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WebProNews - Mon Nov 9, 12:22 pm ET
Don't be shocked if ads for 420,000 square feet of office space start popping up all over MySpace. It seems that the social networking company no longer intends to use a particular facility, but until it can unload the space, has gotten stuck paying over $1 million per month. Matthew Garrahan reported late yesterday, "The company is locked into a 12-year lease worth about $350m that it signed ...
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USA Today - Mon Nov 9, 9:26 pm ET
Twilight series author Stephenie Meyer will spend Friday the 13th making a live appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham - Mon Nov 9, 5:46 pm ET
The director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) says cyber criminals are using bogus messages claiming to be from the social networking site MySpace to connect unsuspecting users with Web pages that can deliver a virus capable of stealing victims’ bank passwords and other sensitive personal information.
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The Kansas City Star - Mon Nov 9, 11:32 pm ET
NEW YORK | Electronic Arts plans to cut its work force by 17 percent as it tries to align its business with a transforming video game industry. The company announced the layoffs of 1,500 people just hours after it said it is paying at least $275 million to buy Playfish Inc., a maker of social online games popular on Facebook, MySpace and the iPhone.
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TechJournal South - 45 minutes ago
ATLANTA - Are you marketing your goods and services on social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace or Second Life? Do you know if others are using your brands to market themselves or their own companies?
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NBC26 Green Bay - 1 hour 59 minutes ago
Lawmakers are taking notice of social networking sites. They say sex offenders are hanging out at places like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Now, there is a move underway to make these sites safer for kids.
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USA Today - Mon Nov 9, 6:39 pm ET
Carrie Underwood returns to the Grand Ole Opry Saturday, and you can watch her even if you aren't in Nashville. MySpace has teamed with the Opry to stream the show live with video for the first time. The stream will run from 9-10 p.m. Eastern, and Carrie will perform songs from Play On, including Cowboy Casanova.
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The Oklahoman - Tue Nov 10, 1:00 am ET
Late Sunday night, 31-year-old Jose Fernando Fierro posted on his MySpace page that he was "tired” and "kick’n back having a few beers.”By morning, flames had gutted his home and firefighters found the bodies of three women and one man inside. Oklahoma City fire and homicide investigators were working Monday to piece together what happened.The state medical examiner’s office has not confirmed ...
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 5 minutes ago
MIAMI----Bill Zucker, the creator of the Tarp Song, the world famous video parody of the US government’s bailout that was seen on CNBC, FOX, VH1, MSNBC, etc. has done it again with the brand new “The Twitter Song.” The video, dealing with the growing real life computer addiction of Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, can be seen now on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...
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All About Jazz - Sun Nov 8, 9:09 pm ET
stats via Alexa...
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Seattle Times - Mon Nov 9, 2:02 pm ET
Apparently, Adam Jones' brother, Jonathan, has spilled the beans on his MySpace page that Adam has won a Gold Glove. The awards will be announced tomorrow at around noon on the MLB network (not today, as I said earlier; I read the calendar wrong), but the players indeed have known for awhile, so I give this report credibility.
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1up.com - Mon Nov 9, 2:38 pm ET
Electronic Arts has acquired social games firm Playfish, broadening a casual gaming portfolio that already includes The Sims' Maxis. Based in London, the firm has become known for their Facebook, MySpace and iPhone games like 'Who Has The Biggest Brain?' "Social gaming, with its emphasis on friends and community, is seeing tremendous growth and this is the right time to invest to strengthen our ...
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The Mac Observer - Mon Nov 9, 2:36 pm ET
Electronic Arts on Monday announced its acquisition of Playfish, a social games developer known for Pet Society and Country Story on Facebook, along with other games available on MySpace, Bebo, Android, and Google. The company has one title in the App Store, Who Has the Biggest Brain? a brain training game.
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Missoulian - Mon Nov 9, 6:39 pm ET
A St. Ignatius man faces felony charges for trying to have sex with a 14-year-old girl he contacted through a MySpace Internet conversation.
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times - Mon Nov 9, 1:01 pm ET
GEORGE WEST — She has given up countless hours of television or time whittled away on teenage staples such as MySpace. Between school, extracurricular activities and volunteer work her only moments of downtime are the many vacations she has donated to her church youth group. And 17-year-old Hillary Sellman wouldn’t have it any other way. “When I was little, my mom used to tell me that giving ...