far that its own founders no longer bother updating their profiles, BusinessWeek finds in a detailed look at the rapid decline of the former juggernaut of social networking. Former CEO Chris DeWolfe, who founded the company with Tom Anderson in 2003, says he cringes on the...

Teens Can't Be Suspended for MySpace Parodies

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:36:19 CDT

Two Pennsylvania teens cannot be disciplined at school for MySpace parodies of their principals created on home computers, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday in a high-profile case involving students and free speech. The postings, however lewd or offensive, were not likely to cause significant disruptions at school and are...

News Corp Trying to Sell Off MySpace

Kevin Spak — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:00:03 CDT

Remember when News Corp shelled out more than a half-billion dollars to buy MySpace? Well, now it’s trying to dump the once-popular social networking site, and it’s starting the bidding at more than $100 million, a source tells Reuters . The company expects to have five or more bids by the...