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  • March 2008

    • OMG! Parents Friend Kids on Facebook

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Mar 9, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      OMG! Parents Friend Kids on Facebook

      What to do when their father starts talking about “getting poked" is a question many high school and college kids are asking themselves these days. It's a modern-day dilemma: Do teens allow their folks into their friends network on Facebook and grant them access to blogs, photos, and messages? Parents are increasingly seeking oversight and entrée into their children’s digital world, the Washington Post reports—and many kids aren’t all right with that. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • online privacy  • high school  • parents  • college student  • Internet freedom

    • Lisa Marie: I'm Not Fat, I'm Pregnant

      newser  |  OK!  |  Mar 8, 08 5:47 AM CST

      Lisa Marie: I'm Not Fat, I'm Pregnant

      Lisa Marie Presley is expecting her third child, OK! Magazine reports. Elvis' daughter said she was forced to make the announcement by the media's mockery of her expanding figure. "I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant," she wrote on her MySpace page. More »

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      celebrity  • MySpace  • pregnancy  • celebrity pregnancy  • tabloids  • Elvis Presley

    • Web 2.0 Firms Taking Slower Route to IPOs

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Mar 6, 08 1:19 PM CST

      Web 2.0 Firms Taking Slower Route to IPOs

      Growing Web 2.0 companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slide are biding their time before going public, making sure to run up their value as much as possible to fetch top dollar with an IPO, reports Business Week . It’s a far different approach than companies took before the dot-com bubble burst, when the fast track to an IPO was the goal. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • YouTube  • social networking  • MySpace  • News Corp  • IPO  • venture capital  • PayPal  • LinkedIn  • NetSuite  • VMWare  • Slide

    • Euro Websites Rock Recording Industry

      newser  |  Wired  |  Mar 3, 08 12:52 PM CST

      Euro Websites Rock Recording Industry

      While the recording industry continues to lose profits, two online companies are reinventing the recorded music business model—and raking in the cash. Europe's SellaBand and Slicethepie are getting fans to finance their favorite indie rock up-and-comers. Amazon UK wants in, but online gambling legislation in the US makes it harder to apply the paradigm here, Wired reports. More »

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      music  • MySpace  • music industry  • online music  • indie rock  • recording industry

  • February 2008

    • The Cool Kids Take Hip-Hop Back to the '80s

      newser  |  Chicago Magazine  |  Feb 27, 08 3:54 PM CST

      The Cool Kids Take Hip-Hop Back to the '80s

      Hip-hop sensation the Cool Kids might come off as too, ahem, cool for school, catapulting from an online hit to Pitchfork Music Festival performer and MIA's fall tour opener—without ever releasing an album. But Chicago Magazine paints Antoine Reed, 20, and Evan Ingersoll, 23, as two inexperienced Chicagolanders whose winning formula relies on staying simple and accessible. More »

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      music  • Chicago  • MySpace  • hip-hop  • album release  • Beastie Boys  • The Cool Kids  • LL Cool J

    • MySpace Makes Music Overtures

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 20, 08 2:54 PM CST

      MySpace Makes Music Overtures

      MySpace has spent the past few weeks approaching major record labels, trying to hammer out a deal for a new online music service, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal—tentatively MySpace Music—would likely let users stream unlimited music for free, and buy downloads that could be played on mp3 players, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

    • Microsoft Talks Tough; Proxy Battle Likely

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 20, 08 9:53 AM CST

      Microsoft Talks Tough; Proxy Battle Likely

      Microsoft, at loggerheads with Yahoo over its $41.6-billion offer for the popular web portal, is talking tough, threatening a proxy battle to unseat Yahoo’s reticent board of directors, reports the Wall Street Journal . But even a win, which experts say would be relatively cheap to achieve, could cost Microsoft in the form of Yahoo employee animosity and attrition. More »

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      Microsoft  • Yahoo  • MySpace  • News Corp  • acquisitions  • Bill Gates  • Jerry Yang  • AT&T  • proxy battle

    • News Corp. Talks Deal With Yahoo

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 13, 08 2:36 PM CST

      News Corp. Talks Deal With Yahoo

      News Corp. and Yahoo are in talks over combining MySpace and other News Corp. entities with Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports today. The deal, which could fend off Microsoft's $44.6 billion hostile takeover bid, would allow Yahoo to remain independent while giving the Murdoch-run company a stake of roughly 20%. An acquisition by Microsoft still seems the most likely outcome, but Yahoo is scrambling for other options. More »

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      Microsoft  • Yahoo  • Rupert Murdoch  • MySpace  • News Corp  • mergers and acquisitions

    • MySpace Opens Doors to Developers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 5, 08 9:58 AM CST

      MySpace Opens Doors to Developers

      MySpace members already customize personal profile pages, but they’ll soon be able to add applications like photo albums, email, and calendars. The News Corp. property plans to open its platform and release developer tools, reports the New York Times. Third-party developers will be allowed to create and make money from programs that can sit on personal home pages. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace

    • No Yahoo! for News Corp., Says Murdoch

      newser  |  CNN  |  Feb 5, 08 5:05 AM CST

      No Yahoo! for News Corp., Says Murdoch

      News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch won't be following Microsoft's lead to place a bid for  ailing Internet giant Yahoo, CNNMoney reports. Murdoch also dispelled rumors today that his company was interested in purchasing AOL, or in making any other major acquisitions. His remarks follow on the heels of Microsoft's unsolicited $45 billion bid to buy the tail-dragging Google-competitor. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • Yahoo  • Rupert Murdoch  • MySpace  • News Corp  • Fox News

    • Prez Hopefuls Get Their MTV

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 2, 08 9:15 AM CST

      Prez Hopefuls Get Their MTV

      Voters hoping to get a question in to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul before Super Tuesday will get their chance tonight when the candidates appear via satellite on an MTV/Myspace forum. John McCain and Mitt Romney were also invited to the event, the fourth in the "Dialogues" series and the first with multiple candidates. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • Mike Huckabee  • MySpace  • Ron Paul  • MTV  • young voters

  • January 2008

    • MySpace to Open Platform to Developers

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 30, 08 1:00 PM CST

      MySpace to Open Platform to Developers

      Following the lead of rival Facebook, social networking giant MySpace will launch the MySpace Developer Platform next week, giving programmers deeper access to its site--possibly including the ability to tap into MySpace user data, AP reports. MySpace already informally allows programmers to develop widgets for it, and hopes the new platform will help developers make more money through the site. More »

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      Facebook  • MySpace  • Scrabulous  • widget  • platforms

    • Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban

      newser  |  CNET  |  Jan 29, 08 6:45 PM CST

      Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban

      New York's 25,000 convicted sex criminals will be banned from Facebook and MySpace if a bill unveiled today becomes law, CNET reports. Dubbed E-Stop, the legislation requires sex convicts to submit online identities and screen names so participating sites can block them. Those who committed a sex crime over the Internet would have usage controlled by the state's parole board. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • New York  • social networking  • MySpace  • sex crime  • sexual predators

    • Super Bowl Ads Go Online

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 28, 08 1:53 PM CST

      Super Bowl Ads Go Online

      A TV spot during the actual Super Bowl is still advertising's crown jewel, but marketers are increasingly expanding to Internet news, video, search and social networking. The Web lets TV advertisers stretch their investments farther, reports the Wall Street Journal , while letting smaller players get in on the action without shelling out $2.7 million for a 30-second spot. More »

    • Is MySpace Murdoch's Top Investment?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 21, 08 3:21 PM CST

      Is MySpace Murdoch's Top Investment?

      Two years after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought MySpace, and shortly after its two founders signed up for another couple of fabulously well-paid years at the helm, the site is expanding and evolving. Despite challenges (read: Facebook), MySpace represents an impressive return for Murdoch. “He may find that this is the single best investment he has ever made,” Google’s CEO told the New York Times . More »

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      Google  • Rupert Murdoch  • social networking  • MySpace  • News Corp  • Eric Schmidt  • MySpace Celebrity

    • MySpace Adds Anti-Predator Measures

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 14, 08 7:18 PM CST

      MySpace Adds Anti-Predator Measures

      MySpace will add protections to prevent abuse by sexual predators, officials of several states said today. The social networking company reached an agreement with 49 states over concerns about predators contacting children through its popular site. MySpace will also join a working group aimed at developing new technologies, such as age verification, and that other sites will be invited as well, the AP reports. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • Internet security  • sexual predators

    • Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 14, 08 2:52 PM CST

      Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

      With Google, Facebook, and MySpace gnawing at its top-dog status, Yahoo is reinventing some foundation applications to make them appeal to a new generation of users, reports the New York Times . First step? Turbocharging Yahoo Mail to make it more a communications hub and less a post office, a prototype Yahoo demo'd at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. More »

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      Google  • Yahoo  • Facebook  • MySpace  • Jerry Yang  • web traffic  • Consumer Electronics Show  • web portal

    • MySpace Launches Celeb Portal

      newser  |  CNET  |  Jan 10, 08 9:57 AM CST

      MySpace Launches Celeb Portal

      MySpace is rolling out a new section today dedicated to celebrity news and personalities, CNET reports. “MySpace Celebrity” will provide entertainment news, celebrity profiles, and gossip from People magazine, as well as video content. It will also index official celebrity MySpace profiles—which numbered more than 300 at launch. More »

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      celebrity  • Facebook  • MySpace  • gossip  • Tom Anderson  • MySpace Celebrity

  • December 2007

    • MySpace Battles Facebook Buzz to Stay on Top

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Dec 21, 07 1:10 PM CST

      MySpace Battles Facebook Buzz to Stay on Top

      Facing competition for buzz and advertising from much smaller but much-hyped Facebook, MySpace has big plans for expansion. The free-form social networking site's founders want to transform it into a one-stop portal where users can check email and get news. The site is also unveiling new services, expanding overseas, and planning to allow multiple profiles, reports USA Today . More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • Skype  • multiplayer games

    • Her Space is in the Music Biz

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 18, 07 7:15 PM CST

      Her Space is in the Music Biz

        Living with her parents and toiling as a teacher in an after-school program, Ingrid Michaelson’s music career consisted of gigs in a coffee shop and a dream of having one of her songs on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Thanks to MySpace, the dream has come true, a New York Times profile says. Instead of just one song on “Grey’s,” she got three, and then was asked to write a song just for the show.   More »

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      MySpace  • iTunes  • singer  • Grey's Anatomy

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