kara.allthingsd.com - 11/11/2008
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Former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta will take the CEO job at a music discovery site called Playlist, a move that has been widely speculated, after he did not end up taking another position he had been in talks about as head of MySpace Music.
Van Natta’s arrival at Playlist was not ...
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Despite its surging Internet audience, Facebook Inc. has
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of advertisers. Now it's trying a new tactic to woo Madison Avenue. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is rolling out a new ad format called "engagement ...
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Facebook Tries to Woo Marketers
alleyinsider.com - 11/11/2008
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Facebook's common stock is now changing hands in
private sales at about a $4 billion valuation, a...
source says (unconfirmed). And Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is indeed trying to raise money in Dubai , the source says (also unconfirmed). As we all know, ...
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Facebook Stock Now Worth About $4 Billion
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Industry Moves: Playlist Gets Facebook Vet As New CEO; Investment From Pilot Group
paidContent —
... Update: Rafat adds: Kara says the new funding is much larger than the first round, and is around $18 to $20 million. Playlist has been borderline legal for a while, offering links to many illegal music sites (shades of Baidu ( ...
Ex-Facebook COO takes Project Playlist CEO gig [Owen Van Natta]
Gawker: valleywag —
... , has gotten the CEO job he said he wanted — as the new chief of Project Playlist, an online-music startup. (It's been widely reported that MySpace wooed him to run its MySpace Music spinoff. He also had conversations with social-news site Digg and shopping search engine Nextag, among others.) Van Natta's an investor in Project Playlist, and the company has just announced funding from former AOL CEO Bob Pittman's Pilot Group. But powerful backers won't change the toxic business environment all online-music startups face. ...
Project Playlist hires Owen Van Natta and raises $20M, but for what?
VentureBeat —
Project Playlist, an interactive streaming music site and application provider on social networks, has raised nearly $20 million from the Pilot Group and brought on former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta as its new chief executive.
Van Natta, who held positions like Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Facebook from its early days until last February, was also an early investor in Project Playlist. After leaving Facebook, he was reportedly in the running to be chief executive of MySpace Music, which may have conflicted ...
Van Natta takes helm at Project Playlist
Webware.com —
... There's finally an end to the speculation over what former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta would do next: he's taken the job as CEO of a site called Project Playlist, according to Kara Swisher of AllThingsD. He'd already been an investor in the music discovery company; there have been blog reports about his new gig for ...
Van Natta takes helm at Project Playlist
The Social —
... There's finally an end to the speculation over what former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta would do next: he's taken the job as CEO of a site called Project Playlist, according to Kara Swisher of AllThingsD. He'd already been an investor in the music discovery company; there ... ...
How Will Owen Van Natta Turn Piracy Into Profits?
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... and AllThingsD both report it is in the range of $15 million. So how again does Project Playlist plan to make enough money to pay the labels? Mr. Van Natta says he knows but isn’t telling. “I’ve looked at the space very carefully,” he said. “I have looked at the assets that Playlist has. I have a model that will work for me, for the users most importantly, for the record labels and for our shareholders.”
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... some of its most popular content, reports The Hollywood Reporter . The service will be part of the Sky Player , Sky's online video-on-demand (VOD) setup, and a Web subscription will be separate from a satellite TV one. The in-the-pipes offering hasn't been given the thumbs-up yet by content owners, nor have the possible difficulties arising from the higher-bandwidth requirements been fully addressed by the company. In other news: Ex- Facebook exec Owen Van Natta has taken the CEO spot at Project Playlist , the "social music experiment, according ...
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Ex-Facebook COO takes Project Playlist CEO gig [Owen Van Natta]
valleywag.com 11/11/2008 — Be careful what you wish for. Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook COO who left the social network in February , has gotten the CEO job he said he wanted — as the new chief of Project Playlist, an online-music startup. (It's been widely reported ...
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valleywag.com 11/11/2008 — owen van natta Ex-Facebook COO takes Project Playlist CEO gig Be careful what you wish for. Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook COO who left the social network in February , has gotten the CEO job he said he wanted as the new chief of Project ...
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Facebook Joins MySpace In Banning Project Playlist
paidcontent.org 12/24/2008 — Facebook resisted a few days longer than MySpace but finally has given in to the RIAA's demands that the Project Playlist app be removed for copyright violation. It's been a real take-one-step-forward and two-steps-back few days for Project Playlist ...
Van Natta Confirmed as CEO of MySpace–The Full Press Release
kara.allthingsd.com 4/24/2009 —
Former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta has taken the job as CEO of MySpace, as BoomTown reported yesterday .
He will replace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe, who stepped down from the job earlier this week. DeWolfe will remain a strategic adviser ...
Facebook Twice as Big as MySpace?
marketingpilgrim.com 1/28/2009 — At the rate Facebook has been growing these past two months, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Facebook gets more traffic than MySpace. comScore’s latest report, however, claims that not only is Facebook bigger than MySpace, it’s ...
Making Money On MySpace: Payments and Virtual Gifts Coming Soon
techcrunch.com 11/7/2008 — In the platform wars between Facebook on the one side and MySpace, Google, and the whole OpenSocial crew on the other, the side that makes it easier for application developers to make the most money will win. Advertising in social networks has always ...
Facebook Now Nearly Twice The Size Of MySpace Worldwide
techcrunch.com 1/23/2009 —
In November 2008 Facebook drew 200 million unique worldwide visitors; more than 1 in 5 people who accessed the Internet that month visited the site. When sites are that big growth generally stagnates, but in Facebook’s case it’s still ...
Lads from Lagos target Facebook —
The Register 11/11/2008
Beware 'friends' bearing begging bowl The ever-resourceful Lads from Lagos have been hanging around Facebook hoping to extract a few bucks from the unwary, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.…
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