The latest in MySpace Inc.

Lesbian Prom Date

2010-03-11T18:33:19Z

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, reads her many messages from Facebook and Myspace concerning her desire to attend her senior prom with a same-sex date ...

MySpace upping ante in online social games

2010-03-11T06:15:59Z

<div><p>MySpace began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize on the booming popularity of playing games online at social networks.</p><p>"We initially embraced games a few years back with a gaming platform, but at the end of the day it was fairly isolated in certain parts of MySpace," MySpace co-president Mike Jones told AFP at a MySpace outlines makeover after executive shake up in hopes of carving out entertainment niche</div><div><p>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 t...

MySpace Makeover

2010-03-09T19:45:46Z

In this photo released Tuesday March 9,2010 by MySpace showing Jason Hirschhorn,38, left, and Mike Jones,34 right at the MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Monday March 8, 2010. The two new co-presidents of MySpace were announced ...

MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth

2010-03-09T19:30:28Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.</p><p>Mike Jones, who took over as co-president last month ...

Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook

2010-03-09T01:30:11Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals.&l...

Facebook wins US patent for 'news feeds'

2010-02-27T03:15:42Z

<div><p>Facebook has won a US patent on news feeds behind the kinds of real-time updates that make social-networking websites a hit with users.</p><p>"The launch of News Feed in 2006 was a pivotal moment in Facebook?s history and changed the way millions of people consumed and discovered information on the site," Facebook said Friday in an email response to ...

Facebook patents social networking update feeds

2010-02-27T00:16:25Z

kesha myspace gig 2

2010-02-23T18:32:57Z

Pop star Ke$ha leaving her "secret" Myspace gig in East London, wearing a Zebra print cat-suit and holding a cane. The party ended up being not so secret, with hundreds of fans queuing for hours in the freezing cold, only to be turned away at the door. London, England - 22.02.10

kesha myspace gig

2010-02-23T18:32:50Z

MySpace CEO steps down

2010-02-22T10:08:49Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - News Corp has replaced the CEO of the social networking site MySpace less than a year after hiring him, and said a discussion of his priorities led both sides to agree to a parting.&am...

Van Natta resigning as MySpace CEO

2010-02-22T10:14:05Z

<div id="subtitle">Van Natta resigning as CEO of News Corp's MySpace after less than a year</div><div><p>Owen Van Natta is stepping down as CEO of struggling social networking site MySpace, effective immediately, after less than a year on the job.</p><p>MySpace's parent, USA, Owen Van Natta, speaking during a social networking session at the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland...

TechBits package

2010-02-22T10:18:31Z

<div id="subtitle">TechBits: MySpace audio ads; Facebook on AIM; Australian Internet filters</div><div><p>Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.</p><p>The 30-second ads began appeari...

MySpace Music experiments with audio ads

2010-02-22T10:44:05Z

<div id="subtitle">MySpace Music tests out audio ads to stem falling search, ad revenue at MySpace</div><div><p>Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.</p><p>The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on artist pr...

Police: Fugitive's Facebook info leads to arrest

2010-02-22T11:22:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Police to NY fugitive: Thanks for all the Facebook and MySpace info; now you're under arrest</div><div><p>Police in western New York say a fugitive all but turned himself in by posting his workplace on Facebook and MySpace.</p>&l...

Rulings cloud issue of school MySpace suspensions

2010-02-22T11:48:31Z

<div id="subtitle">ACLU: Twin rulings cloud law on Pa. school discipline for MySpace parodies posted off-campus</div><div><p>Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether schools can discipline students for Internet speech posted offsite reached different rulings Thursday in two New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he is sending letters to 14 Web sites that primarily cater to children, urging them to provide further protections against the threat of sexual predators online. Cuomo says the sites should screen their member lists using e-STOP data, a compilation o...

Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members

2010-02-22T12:42:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Gang members increasingly use Twitter, Facebook to boast about crime, threaten rivals and more</div><div><p>When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant.</p&...

Followers good, dollars better for social media

2010-02-22T14:06:37Z

<div id="subtitle">Social media chiefs converge in Davos, finding big profits still elusive despite heavy use</div><div><p>The leaders of Facebook and other social media sites have long seen some grim writing on their wall. While spectacular popularity has turned them into household names, they haven't found a way to transform all those frien...