venturebeat.com - 10/17/2008
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We’re hearing from sources close to social networking company MySpace that the company expects to hit $1 billion in revenue this year, or at worst be within a hair’s breadth of that number. Meanwhile, MySpace executives say that they only see growth in revenue ahead, despite the ...
nypost.com - 10/17/2008
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Posted: 4:39 am October 17, 2008 Facebook boss
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digital-music business in the wake of MySpace's launch of MySpace Music last month. The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of ...
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ksolo.myspace.com - 10/15/2008
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MySpace Could Reach A Billion This Year
WebProNews Feed —
... Not Bad Considering This Economy MySpace Things aren't looking too bad for MySpace right now in the financial department. As the economy is in a shambles, MySpace seems to be one of the businesses poised to overcome it and actually see growth. VentureBeat is reporting that sources close to MySpace are expecting revenue for the year to reach $1 billion (give or take). If that number is accurate, it would be a significant amount of growth up from a reported $850 million last year. VB's Matt Marshall writes: MySpace has been helped by the guaranteed revenue deal from Google, ...
MySpace Shoots for $1 Billion This Year as they Ponder Music Structure
SocialTimes.com —
... One source at MySpace told PaidContent, “We’re pretty happy with the way things have been working to get us to this launch; the idea we have to do things completely separately doesn’t seem to be as relevant.” Sounds like they are pretty happy as it is! Also of interest is confirmation that MySpace is on target to reach $1 billion in revenue this year. These numbers have been passed on for some time and Matt Marshall has appeared to confirm these estimates. ...
News Bits: Yahoo Might Lay Off 3,000
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... expects its earnings to hit the $1 billion mark this year, despite economic downturn, VentureBeat reports. This is compared to the $300 million expected by Facebook, which actually exceeds MySpace in traffic. MySpace, which is in its fifth year, also looks to be making progress more quickly than Google, which took six years to hit $1 billion in sales.
Around the Web 10.17.08: Staying alive in a shaky market
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... Long live the Queen: Even the Queen is touting Google, with a visit to the Internet giant in London. GeekSugar
-- Get your groove on: Time to start a start-up. PaulGraham
-- You should be dancing: Facebook to start a music service a la MySpace Music? NYPost
-- Upside down: MySpace may defy gravity. It's expected to reach $1 billion in revenue this year. VentureBeat
-- Don't Leave Me This Way: Pandora, Zivity and others lay ...
Quick Bits: Fat Times for Google, Lean Ones for Credit Thieves
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... [GigaOm] Just because Congress pardoned AT&T for helping the government spy doesn’t mean the courts won’t look at the question. MySpace on target to do $1B in sales this year, defies downturn [VentureBeat] Rumors that Rupert Murdoch’s social network may be selling more ads than it thought. ...
MySpace wants to remind you that glitter text on profiles makes bank [Earnings]
Gawker: valleywag —
Downturn? What downturn? Strategically placed sources are whispering that MySpace is likely to hit $1 billion in annual revenue, a jump from its $850 million in revenue last year. The milestone is impressive since MySpace is joining the $1 billion club in only five years, a year faster than Google. Facebook, meanwhile, is just too cool to worry about revenue or releasing products. [VentureBeat]
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readwriteweb.com 10/13/2008 — When in doubt, follow the leader. That's what MySpace seems to be doing with the release of MySpace MyAds , a service that - on the surface - appears to have a great deal in common with another successful ad model, Google AdWords.
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macnn.com 10/23/2008 — MySpace tonight kicked off the formal appearance of MySpace Music , its first commercial music service. The feature takes advantage of existing hooks for streaming music to offer on-demand, ad-subsidized playback of full tracks from the website but ...
MySpace Puts The Hammer Down On Project Playlist
techcrunch.com 12/20/2008 — MySpace is getting back into the business of blocking third party widgets, it seems - today they’ve banned embedded music widgets from the fast growing Project Playlist . But unlike previous 2006 and 2007 blocks of iMeem , Photobucket and many ...
Project Playlist Gets Tangled In MySpace Music CEO Search
techcrunch.com 10/28/2008 — Project Playlist is one of the many online music services that have popped up over the last few years. It’s both a search engine and a playlist generator - users search for music that’s located on third party websites and then create ...
hi5 guns for Facebook —
Technology news - CNNMoney.com 10/15/2008
If you aren't a Spanish-speaking teenager, you probably haven't heard of the third-largest social networking site in the world: hi5.com. Founders Ramu Yalamanchi and Akash Garg don't much care. Because more than a year after Facebook and MySpace ...
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