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Myspace, which is no longer myspace or yourspace, could be someoneelsesspace

Jan 13, 2011
After slashing the company's work force by half, executives at parent company News Corp said they are exploring possibilities to merge the over-the...

Myspace hammer comes down

Jan 11, 2011
As expected, 500 people get laid off. That's 47% of their work force. I actually was putting this in the show, this little item, and I struggled...

Myspace to lay off 500-600 tomorrow

Jan 10, 2011
Great day to be working at Verizon tomorrow, good day to work at Apple, bad day to work at AT&T, horrible day to work at Myspace. Or perhaps a...

Myspace becomes mashup/extension of Facebook

Nov 19, 2010
The big announcement yesterday had to do with being able to log on to Myspace through Facebook Connect and port all their "like"d pages over. So if...

MIDDAY UPDATE: Sustainable jobs and cell phones

Oct 27, 2010
This week on Marketplace we'll be following sustainable jobs. Today, we learned about the fastest growing industry in the job field: biomedical...

MySpace offers dramatic redesign to user pages

Jul 16, 2010
(Buried lede: MySpace still exists!) One of the main selling points to MySpace used to be that it let users design their own pages – use crazy...

MySpace collapses some more

Jun 18, 2010
It wasn't that long ago that MySpace defined social media. You could customize your page, make friends who weren't really your friends. Yes kids,...

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Tech News In Brief - 5/21/10

May 21, 2010
Facebook and MySpace send user data to advertisersMore countries are mad at GoogleiPads - not available in stores!Yahoo + Nokia = BFF. Or at least...