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New Myspace Facing Music Rights Issue in First Week of Public Launch

New Myspace Facing Music Rights Issue in First Week of Public Launch

By Josh Wolford January 21, 2013

Last week, the all-new Myspace finally opened up to the public after a few-month-long beta period. Its launch, coincidentally, occurred at the same time that investor and head celebrity backer Justin Timberlake launched the new single from his upcoming album. …

Tumblr Breaks Into comScore’s Top 50 Websites Tumblr Breaks Into comScore’s Top 50 Websites

comScore has just released its top 50 ranking for web properties in the U.S. for the month of April, and microblogging platform Tumblr earned a spot in the field, coming in at #47, with roughly 23.5 million unique visitors. According …

Nasdaq Asks How Facebook Connects the World Nasdaq Asks How Facebook Connects the World

It was recently reported that social networking giant Facebook presently has roughly 901 million active users. As the company files its IPO today, Nasdaq has asked some users how Facebook has better connected their world and altered their daily lives. …

Facebook's Master Plan to Colonize Earth in Likes Facebook's Master Plan to Colonize Earth in Likes
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Earlier today, we shared with you the staggering statistic of Facebook users in different countries around the world. For some of those countries, like New Zealand and Brazil, people are so over the moon with the social networking site that …

Myspace Settles with FTC Over User Privacy Myspace Settles with FTC Over User Privacy
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Myspace, the dominant social network before Facebook took over, has just settled with the Federal Trade Commission over user privacy issues, much like Facebook had in November. The FTC contended that Myspace was too vague in its explanation of user …

Online Empires Rise and Fall [Infographic] Online Empires Rise and Fall [Infographic]
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This next infographic comes to us from CenturyLinkQuote.Com and it addresses the issue of the trendy nature of online empires. They layout some very interesting statistics on how long they usually stay in fashion and events that lead to or …

Emeli Sande Featured in New Myspace “One-Two-Watch” Emeli Sande Featured in New Myspace “One-Two-Watch”

If you thought Myspace was defunct as a social networking site, well, you were right. But Myspace is still trying to re-brand itself as a destination on the web for music and entertainment news. To that end, the website has …

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MySpace Gains A Million New Sign-Ups: Good Sign MySpace Gains A Million New Sign-Ups: Good Sign

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What Happens Online When You Die? What Happens Online When You Die?
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It used to be that when a person dies, their family settles all of their affairs left on this physical earth. Our digital selves and reliance on social media has changed all of this. In the bluntly titled, “What happens …

Rupert Murdoch On Facebook IPO And MySpace “Screw-Up” Rupert Murdoch On Facebook IPO And MySpace “Screw-Up”

Rupert Murdoch has really taken to Twitter since joining the social microblogging service recently. He’s not one of those high profile execs that joins and tweets once every two months. He’s on there about every day speaking very candidly about …

Rupert Murdoch Tweets About MySpace: We Screwed Up In Every Way Possible Rupert Murdoch Tweets About MySpace: We Screwed Up In Every Way Possible
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Rupert Murdoch is fairly new to the Twitterverse, but his tweets have captured a lot of attention in that short time. He’s out at CES, and has been offering quick little bytes of commentary about it. Here are a few …

CES 2012: Panasonic And MySpace Team Up For MySpace TV CES 2012: Panasonic And MySpace Team Up For MySpace TV
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Panasonic announced during its CES press conference yesterday that it will be teaming up with MySpace to bring a social media dimension to TV. The service, MySpace TV, will be part of the VIERA Connect platform on Panasonic’s HDTVs. Since …

MySpace Tom: Google Doesn’t Want Google+ To Become A Cesspool Like MySpace MySpace Tom: Google Doesn’t Want Google+ To Become A Cesspool Like MySpace

Tom Anderson, the guy who was everybody’s friend on MySpace (by default), has weighed in on the whole Google censoring profile photos discussion. He’s never had any trouble with his iconic profile pic. Said discussion began this week when tech …

Lots More People Still Use Myspace Than Google+ Lots More People Still Use Myspace Than Google+
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In what is probably a surprise to nobody who uses the Internet with any kind of regularity, Google was the most visited U.S. web brand in 2011. As reported by Nielsen earlier today, the search engine juggernaut maintained an average …

Myspace Wants to Be Hulu for Music Myspace Wants to Be Hulu for Music

I’m not exactly sure how this is much different from what Myspace was already trying to be, but Specific Media, which purchased the social network for $35 million is making music the focus of Myspace going forward. Before the sale, …

New Myspace About to Be Unveiled? New Myspace About to Be Unveiled?
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In late June, it was announced that Specific Media had agreed to acquire Myspace for just $35 million (News Corp. had paid $580 million for it before that). It was also revealed that actor/pop sensation Justin Timberlake would be part …