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Posted May 2, 2012, 11:00 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Industry News
There are two surefire ways to have your name immortalized in history: succeed in your stride toward greatness or, as so many tech firms did in 2011, faceplant trying.

Fresh in our memory are failed products like the Blackberry Playbook, the PlayStation Network getting hacked, Microsoft's Kin smartphones, AMD's FX relaunch and Duke Nukem Forever. Those and a few others have served as inspiration for us to look further back and revisit some of the biggest flops of the new millennia, starting with what many consider Microsoft's worst OS ever.
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Posted April 6, 2012, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, The Web
New York state Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, announced that over 3,580 state registered sex offenders have been "purged" from various online gaming networks. The effort to keep sex offenders away from youthful gamers is part of a state initiative coined…
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Posted February 29, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
According to the latest data from comScore, Google+ users spent an average of 3.3 minutes per month on the social networking site in January. To put that into perspective, Facebook users spent an average of 7.5 hours last month which…
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Posted February 13, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
MySpace has announced that the site has acquired one million new users since December 2011. In addition to the new users, comScore reported last week that monthly traffic to MySpace had increased in January, marking the first increase in nearly…
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Posted January 16, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
News Corp. CEO and founder, Rupert Murdoch, let the tweets fly this weekend humbly claiming he screwed up "in every way possible" with MySpace. Additionally, he accused Google of streaming illegally obtained movies and chastised President Obama for recently stating…
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Posted August 12, 2011, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
In a recent News Corp. conference call discussing the company’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings, it was disclosed that the media conglomerate had lost $254 million on the purchase and subsequent sale of social networking site Myspace.
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Posted June 29, 2011, 6:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Specific Media, a digital media company, has announced it has acquired Myspace, previously called MySpace but now stylized as My_____, from News Corporation. As part of the agreement, News Corporation will take a minority equity stake in Specific Media.
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Posted April 30, 2011, 11:12 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
News Corp. is looking to sell the struggling social network Myspace, previously called MySpace but now stylized as My_____, for $100 million. That's less than 20 percent of what the company originally paid for the website.
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Posted March 29, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Industry News
It has been speculated that News Corp. wants to get rid of Myspace, previously called MySpace but now stylized as My_____, and now it looks like a sale is in order. News Corp. has reportedly hired investment bank Allen &…
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Posted January 11, 2011, 1:32 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Just like the rumors said would happen, MySpace has announced massive layoffs again. Parent company News Corp is exploring all options for the website, including a sale, and a restructuring could make it look more appealing. The social networking company…
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Posted November 18, 2010, 3:42 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
MySpace has announced a new Mashup with Facebook feature that allows users to easily create a personalized stream of entertainment content. Yes, this means users can now log in to MySpace with their Facebook account.
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Posted November 1, 2010, 4:30 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
On average, response times and availability of five major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace) has improved this past quarter, according to Web analytics company AlertSite. This is great news given that all of them (save for possibly…
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Posted September 29, 2010, 3:13 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web
Twitter recently passed MySpace in unique visitors to become the number three social networking service in the world, according to last month's data from comScore (via Digits). Twitter had nearly 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76 percent from…
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