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Update: 4 Reasons Owen Took On MySpace And How He Can Save It

May 4, 2009

MySpace’s newly appointed CEO Owen Van Natta officially took over as CEO of MySpace today. He sits at the bottom of a gigantic traffic slope that is Facebook. On a global basis, Facebook attracted more than twice as many visitors in the month of March as arch-rival MySpace.
Facebook had an estimated 294.7 million unique visitors [...]

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Office 14 Not Coming This Year Says Ballmer

February 24, 2009

Every year, good ol’ Steve Ballmer shows up to Wall Street for his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with analysts on February 24. Despite rising anticipation, the Microsoft CEO said Office 14 won’t be shipping in 2009. MS execs more than a few times last year hinted that the latest enterprise software package would be seen [...]

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Fox Interactive Loses $38M In Q2 Says NewsCorp

February 5, 2009

In a depressing earnings call today with the NewsCorp team, Rupert Murdoch outlined the $6.4 billion loss. Murdoch said “the downturn is more severe and likely longer lasting than previously thought.” and “We are implementing rigorous cost-cutting across all operations [...]

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Give Me Lunch Or Give Me Death

December 22, 2008

Fox Interactive chief Peter Levinsohn says that 2009 will be an “even rockier economic climate” and the company is taking steps to cut costs at each of their properties. Number one thing to go is part-time/contracted staff as well as FREE lunches. Don’t they know that lunch is where co-workers share ideas the most? Google [...]

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LEAK: MySpace’s Recession Plan Is To Outsource

December 5, 2008

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http://tinycomb.com/2008/12/05/myspaces-outsourcing-jobs/

MySpace, the second largest social network in the world, yet the most profitable, has made a major change in its infrasructure to increase its profitability over Facebook.
What’s this secret change? They have begun outsourcing jobs including a significant portion of development to India in a move to [...]

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