Myspace
Exclusive: Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million
Closing another chapter on one of the Internet’s most iconic properties, Myspace has been sold to to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million. Sources close to the situation said the deal is being completed today, although it has not been officially signed. Myspace’s owner, News Corp., will hold on to a very small stake of less than five percent.Myspace Acquired, CEO Out: Email From Mike Jones To Employees
From what I’m hearing it’s been a rocky morning at the social network, which was bought by Newscorp in 2005 for $580 million, as job cuts went deeper than expected . The most significant departure?
<img src="http://hypervocal.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/myspace_logo01.gif" alt="" title="myspace_logo01" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-47804" /> Ahead of the news that MySpace has been sold to Specific Media for $35 million , a fraction of the $580 million that News Corp. paid for the site six years ago, I had a flurry of exchanges with some of my former MySpace colleagues about “what could’ve been.”
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Focus on Gen Y
