News Topic - MySpace

MySpace reveals first DC Universe Online screenshots
BigDownload has posted the first screenshots for DC Comics and Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming PS3/PC MMO, DC Universe Online. The MySpace page also contains concept art by DC's Wildstorm Studios headed by comic art god, Jim Lee. There are also rumblings that the game will be shown at the San Diego Comic-Con later this month and a private invitation only party on July 25th.
N4G.com  –  Jul 2, 2008 9:09 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Technology: Video Games

Welcome to the Rotten Tech IPO Market
News from Portfolio.comAlso on PortfolioMicrosoft Still Carrying a Flame for YahooStruggling Starbucks to Cut Stores, JobsNew Morgan Hand-Built and High-TechSubscribe to Portfolio magazineThe news about the crummy tech IPO situation seems to worry a lot of people. But some of the best technology gets built in times like these because there is no quick payoff.In the past quarter, for the first time in 30 years, not a single tech company went public. So far, that's more of a blip than a trend, There's no reason to belive this situation will last forever. Still, you've got folks like Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, calling the news a "crisis for the startup community."Bah. It's a crisis for the kinds of people who do tech startups mostly to get rich. Let them move back to Greenwich and become hedge fund managers.When there's no IPO exit, tech startups have to do one of two things: try to get bought by a big company like Cisco or Google, or build an actual, working business with profits and everything. The former is a heck of a risky strategy. The latter tends to push startups to spend more time getting it right. Many of the major tech companies were founded in shaky economic times: Microsoft in 1975; Cisco in 1984; MySpace in 2003.There's another element, too: The cost of starting a company in bad times plummets. Rent is cheaper, computers ditched by some bankrupt start-up can be picked up used, good people can be hired for less. As it is, the cost of starting most kinds of tech companies is one-tenth what it was 10 years ago, because the technology and tools have gotten so much cheaper and more effective.So a company that needed $5 million just to get off the ground in 1998 now needs maybe $500,000. More and more, that money is being raised from private investors instead of venture capitalists, and the money is more patient -- not pushing so hard for an IPO payday. Again, that's probably better for the long-term prospects of a start-up.It wouldn't be good if the IPO situation stays this bad for very long, but it's not the end of the world, and it's no worse than when the IPO market is ridiculously hot and people are starting companies with nothing but dollar signs in their eyes.
Wired News  –  Jul 2, 2008 3:20 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Rock the Vote, MySpace Start Competition
Rock the Vote and MySpace have struck a deal that combines grass-roots voter registration drives with music promotion and live events.
PC Magazine  –  Jul 2, 2008 3:03 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Technology: Computer

Microsoft held talks to find Yahoo buy-up partner
Microsoft has held discussions with companies including News Corporation and Time Warner about a joint deal to buy and split Yahoo, according to a US media report. Under the new deal Microsoft would take Yahoo's search business while another partner, such as News Corporation's MySpace or Time Warner's AOL, would inherit the rest of the internet company's operations. According to report in today's Wall Street Journal, two weeks ago, the Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, called the Yahoo chairman, Roy Bostock, suggesting a meeting to discuss a new plan involving other partners. However, the meeting, scheduled for Monday, did not happen, indicating that Microsoft's attempts to bring partners on board did not work out. The WSJ cited "people familiar with these talks" who believed that a new joint deal with Yahoo was unlikely to be tabled. Microsoft walked away from attempting to takeover Yahoo outright in May after the rejection of an improved $47.5bn (£23.8bn) offer. Last month, Kevin Johnson, the president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, revealed that Yahoo had also turned down an alternative deal of an $8bn investment for a 16% stake and $1bn to purchase its search operation. Dissident investor Carl Icahn has been piling pressure on Yahoo's senior management to strike a deal with Microsoft. On August 1, the company will hold a vote on whether to accept a new slate of directors proposed by Icahn. The WSJ report today said that Microsoft representatives also met Icahn to encourage him in his proxy battle. The Yahoo chief executive, Jerry Yang, subsequently signed a 10-year deal with Google, which he says will be worth $800m a year, to prove to investors that the company was right to spurn Microsoft. However, today it has emerged that the US Justice Department is to conduct a probe into the deal between the top two players in the US search market to see whether it falls foul of competition laws. · To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 7278 2332. · If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".
The Guardian  –  Jul 2, 2008 12:50 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Jilted Tila Tequila Posts Angry MySpace Message
A day after being rejected by Kristy Morgan on A Shot at Love, Tila posts a vitriolic poem
People.com  –  Jul 2, 2008 08:30 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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FamilyLink.com, Inc. Acquires My Family Application on Facebook and MySpace: Extends FamilyLink.com Lead as Top Publisher of Social Networking Applica
FamilyLink.com, Inc., the company behind We’re Related, the No.1 family application on Facebook, has acquired the popular My Family application, which has more than 1.5 million users across five social networks, including Facebook and MySpace.The My Family app lets social networking users creatively represent their family members and pets on their web pages with cute stick figure icons. More than 8,000 new users [PR.com - July 02, 2008]
PR.com  –  Jul 2, 2008 07:36 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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BlackWaterEvents.com Surpasses 1,000 MySpace Friends
Less than one month after launching their MySpace.com profile, BlackWaterEvents.com has exceeded 1,000 friends. [PR.com - July 02, 2008]
PR.com  –  Jul 2, 2008 07:07 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Teen's MySpace porn photos investigated
VICTORIA Police and the FBI are investigating the posting of pornographic photographs of a 13-year-old Melbourne girl on MySpace.
News.com.au  –  Jul 2, 2008 04:11 AM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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Bands Divided Over MySpace Play-Count Boosters
There are some pretty tricky ways for bands to feign stardom on MySpace Music. The site wants users and abusers to know that they're hot on the trail of such mischief.
Wired News  –  Jul 1, 2008 8:05 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
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More Missouri sex offender profiles stricken from MySpace
The profiles of 370 registered sex offenders in Missouri have been removed from the online social networking site MySpace in recent months.
KansasCity.com  –  Jul 1, 2008 6:30 PM [GMT]  ¦  comment?
found in Local: Missouri: Kansas City