News Corp. may start Chinese MySpace
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch says his Chinese-born wife, Wendi Deng, is in China with the company’s executives to help launch a Chinese version of its popular MySpace social networking Web site, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Murdoch, speaking in New York, said the company is trying to find a way to enter the Chinese market without [...]
How to Download Videos From YouTube and MySpace
Considering the craze over YouTube and MySpace that has overtaken the world as of late, there is an increasing demand to learn how to rip video and audio from pages on these sites. I’ll first go over how to rip video clips with a guide on how to rip audio to follow.
Now the only [...]
Meet the iTunes Wannabes
From MySpace to AOL, the list of would-be iTunes rivals is getting longer, but don’t expect them to knock Apple from its perch just yet
There’s a lot of buzz of late about new iTunes competitors that aim to change how you download music for portable devices. Haven’t heard it? Turn down your iPod.
On Sept. 5, [...]
MySpace to enable members to sell music
MySpace.com will soon enable members of the popular online social networking hub to sell downloads of their original music directly through MySpace Web pages, company executives said.
The initiative, which is still in a test phase, has the potential to turn millions of computer users, many of them independent or aspiring artists already using the site [...]
20th Century Fox to sell movies on IGN, MySpace
Twentieth Century Fox will start to sell movies including “X-Men: The Last Stand” and TV shows like “24″ from Web sites owned by parent News Corp. in the company’s first step in the online movie market.
Fox Interactive Media said it will begin to sell movies and shows on the Direct2Drive download site, owned by Fox’s [...]
Google signs $900m News Corp deal
Google is to provide search and advertising on MySpace.com and other websites owned by News Corporation’s Fox International Media.
The deal will see Google pay Fox at least $900m (£472m) provided certain web traffic targets are met.
However the agreement does not include FoxSports.com, which already has contracts with Microsoft and MSN.
Google said online community MySpace was [...]
Viacom mulls bid for networking site
Viacom, the US media group, is considering a bid for Bebo, the social networking site.
The acquisition would represent the latest attempt by Viacom to regain ground lost to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in the social networking and user-generated content realm.
Viacom lost out to its rival in a bidding war last year for MySpace, now the [...]
YouTube overtakes MySpace
YouTube has established itself at the top of the league of the new generation of community websites by becoming even more popular than MySpace, according to research.
The video sharing site has taken a 3.9% share of global internet visits a day compared with 3.35% for MySpace, according to internet analysis company Alexa.
YouTube’s popularity has grown [...]
Chat rooms could face expulsion
Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives.
By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that “chat rooms” and “social networking sites” be rendered inaccessible to minors, an age [...]
“Adult” Web company launches MySpace-styled site
The operators of an X-rated online video game on Wednesday debuted Utherverse.com, an adults-only site that aims to duplicate the success of wildly popular teen hangout MySpace.com.
Owners of the new site, who recently launched RedLightCenter.com, expect to have more than 1 million registered users by the end of 2006 and encourage members to upload erotic [...]
