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LOS ANGELES----MySpace will host the exclusive live stream of Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon red carpet arrivals at the world premiere on Monday, November 16 at www.myspace.com/newmoonpremiere.
image of Josiah Wolf, Yoni Wolf, and Doug McDiarmid from band MySpace Despite its confoundingly inquisitive band name and general unclassifiability, the Bay Area/Cincinnati hip hop/indie act Why? has built quite the niche for themselves, satisfying those with a love for rhyme and meticulous, tightly-wound musicianship. Toss in a lyric sheet of ear-catching revelations regarding the human psyche ...
Way back in 2006, MySpace and Google signed a three-year deal that was supposed to have the search giant become the social network's exclusive search provider in exchange for $900 million. Now, unfortunately for MySpace, around $100 million of that amount isn't going to change hands. The amount of money Google was supposed to pay MySpace was in part dependent on traffic levels, and it's no ...
Along with Lala's new deal to provide enhanced music search results for Google alongside MySpace and others comes word that indie artists and label will be able to control and improve the content of their search results according to Matt Rosoff on CNet's "Eventually, artists will be able to use Lala's platform to ensure that specific content, such as a new song, shows up in the music search ...
Having lost ground to Facebook and Twitter, the company signals a shift to entertainment for MySpace. Emphasizing a major shift in strategy, News Corp. all but conceded Wednesday that its once-dominant social network MySpace is no longer competitive with rival Facebook or micro-blogging service Twitter and will seek to rebuild the site around entertainment.
Weeks shy of her 14th birthday, Missouri teen Megan Meier killed herself.She had entered into a relationship with a boy via the social networking site MySpace. The "boy" -- in actuality the mother of Megan's so-called "friend" -- began sending harassing messages to Megan.
The takeaway: The site [MySpace] is losing traffic and money and no longer expects to get all of the $900 million it once counted on from a Google search deal. Also, the company really doesn't know what to expect of the property going forward, except that it's a work in progress.
Social networking leaders tighten policies about deceptive ads in third-party apps.
Did Rupert Murdoch wait way too long to fix MySpace? It's easy to get that impression from the News Corp. earnings call today. The takeaway: The site is losing traffic and money, and no longer expects to get all of the $900 million it once counted on from a Google search deal.
Tales of Star Trek piracy and sexy slumber party pics topped the week's tech and science stories. Here's what was hot over the past seven days. Two high school student athletes got in hot water after pictures from a slumber party posted on MySpace—with privacy controls, no less—ended up on the principal's desk. After being barred from extracurricular activities, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on the ...
Just five days ago Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said mobile subscriptions, among other scammy offers, would be removed from Zynga's popular Facebook and MySpace games. "We have also removed all mobile ads until we see any that offer clear user value," he said. So we were surprised yesterday to see a screen shot clearly showing a mobile subscription ad in a post on InsideSocialGames about the launch of ...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed federal antitrust charges against Intel this week, with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission expected to follow suit. Security problems yet again snagged a lot of IT headline attention, including news about yet another flaw affecting Facebook and MySpace users. To mix things up, we've got IT angles to Beatles music and the Boston Celtics in there, too.
When you sit down and think about it, it seems clear that there should be more game show web series than there are at present. After all, many companies prefer nonfiction to scripted programming , and the opportunities for branding and product placement are baked right into the structure via prizes and giveaways.
A Facebook developer named Yvo Schaap has uncovered a massive security flaw present on both Facebook and MySpace that would give hackers the ability to steal all of your account data, including your photos, personal messages, and basically everything else you've ever put on the social networks, without you ever realizing it. Update: MySpace tells us that in their case no private data was ...
Janelle Monae will be performing tonight at Siren Studio | Picture via Janelle Monae's Myspace Our Pick: Kia Soul Collective presents Janelle Monae, Fool's Gold @ Siren Studio (1050 N. Orange Dr., Hollywood) Tonight local indie rock outfit Saint Motel 's ( LAist Interview ) will be performing at the Roxy with none other than Rumspringa (LAist Review , #2 ) and Army Navy (LAist Interview , #2 ...
Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Google experience. In fact, Google music search does more than just return a few track listings; it offers up audio streaming, one-click purchase options from iLike and Lala ...
