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On Monday we highlighted the executive team that News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) chief digital officer Jon Miller has built. We've got one more important name to add: Mark Rosenbaum, who has been named the first chief financial officer for MySpace.Rosenbaum most recently was a consultant to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and previously...
Posted on October 6, 2009 11:21 AM
Marc Andreessen, the serial entrepreneur whose new VC fund was featured on our sister blog Dealscape, said a few words on the corporate strategy of social networking sites Facebook Inc. and MySpace and microblogging site Twitter.Andreessen (pictured), who founded Netscape Communications Corp., is on Facebook's board and has invested...
Posted on July 6, 2009 4:45 PM
For the first time, Facebook Inc. passed MySpace in terms of U.S. visitors for a month. ComScore Inc. said Facebook's users almost doubled from a year earlier, while MySpace lost 5%. It's a figure News Corp.'s (NYSE:NWS) chief digital officer Jonathan Miller must be very familiar with. However, he's no...
Posted on June 16, 2009 5:25 PM
News Corp.'s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace isn't the only social networking site hiring top managers. VentureBeat is reporting that its rival Facebook Inc. has hired Priti Choksi (pictured), a former Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) manager, to lead business development. At Google, Choksi most recently led distribution partnerships and previously was manager of strategic...
Posted on April 27, 2009 9:53 AM
Owen Van Natta (pictured) will be taking over as chief executive of News Corp.'s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace. Van Natta, who is the former chief revenue officer and vice president of operations for Facebook Inc., takes over for departing MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe. As we reported Thursday, News Corp. chief digital officer...
Posted on April 24, 2009 3:21 PM
News Corporation's (NYSE:NWS) Jonathan Miller (pictured) wasted little time putting his strategic stamp on MySpace. One month after being named chief digital officer, Miller is replacing MySpace founder and chief executive Chris DeWolfe and reassigning president Tom Anderson. DeWolfe will remain on the board of MySpace China and a strategic...
Posted on April 23, 2009 10:30 AM
Time Warner's AOL unit is playing catch-up in social media, using acquisitions to chase Facebook Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace. According to reports on Cnet and Boomtown, it's making progress. In March of 2008 it bought social networking site Bebo, paying (some said overpaying) $850 million. Based in San Francisco,...
Posted on February 23, 2009 12:50 PM
MySpace Inc., a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is trying to joint venture its way past Facebook Inc. in the race to provide millions of users with a universal Web identity. By partnering with Google Inc., MySpace wants to create a more social Web, enabling its users to...
Posted on December 9, 2008 4:33 PM
The basic idea is profit from piracy. Users of online social networks, such as MySpace, like to jazz up their profiles with the latest songs and videos, often with illegally downloaded music and video clips from places such as MTV. Rather than fight about it, MySpace and Viacom Inc.'s...
Posted on November 3, 2008 9:49 AM
On our sister blog, Tech Confidential, The Deal's Paul Bonanos gives the lowdown on MySpace Music, an ambitious joint venture that could change the competitive landscape of the music industry. The site features audio and video content, e-commerce offerings, and user and artist playlists.The joint venture is between News Corp.'s...
Posted on September 25, 2008 11:04 AM
He's not known as someone who gives up without a fight, so when Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer raised the offer for Yahoo! Inc. from $44.6 billion to $47.5 billion then walked away from deal talks, many initially thought it was a negotiating tactic. But Silicon Alley Insider makes...
Posted on May 6, 2008 2:58 PM
News Corp.'s MySpace, the social networking site Rupert Murdoch shrewdly bought before the phenomenon got really huge, has a new partner for election news. It's not corporate sibling Fox News but NBC News and MSNBC.com, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Well, fair enough. The best practice at diversified companies (like...
Posted on April 22, 2008 4:04 PM
The merger scuffle between Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. got even more interesting Thursday, as reports surfaced that Microsoft and News Corp. may jointly bid for the search engine.Yahoo! has already rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid, saying the offering price isn't enough. In February, reports surfaced that Yahoo! would...
Posted on April 10, 2008 10:16 AM
Ethan Beard, Google Inc.'s director of social media, will take a post as director of business development at Facebook Inc. Beard leaves the Internet search giant as No. 2 social networking firm Facebook moves to generate more advertising revenue. Facebook is growing faster than larger rival MySpace and the number...
Posted on March 26, 2008 3:18 PM
Last week, the rumor mill was churning out reports that Yahoo! Inc. would defend against the Microsoft Corp. bid by selling a minority stake to News Corp., which would spin out Web properties into Yahoo!. That deal would also contain an equity investment from Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace....
Posted on February 20, 2008 5:36 PM
The notion of Yahoo! fending off Microsoft via a deal with News Corp.--wherein the latter would spin out web properties including MySpace and fold them...
Posted on February 14, 2008 9:20 AM
To prosper on the web, content companies need a strategy for building up the leverage they can wield against distributors.
Posted on October 15, 2007 8:46 AM
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