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Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of extinction.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:27:00 GMT - (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Gaming Will Drive MySpace, Execs Say
How will MySpace regain its footing in the social networking space? A month after losing Owen Van Natta as chief executive in favor of two co-presidents, the News Corp.-owned site announced Wednesday that its new focus will be on gaming.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:53:50 GMT - (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
MySpace upping ante in online social games
MySpace began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:39:22 GMT - (AFP via Yahoo! News)
MySpace Revamps for Revival
As Google takes on the social networking world with Buzz, and Facebook and Twitter bring out location-sharing ala Foursquare, does anybody remember the social networking site that started it all? MySpace has had a tough year -- with employee cuts and CEO resignations -- but the company's new co-presidents are seeking to turn the site around with a new look, a new mantra ("Discover and be ...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:40:00 GMT - (PC World via Yahoo! News)
MySpace Extends Social Network to Microsoft Outlook
The new MySpace leadership has an ambitious goal to rebrand and rebuild the once-dominant social networking site, and developing an Outlook social connector may be a key element of that strategy.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:06:25 GMT - (PC World)
Teen Stabbed over MySpace Fight
A 17-year olive branch boy is recovering at The Med Thursday after being stabbed over a posting on the social networking website MySpace.
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:59:40 GMT - (FOX 13 Memphis)
Harmon Leon: MySpace Continues Its Slow Bataan Death March: Their Focus Now Is On Video Games
The L.A. Times wrote a story entitled: MySpace looks to the past for its future. Really? The story goes on to say, "The social...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:14:11 GMT - (The Huffington Post)
MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to the other social networking sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:12:53 GMT - (AP via Yahoo! News)
MySpace Makeover Focuses on Entertainment
By RYAN NAKASHIMA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES | Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:25:03 GMT - (The Lakeland Ledger)
MySpace turns to games to regain prominence
MySpace is turning to video games to help the former social-networking king recoup its share of Internet relevancy that it lost to Facebook. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, MySpace Inc. co-President Mike Jones launched a new "...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:30:40 GMT - (San Francisco Chronicle)