Tag: NEWSCORP

The ever popular MySpace social network has banged out a special Japanese version of the networking service, and launched it today. MySpace is currently running national versions in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, and in the UK. This new language integration is a team effort between News Corp. and Japanes bank Softbank. The main competition in Japan for MySpace is the 6 million member service ...

The Google team is out and knocking at the doors of traditional media outlets trying to get them to supply their content to YouTube in an effort to knock off lawsuits that could begin to sprout up surrounding copyright issues. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other executives have met with CBS, Viacom, Time Warner, NBC Universal, and News Corp. amongst others talking about offering payments upwards of ...

Social networking juggernaut MySpace is experiencing some post-acquisition woes in the form of complaints by former shareholders. Among them is MySpace co-founder Brad Greenspan, who says that MySpace parent company Intermix Media knowingly sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for far less than its true value and locked out other bidders including Viacom. Greenspan has released a nine-chapter ...

Last we checked in on Facebook it was reportedly in serious talks with Yahoo! for a billion-dollar buy-out. This week comes news that Viacom, long considered a prime candidate for ownership of Facebook after its "humiliating" loss to News Corp. in the battle for Myspace, has ruled out bidding for the booming social networking site. Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone recently told Charlie Rose that ...

Peter Chernin, CEO of MySpace's parent company, Newscorp thinks web 2.0 is driven by MySpace. He is quoted as saying "If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it's Flickr, whether it's Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace." He is naive and needs to do his research. It is true ...

What do you do when you're a huge media conglomerate and the huge media conglomerate across the street owns the biggest social networking site in town? You buy the next biggest social networking site in town, of course! Okay, so Bebo isn't actually the second-biggest social networking site in the U.S. (that would be Facebook, according to Hitwise), but it's pretty darn huge, and in a move ...

SingleStat.us, a service I covered earlier this month that will notify you when your special someone changes their MySpace status, has been shut down by those buzz-killers at News Corp., MySpace's parent company. The site's creator, David Weekly, has posted the cease & desist letter from MySpace's lawyers as well has his response at the SingleStat.us web site. The lawyers allege trademark ...

What's going down at Under the Radar, the "early stage technology innovation" conference happening right now? News Corp. company Fox Interactive is shopping, apparently. According to ZDNet's Dan Farber, Fox's Ron Levinson revealed yesterday that he had just bought one of the companies at the event. Which company? Well, the ink isn't yet dry on the deal and Levinson isn't saying. Farber ...