ft.com - 10/22/2009
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Published: October 22 2009 00:03 | Last updated: October 22 2009 00:03 The new chief executive of MySpace has told the Financial Times that the company is no longer interested in competing with Facebook, in effect conceding defeat in the race to become the largest online social network. Owen Van ...
kara.allthingsd.com - 10/27/2009
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Microsoft’s MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace
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Music, to help power music offerings on the giant portal. While sources at both companies cautioned the talks were ...
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telegraph.co.uk - 10/26/2009
developers.facebook.com - 10/26/2009
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Each week, users share more than 2 billion
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MySpace Launches Service To Revive What MTV Once Had: Music Videos
SocialTimes.com —
... At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta announced a number of new MySpace Music products. One of the most significant products is MySpace Music Videos which not only brings back music videos but also ironically heavily resembles the design styling of the MTV website. While the Financial Times may be convinced by Owen Van Natta’s statement that “Facebook is not our competition”, we aren’t. ...
MySpace In Talks To Share Content With Facebook Via Connect
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... The Telegraph. The news comes less than a week after MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, a former Facebook executive, publicly declared that his firm no longer considers Facebook to be a competitor—and it would obviously reinforce that notion. Instead, Van Natta is focusing his site on music, with the acquisition of iLike and a ...
MySpace Users May Soon Be Able To Share Content On Facebook Using Connect
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... This deal is probably being set up by current MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta. Natta was the previous Chief Revenue Officer and VP of Operations at Facebook. This means that you may start seeing MySpace Videos and music being embedded on the Facebook News Feed. Last week Natta even said that he does not consider Facebook to be a competitor any more. ...
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